Off to Tanzania. Off-line until August 8.
Gentlemen,
In about 48 hours my son Charley and I will launch for East Africa where we will spend 22 days in the Selous searching for a big Lion, a bull Elephant with a six-foot long ivory, a big tom Leopard, and a 48 inch Cape Buffalo. This will be our fourth trip to Africa. I have been practicing with my .470 Nitro Express double rifle over the last couple days and that's an experience in itself. When it goes off it slams your shoulder with an ungodly amount of recoil and shakes the ground around you. I certainly hope that the elephant is as impressed with it's fury as I am. Charley is shooting a .375 H&H Magnum bolt action rifle which is equally impressive for a young lad of his size. The Selous is about 500 miles south of Mount Kilimanjaro and we will be hundreds of miles from the nearest telephone or Internet so I will not be able to keep up with this thread until my return to Arizona on August 8. All the best to my GT Forum friends and I'll catch back up with you early next month. :cheers
Chip
Here's a photo of Charley four years ago (age 11) with a nice Waterbuck he took in Namibia.