We did not hunt on Sunday August 10th. We had a day of rest. On this day we went to a place called the “Ox Wagons”. It took us about an hour by truck through rough mountain trails to get there, but boy was it beautiful!!! And the Lamb Chops, Chicken and Bacon over the open flame was awesome!!!!

Here was our view from the Ox Wagons!

I hiked up this hill above and took a photo of us cooking at the OX Wagons

Here is Aubrey Cooking lunch!

And Here are the Happy Campers on one of the Ox Wagons!

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Here is the man that put us on the animals in South Africa! He was our PH (we call them guides in the U.S.).

His nickname is Beans, he told me his real name, but I could not pronounce it and I understand why they named him beans in grade school.

He was a relentless hunter. Once he spotted our game, he would not give up until we had our animal! Beans was an excellent hunter and an all around great guy. What I found funny was that he was a BIG Cher fan! I’ve listened to Cher, but after the past couple of weeks I’ve become to tolerate Cher a little more!!!

Thanks for the great time Beans! Hopfully I can make it back next year!

I would like to suggest Tollie’s African Safaris. This place is FIRST CLASS. We had wonderful accomodations and excellent meals. Most importantly his PHs are second to none! They know their game and I can tell you first hand, they will not stop until you get your harvest.

You can’t go wrong with Tollie if you want to hunt South Africa!!!!

Check out his website at www.safari-in-africa.com

Made it home safely. The flight was long and grueling, but I made it. 

My total travel time from the ranch to the North of Somerset East, South Africa to my front doorstep was just under 36 hours. The worst part of the trip for me was the 18 hour flight from Johannesburg to Washington, D.C. I took a sleeping pill hopefully trying to get some rest, but it only yielded me a couple of hours of sleep. So for the majority of the flight I watched a marathon of Prison Break. What an awesome TV series. I had never seen it before, but now I’m hooked. I was able to watch 14 of the 21 episodes they had on the plane, so I need to find the other episodes at a movie rental to catch up with all the action!

The best part about the trip home was my family was at the airport to pick me up!!!!! Out of all my travels I have never had the luxury of my wife and kids to pick me up and this was fun. 

Since I got back to Raleigh at 10 a.m. we stopped for lunch in Rocky Mount at a very special place for the kids!!! My 5 year old had been begging to go to Chuck E. Cheese for the past couple of months so that’s where we ate lunch. We had fun playing games and eating pizza. 

After the 2 hour lunch break we made our way home.

We got home at 2 p.m. My goal was to try to stay awake until 10 p.m. I had only gotten 2 hours of sleep the past 48 hours and it was very hard to keep my eyes open and I wanted to take a nap bad. I lost my battle to sleep Saturday night at 8:30. I was watching COPS and I laid down on the couch!!!! The next thing I knew I woke up Sunday morning at 4:30 and finally crawled into my bed.

Sunday morning my wife said she tried to wake me up several times, but I did not budge!

Since I have a few hours before the flight to Senegal I will post a few pics from last week.

Here’s a pic of Low income establishment

I’m sitting in the airport in Johannesburg, South Africa. I’ve been traveling for 7 hours so far. 4 hour truck ride and the rest by plane.  I have a 4 hour layover here and then the grueling flight to Washington, DC.

The internet went down the last few days at the lodge so when I get home I will post about the last few days in camp.

We went hunting for Sable this morning. The weatherman said the wind was going to pick up late morning and start blowing about 40 MPH and it did. 

We spotted a group of sable this morning at 8:00 and moved in on them. We followed along with them until finally at 11:15 Pam took this nice Sable with her Matthews bow.

One of the most exciting hunts I’ve ever been on. 

It’s been a long day and I have to get up in 4 hours so I will post a story later, but here is a picture for you guys!

Today we went after Black Wildebeest and Springbok and just happened to harvest a nice Mountain Reedbuck that we came across while we were after the Springbok.

It was brutally windy and very cold yesterday. We hunted some tough terrain and were up and down 6,000 foot mountains all day. Talk about wearing me out!!!!! Plus I have several blisters on my feet as trophies of my hunt. I have been wearing flip-flops the past 5 weeks and I sure paid for it yesterday!

We had a great time and Kandi made some awesome shots.

Kandi’s Black Wildebeest

Kandi’s Mountain Reedbuck

Kandi’s Springbok

The terrain we hunted in

Kandi Kisky is on her first African hunt and Friday we went out after Blesbuck.  This terrain was more open than the Waterbuck hunt that Pam did. We glassed until we found some Blesbuck laying in the shade. We stalked from bush to bush until we got to within 200 yards. After we set up one of the, Blesbuck spotted us and stood up and looked at us for a couple of minutes. Then it snorted and the one we were after stood up. That’s when Kandi drilled him!!!!

Here is a picture of Kandi’s Blesbuck