We are a lot alike. Would be very happy just to take photos too, in fact if I go back to Africa may do that. Always take some time off to do that anyway when on a hunting safari.
But get to hunt enough in Montana with my own rifles (and surrounding states and provinces where I can drive, rather than risking an airline screw-up) that it doesn't bother me to hunt with something else on an assignment-type hunt. In fact I'm happy to have a rifle waiting for me there, rather than going through the hassle of traveling with them, especially internationally. But then I'm also at the stage of life where I'm planning to hunt more locally with family heirloom rifles, instead of rifles I bought or built--which will be just as important as the hunt, perhaps more so, though the sum will be greater than the parts.
“Montana seems to me to be what a small boy would think Texas is like from hearing Texans.” John Steinbeck
