Hunted in Namibia last 2 years. Flew into J'berg with my rifles both times. First time did not use rifle permit service and the SAP officers blatantly ignored us and had to wait until all PH and rifle services had cleared their clients only to have the 3 SAP officers decide that they needed to take 15-20 minute break while sitting their looking at us but would not process our rifles-so it took over 1 hour to clear rifles. Flight was 2.5 hours late so that extra 1 hour at the end of the flight was a really long 60 minutes.
This year I used Henry Rifle services and got rifles cleared within 10 minutes. Another client of Henry Rifle services had the wrong serial # on his Form 4457 and it started out as a disaster, but Anna from Henry Rifle service was able to resolve the problem and SAP released the rifle after a few minutes of discussion.
Well worth the cost of having Henry's Rifle service get my rifle import permit preapproved.
