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I hate it when I get a craving for a nice lettuce, tomato and hippo ham sandwich and I have to wait more than a half a year to get it!

John

Steve I travelled to Namibia in January with a Spanish family on one of those we'll do it ourself deals. The old man brought some of that ham along and explained how they made it. A herd of hogs get chased around by a guy on horseback every day for about a year. Add a special diet these hogs become muscular and lean before being slaughtered. The hocks are hung in a cave and almost left to rot. The more rotton they are on the outside the better they are on the inside and the more expensive they are.

The real expensive ones cost more than caviar I believe.

The stuff he brought was not too bad actually.

Pieter

Certainly a lot of the special hams and snorkers (sausage) here are truly wonderful but that long a preparation period (esp in the African climate) would make me a tad concerned about eating it........ although I have to say, I'd prefer to eat a pork based product like that than I would a hippo based one....... I hate hippo at the best of times!

I wonder if they meant domestic hogs or domesticated javalina/wild boar?

Going slightly off topic for a moment, we get red deer and wild boar around the house here and I'm itching to whack a wild boar for Christmas.

No pictures no hunt Steve. Show us the money...

Mate the ones around the house are too quick for me to get a pic of but here's the one I hunted.

Bearing in mind the image theft that's going on, I reserve the copyright.





Portugal seems to be the best kept secret in the hunting world..... This was my first ever Iberian red deer but FWIW, it's no more than a good representative of the species. The area I hunted holds MANY larger trophies.

The animal was shot at 200 yards with an open sighted K98 Mauser in 8x57 and it was a few degrees off of a texas heart shot so in behind the ribs and out a couple of inches below the antler on the opposite side.

Very nice!

That is a pretty deer Steve. It reminds me a little of an elk.

'Fraid I've never seen an elk so can't comment however..... I enjoyed hunting that stag more than some of the buff hunts I've done.

I guess it's all about the quality of the people you're with, the stalk & the shot.

Good going there Steve. I would love to hunt one of those for myself one day.

A lot of truth spoken referring to the company you are with when hunting.

Pieter,

That area (Castelo Branco) is a hunter's paradise and game populations are fantastic (esp by 'non Africa' standards)...... it's only about a 1 hour drive from our home here but I like it so much we may well have another bout of house hunting in that area next year.

I thought that when I retired from the safari industry and left Africa, my (biggish) game hunting days were going to be over and I'd made up my mind that I'd shot my last 4 legged animal but it's just so good here, I couldn't resist it....... I guess it's a case of once a hunter, always a hunter.

I don't have any commercial interest but if anyone want to know the agent handling the hunting in the area, please send me a PM and I'll be happy to recommend them.