Planning a Safari: Logistics, Preparation, and Crucial Skills
Backcountry Hunting Podcast
Joseph von Benedikt
4.9 • 1.1K Ratings
🗓️ 10 November 2023
⏱️ 94 minutes
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Summary
Recorded live and raw in the field, this episode takes us to Africa. In addition to lots of great hunting stories, we address safari research, logistics, planning, and prep with the help of my long-time hunting partner and world traveler Austin Brown.
Plus, Namibian Professional Hunter Jacques Strauss of Kowas Hunting Safaris talks us through pre-hunt practice and skills crucial to success in the African bush.
My kids Audrey (age 15) and William (age 13, our very own Backcountry Apprentice) get to experience the Dark Continent and hunt plains game for the first time. Plus my hunting pardner Austin Brown and I hunt leopard and for an elusive giant kudu bull.
This is an account of the first half of our safari... including a once-in-many-lifetimes close daylight encounter with a big male leopard.
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| 0:00.0 | Very few places in this world have the allure of the dark continent, which is of course one of those popular names for Africa. |
| 0:11.0 | And I'm here in one of my my own personal favorite places in the world with |
| 0:16.8 | two of my favorite people and a couple of good friends. The favorite people are |
| 0:20.5 | my daughter Audrey and my son William and then I've got Austin Brown |
| 0:25.0 | my hunting partner here and Jock Strauss the head outfitter at Kovas hunting |
| 0:31.8 | safaris in Namibia. |
| 0:33.6 | We've been hunting together for a decade now |
| 0:35.8 | and it's one of my favorite places to come |
| 0:38.3 | and some of my favorite people to hunt with. |
| 0:40.5 | And we have some stories for you today folks. |
| 0:44.0 | Thanks for tuning in. I'm Joseph von Benedict and this is the backcountry hunting |
| 0:48.0 | podcast. We're going to talk a little bit about |
| 0:51.0 | Safari planning, prep, and logistics, common mistakes and crucial skills, and just |
| 0:58.0 | some of the simple advantages of hunting Africa. |
| 1:02.0 | It's not that expensive in the grand scheme of things. |
| 1:05.0 | You tend to have a lot of success and get to experience a very extraordinary |
| 1:10.0 | cultural with a culture and a lot of natural history here. I don't know if you can hear some of the birds in the background. |
| 1:17.0 | It's early summer here in Namibia and it's the opposite of you know what we're at in my home country in Idaho where it's getting real cold and starting to snow a lot. |
| 1:29.0 | So kind of a fun escape to the warm country. |
| 1:34.0 | Long days where ours are getting shorter, |
| 1:36.0 | theirs are getting longer. |
| 1:38.0 | Very, very cool place and time to be here. |
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