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  1. LopeHunter

    Recently hunted in South Africa. Anyone want a recap?

    Where to go in Africa? I set aside time during multiple weekends to read multiple inspiring, vibrant African hunt recaps involving several countries. Many of the recaps brought to life mesmerizing adventures where big game species roamed on fenceless open expanses. Incredible! The adventures...
  2. LopeHunter

    Recently hunted in South Africa. Anyone want a recap?

    At some point around 2000, cable television added hunting shows including a couple focused on hunting Africa. This is also around the time I began to surf the web looking for bulletin board hunting websites. I eventually realized my understanding of a modern African safari was quite flawed. The...
  3. LopeHunter

    Recently hunted in South Africa. Anyone want a recap?

    Eventually, I was a sophomore in high school and Mr. Hoffmeyer assigned Hemingway’s tale of Francis Macomber to our American Literature class. Africa was back in my life. Africa began to have a personality. I read the Snows of Kilimanjaro a year later. And yet, once again my vivid daydreams of...
  4. LopeHunter

    Recently hunted in South Africa. Anyone want a recap?

    By the start of 5th Grade, in 1972, I had been gifted a pristine Ithaca 20-gauge side-by-side and, when I could wrangle up a pocket full of shells, I was eventually harvesting squirrels, rabbits, doves, ducks and geese on the outskirts of town. My woodsmanship was improving, too, from hunting...
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    Recently hunted in South Africa. Anyone want a recap?

    Things were different when I was a kid, too. I grew up in a family comfortable with firearms. A shotgun was a tool in the same way as a chainsaw or a sharp knife. You handle these tools with care or risk unintended but foreseeable harm. I shot my first highly lethal weapon at age 6 when, with...
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    Recently hunted in South Africa. Anyone want a recap?

    Getting to Africa was a glacially slow process for me. Fifty-two years trickled out of my life’s hourglass from the autumn of 5th grade when I vowed to hunt in Africa until I watched my first sunrise rising over the ranch the day before my odometer rolled over to 63 years. Don’t be me. Go...
  7. LopeHunter

    Recently hunted in South Africa. Anyone want a recap?

    Let's get into a proper recap. I have my eye on a new camera lens and have the word count turned on now. I recently returned from my first hunting adventure in Africa. This trip will also my last time hunting in Africa. Yes, I am boldly stating this declaration which has become a falsehood for...
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    Recently hunted in South Africa. Anyone want a recap?

    The tribe has spoken. Let me get to work on recap. Here are a couple of photographs to get the ball rolling. First picture: We are dragging a small tree over miles of dirt roads to set the table for looking for fresh Cape buffalo tracks the next morning. The amount of snake trails crossing the...
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    Recently hunted in South Africa. Anyone want a recap?

    I hunted in Africa for the first time earlier this year. As an old guy who now finds flat lands more enticing than the more exhilerating high mountain adventures. There are over 10,000 threads on just elk hunting at Hunttalk and less than 1,000 threads on non-American hunting of which Africa is...
  10. LopeHunter

    Turkey encounters

    On a moonless night an hour before first light on a mid-november morning in the Midwest, I climbed up into a ladder stand about 15' off the ground in a big oak tree so could rifle hunt the wind while looking down to a creek which wound through the bottom of a hollow. In about 45 minutes the...
  11. LopeHunter

    Life insurance question

    My wife and I had term insurance up until were both retired. We now have $0 life insurance. The rate at which our term insurance premiums were rising post-age 55 meant the only way to win was to die within our first 10 years of retirement. Two of our parents lived into their 80s and the other...
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    College students Living at Home

    A lot of the college experience is outside the classroom. Grades matter though more so if pursuing a career where GPA is a critical data point or if will want additional education beyond the current school. I just attended my 45th high school reunion. Lots of ways to define success. Wealth...
  13. LopeHunter

    Help launch the North American Pronghorn Foundation - GoFundMe

    Donated. God speed.
  14. LopeHunter

    To “The Rooftop of The World” for Ibex in Tajikistan

    Amazing recap. Congrats on the journey and experiences. Thanks for sharing.
  15. LopeHunter

    Drew my 1st Montana Speed Goat 🐐 Tag

    I shot a pronghorn buck with my 338 Win Mag shooting 250 grain at a mere 60 yards. Turns out the bullet I sent downrange does not tend to expand well at those speeds at that range when passing through thin hide while threading the ribs on each side of the lungs. Let the air out of the lungs so...
  16. LopeHunter

    Shank it? or Crank it? Only the Billy knows

    Oh, my summer child. He is playing chess, we are playing checkers. The game bags will not be full of Cliff bars as either they will have goat meat or each bag will be shanked and useless for holding anything ever again.
  17. LopeHunter

    Shank it? or Crank it? Only the Billy knows

    Now you are just twisting the knife in those of us that bring tag soup off the mountain while you are packing "lots of food" in bloody game bags off the mountain. Have some mercy on us!!
  18. LopeHunter

    Charlie Hustle

    Ted Williams lost multiple seasons which were shorter seasons in his era. He was not injured but rather was active military during war. I like Ted better as a hitter. Ted had more hits, walks and homeruns per plate appearance. Won the triple crown twice and has a higher career batting average...
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    Montana's Impossible Housing Situation

    Median is the center most number when arranged from lowest to highest home sale. Say 5 homes sold. 4 at $100,000 and 1 at $600,000. Average price would be $200,000 since $1,000,000 of sales occurred for 5 houses. The median would be $100,000. Median is more useful as a statistics when a small...
  20. LopeHunter

    Someone got lucky

    I do not like to bring it up but I shanked my truck I was so upset during a big game hunt. I looked around at first but could not recall where I set up my tent so the window took a stab with the pointy end of my trusty old KA-BAR.

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