I would hope at this stage you have in mind the animals you first wish to hunt and I would also hope you have in mind the amount of money you are prepared to invest. When I started I picked a country that was English speaking as I am very poor with languages. Next I just looked at the ads in the Safari magazine of SCI. I wrote to 6 of them asking for all information of the offers they had telling them of the time period I was interested in. When I got the material I perused all of it in detail and called some of the references they provided knowing full well they would only provide acceptable references. Then I simply picked among them the one I felt most confident with. The trip was to Zimbabwe and fulfilled all my expectations. This was before the involvement of the internet in everything. Were I doing it today I would probably follow the same procedure
