Will happen at least twice in any given day on this trip. I don’t believe in bad luck so I will just say that this has been the most “unusual” hunting experience I think any of us have ever had.
Out of the 4 pickups taken to camp, we have had 3 casualties; lions have learned to climb trees and many of the animals have been chased out of the area due to neighboring hunting concessions being highly worked along with the problem of a lion hunt happening nearby which has changed the animals behavior patterns (not in our favor).
I can not begin to tell you all the things that have gone wrong but the most important thing is that (as of now) we are all healthy and well. As far as the hunting goes it has been difficult at best, sabotaged at worse. We all sit, speechless at the end of the day, completely perplexed at the way this hunt has gone. Thankfully speechless doesn’t last long with our group and we shake off the bad tidings of the day around the fire with any laughs we can find. Still, there has been a tension in the air as we wonder what in the world the next day will bring. No one dares say out loud, “It has to go uphill from here because it can’t get any worse than this!”
In the spirit of positivism we will not be going home empty handed. Along with our memories thus far we each have a trophy to commemorate the trip.
That is why it is called hunting and not killing, I would like to write a little more but an unexpected meeting just popped up. Those tusks would look great in my office. Keep safe and have fun, I am jealous.