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🗓️ 17 November 2023
⏱️ 97 minutes
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Back to the Dark Continent... This episode is raw and unedited, just as we recorded it beside a campfire along the Okavango river late one night, with lions roaring and elephants trumpeting in the background.
On the second half of our fall 2023 safari with Kowas Adventure Safaris in Namibia, my daughter Audrey shot a wonderful old kudu bull and a gnarly-horned impala. Then Austin Brown and I broke out the big-bore dangerous game rifles to hunt cape buffalo. We tracked old bachelor bull groups through the days in heat up to 102 degrees Fahrenheit, in ankle-deep sand, and shot three massive old bulls. This episode is all about the stories, folks!
The episode wraps up with a discussion of African conservation challenges and the future, including a hard, honest look at the cow elephant herds moving into the historic Caprivi Strip region and decimating the habitat.
Experiences like this only happen once in a lifetime, and we hope you enjoy the stories...
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0:00.0 | Not long ago, five hunters crouched underneath a death tarp, rain flashing against it. |
0:09.0 | As the diesel motor in the Toyota Land Cruiser roared and clawed its way through the sand on its way back to camp. |
0:17.0 | We had had an incredible day of Cape Buffalo hunting and then a |
0:21.1 | African storm swept in across the desert and was pounding around us. |
0:26.0 | And the only shelter for those of us riding the back was the tarp that they haul out, |
0:33.0 | protect the game animals that they haul out, |
0:37.0 | and sometimes, you know, gets gut matter and so forth on it. |
0:42.0 | I'm being a little bit dramatic folks, |
0:45.0 | but it was a wild afternoon |
0:48.0 | and that tarp didn't smell nearly as bad as getting cold sounded from the rain. |
0:53.6 | So we all climbed underneath. |
0:55.9 | And it's one of those unforgettable experiences. |
0:59.2 | Folks, this is coming at you raw and unedited from Namibia. If you listen you may hear the |
1:06.9 | fire crackling in the background crickets and if we're lucky we may hear some |
1:11.7 | lions roaring the next hour or so we're lucky we may hear some lions roar in the next hour or so. |
1:14.0 | We're sitting here around the fire at Mukongo camp, which means the hunter's camp, |
1:19.3 | in the Zambese region of Northern Namibia, |
1:23.2 | hunting with Jock Strauss of Kovasadventure safaris. |
1:26.5 | He's sitting here, my good friend and hunting partner Austin Brown, |
1:30.6 | my daughter Audrey and my son William. |
1:32.3 | We've all had a terrific trip trip and this is our last night here |
1:35.4 | So we just wanted to kind of wrap up the trip with some |
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