lucky2hunt

Great pictures! Website looks good!

Good place to sit for gobblers too! Look at their beards!!!

Wow! Can't wait to see the pics!!! Sounds like a blast...

Very cool! 2 for 2, wow! Congrats!!!

Atta Girl!!!! Way to go Julie

Ahhhhh man, you are killing me with these pictures! I purposely have avoided this topic... I officially now have 'puppy fever'!

Great memories for sure! When our boys were that age we spent our Spring Break at Rosey every year; they still talk about all the fun times! Congrats on the the catch and for all the smiles!!!

Exciting news for you and your wife, congrats! Yep, it pays to be pleasant and cordial to all those nice ladies working at the front desks!!!

Amazing photo!!! Good luck

Fantastic picture!

Before my 2009 hunt in Africa I told my husband “let’s just go once, I’ll hunt then it’ll be out of my system”. Boy was I wrong…. I couldn’t wait to go back, the awe and wonder of the Dark Continent kept calling me and there were more animals on my wish list that I didn’t get last time. I bugged and bugged until my wonderful husband relented and said, “Book it”! The Professional Hunter we went with last time has become a wonderful friend, we never considered going with someone else. We booked a 10-day archery hunt with Zingeli Safaris and Louis Stoffberg. The flight over is tough, 15.5 hours from NYC, ouch! With all the anticipation of great hunting the flight becomes a bit more tolerable. On our list for the first camp was a Bushbuck and a Bush Pig, after a short nap, we get to it. Louis is known throughout South Africa as the “Bush Pig guru” he has had articles written in magazines about his ability to hunt the elusive bush pig. The pigs are nocturnal so you have to hunt them at night; the method he uses is a lot like how he hunts leopards (which Louis also excels at). The pig comes into feed in the pitch dark; Louis has a green light set up that he turns on low then can make it brighter. We sat in an Ameristep popup, pitch, pitch dark, I am nervous as all get out! I can hear the pigs, see them, but they sense we are there we wait for the male to make a mistake and turn broadside, after about an hour he turns, Louis tells me to draw. I do as I’m told, but there’s a problem… I can’t find my peep in the darkness; I’m bobbing my head all around but can’t find it! I letdown, make a bunch of noise doing so and the pigs bust out of there. Ugh I feel so bad, I know I have let Louis down! We head back to camp so I can get some much-needed rest. The next morning we hunted bushbuck from an elevated blind. After watching many females and young bucks come and go, I’m able to take a very nice bushbuck. continued.... After photos and lunch it’s time to take another nap, jetlag is killing us! I can’t sleep because I keep thinking of messing up the bush pig shot. I go out and start practicing my shot, I close my eyes and draw my bow, find my anchor spot, open my eyes and “bam”, there’s my peep! I shoot like that for about 50 shots, until I’m comfortable knowing that my peep doesn’t move, I do! I just need to find my anchor point and my peep will be there! We go out to the bush pig blind and wait for dark. They come in cautiously, they know something’s up, and we wait patiently, finally after over an hour the male presents a shot. I close my eyes, draw my bow, anchor, open eyes, pick a pin and squeeeeze! “Wait did I shoot under him”? They all take off; it is so quiet I hear my own heart racing. All of a sudden they come back, I hurry and try to nock and arrow but it is so dark I can’t tell which nock goes up, I’m shaking like a leaf and I can’t figure out what I’ve done wrong. As Louis looks out of the blind he realizes that all the pigs have come back…. Except one! The big male is missing! We wait for the others to finally move off on their own and get out of the blind to look for the arrow, sure enough there’s blood. Louis looks around some but it’s so thick and very dark we decide to come back in the morning. I was nervous but after watching the video it looked like a good hit, boy delicious South African wine flowed that evening by the campfire! After a longer than anticipated tracking job and with some help from a group of simply amazing trackers we find my Bushpig!!! I was so relieved. After inspection, we figured I hit a little far back on a hard quartering away shot. I was happy non the less my first ever elusive bushpig was ‘in the salt’! LOL check out the shirt!!!! We headed back to camp to pack up and move on to our next camp, another 6 hours away! There we met the owners Sarel and his wife Adel, what a great couple and a beautiful camp! continued...

That's the problem... Once is never enough!!! Practice shooting through narrow openings. The flight over and back (21-24 hrs from Phx) is a killer - one word....... Ambien!!!!!!!

Thanks to you and Peg for letting me tag along and a big thanks for the fish'n lessons!

Wow-zer!!!! Nice fish, congrats!!!

Excellent!!! Congrats on a beautiful ,hard earned trophy!

Thanks for posting Amanda! Yeah, the hike in was tough but the reward was defiantly worth it!

Sometimes we might forget how beautiful our own backyard is.... Thanks for the reminder! Gorgeous pictures Doug!

Thanks Josh! You are in for a real treat, enjoy ever second of it!!! Take lots of pictures then hurry back and share with us!

Voted!!!!

Beautiful! Congratulations!!!

Good luck! Spending more time with your wife and your kids is the biggest bonus, congratulations on the new adventure! p.s. I'm envious of all your hunting opportunities

Are there still two seats left@ the CWT table?

Very cool pic Doug!!!

Cool! Yep, good karma for sure!!!

Mthorsrud - great mounts! Awesome collection of deer!