African Experience (lots of pics)

[Bear Heart]

This thread is great.  Do you need special permits to be camping out and killing small game like that?

[Over&Under]

The Hunt of a Lifetime!!!!!  Congratulations to you guys for that experience!!!

[tradtusker]

Originally posted by gregg dudley:
If you are going to take the time to line up your hunting buddies in a shot that allows you to get a wild woman in pink hair in the frame then you should zoom in a little more.  Great hunt.  Great pics.

wild woman with pink hair is my sister, we are a wild bunch    :D

[Ned]

Thanks guys. I too just found this thread and read every word and the photography is outstanding. You have rekindled my desire for another African hunt. I made my 5th trad bowhunting trip to South Africa since 2003 last July and thought it would probably be my last as I am now 70 going on 18. It certainly is addictive. Live while you are alive.

[LEOPARD]

Thanks for the comment Ned!     It was a trip I will never forget! We had such a blast!   :D  
Thanks for the email too!     I'll send you an email this week!

[gregg dudley]

LOL, Andy!      

I hope she will get a kick out of the comment.  Anyone with pink hair has got to have a great sense of humor!    

[tradtusker]

she'l be chuffed you noticed Gregg    :cool:

 

she's not a bowhunter but she's killed a heap of game with the rifle

[Trad Man 25]

Dang i'm soo skinny, is that a sign of a bad hunter.

I blame the bow, i don't now many guys shooting Hills and not going hungry      

[tradtusker]

not many guys that can hit a Hare between the ear's either mate       top shooting

[LEOPARD]

I don't know many guys that have determination like u did with that Hill, James! Hell, I'd have given up and picked my Silvertip up LONG ago! haha!    

[Benny Nganabbarru]

There's something magic about those Hills, at least to me.

That's a wonderful shot, James.

What are the specs on your Hill?

Cheers!

[Trad Man 25]

   I got a few Heroic pictures of me and the bow from the Africa Trip, i guess i can post one or two of them.
I did my time in those hides with that hill and only thing i could have shot was a Eland,
(passed up the shot)  last thing i wanted was to put an arrow 2" deep in the side of an Eland.

Out of my million shots i bagged 2 rabbits  

Ben, its a Take Down Cheeta, 70" 65lds at 28" im to 29draw and with some respectible scratches, dings and holes, this bows seen some action.

I think Hills are tanks as the best of times, and at 65+lds its to much, thus short draw ect makes for poor shooting.
Am wanting to buy a take down Hill Blank, + - 50lbs, I think that will help alot.  
But on the current exchange rates,its no good. I have to wait for my money to be good agains the US$.
 :(   :(  


James

[Trad Man 25]

As for the magic, there is some thing nice about how its just a stick and string,
And if you run out of arrows, these take downs make really good bashing sticks.      

[Trad Man 25]

This Rabbit took one to the neck,  got to save the meat right,        
 

   

[Trad Man 25]

I think its been a while since a Hill as seen once of these, it was just a little out of my price range, next time    

 

[tradtusker]

you got that pic of the hill on the Elephant tracks?

[tradtusker]

here's the one  

[Trad Man 25]

I was going to post another one of but my computer keeps  crashing when i resize pic, ill do the past again when i get home

[robtattoo]

Hi James    I've been dying to see your pics on this thread mate! Awesome so far, keep 'em coming  :D

[LEOPARD]

Yeah, good to see some pics bud!    I'm having drawl symptoms, I need to go back to my home land!  :D