First impressions

       My first hunt is over but there is no time to rest. We were in a Game Management Area about 12-15 hours drive from Nchila Wildlife Reserve (which is my uncle's place where I am now) and we finished that hunt on Wednesday morning, the next hunt started this morning (Friday) and we had a bunch of shopping to do in town when we went through. We arrived back Thursday night and now I will be trying to balance editing the last client's video in the evenings while filming the new hunters during the day. It's going to be pretty tiring I think!
        The hunt I have just finished was a mixed bag of emotions for me because I really had no idea what I was doing and so I was a bit nervous I was going to mess something up really bad, which I did sort of. While downloading the film from the day before, I accidentally deleted a whole day of video, and that day he had shot three animals! That kind of ruined part of the hunt for me, but other than that it was really quite amazing! Within two weeks we got charged by elephants 4 or 5 times, had lions within 2 feet of where we were hiding in a blind, had different lions stalk us like we were a meal for them, had a diuker (small deer) run into the side of our Land Cruiser, accidentally stop our vehicle on top of a hyena sleeping in a field (at which stage he woke up and started banging on the bottom of the car, so we backed off of it and shot it) watched elephants sleep within 15 yards, and a whole lot more!! So I can't say it wasn't exciting, in fact I enjoyed it quite a bit! When we would leave the camp to go hunting in the morning there would be ice on the seat on the back of the cruiser (where I sit) and we would drive around until we saw some game, and so that was really cold!!! I will probably be able to post in more depth in a few weeks, because I think that there will be a break after this hunter leaves.