After a 16 hr flight from Joburg to Atlanta, unfortunately I'm back home. This trip turned out to be more than I ever could have imagined. Final talley was 7 different types of birds taken (3 kinds of ducks), 86 boxes of shells over 4 days, and one sore shoulder. We killed egyption geese, ducks, guinea fowl, francolin, doves, and also did some pest control for the farmers and killed crows and pigeons as well. My favorite hunts were the driven Guinea fowl, and Francolin over the dogs. Those were also the toughest hunts. One morning hunt on Francolin produced only two shootable birds and we completly wiffed on both. Unfortunately I don't have any good pictures of the Francolin on my iPhone, but I have Francolin headed to the taxidermist. Just like here in the states, timing can be everything. The Francolin hunting was tough due to the maze still being mostly in, but we still managed to bag 11 Francolin. For those of you wondering, nothing in Africa is ever wasted (well, with the exception of the crows and pigeons which are pests). The trackers took most of the edible birds while the doves would go the local schools. When I say nothingis wasted, NOTHING is wasted. On our last day as we were leaving camp for the airport, locals were on the side of the road butchering a cow that had been hit the night before by a car.
