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| News - Paola | |||
| Written by Bob Harrington | |||
| Friday, 18 September 2009 08:00 | |||
It was “the hunt of a lifetime,” Paul Williams of rural Paola said when describing his safari to Namibia in Africa the last two weeks of July. They hunted out of the Omujeve Hunting Safaris. Omujeve means “hunter” in the local Hereo language, consequently the hunting contractor was “Hunter Hunting Safaris.”  Williams is a noted local sportsman and has several big game trophies already in his trophy room at his residence near 327th Street and Quivira Road southeast of Paola. This was his first hunting trip outside North America. Williams and his hunting companion, Brian McCullough of Helena, Mont., each harvested 10 exceptional trophy animals on the 11-day hunt. Williams scored on zebra, warthog, Eland, Kudu, Gemsbok, Hartebeest, Blesbok, black and blue wildebeest and spring buck. “The big surprise was the cold weather,” Williams said. “(It was) 25 to 30 degrees at night (and) 40s during the day.” “We were in the mountains most of the time,” he said, “(hunting on) 30,000 acres of fenced and another 26,000 free range.” They also hunted to the south two days near the Kalahari Desert on free range land. While the hunters were primarily interested in bringing home trophies (head mounts and hides) the meat did not go to waste. Some of the meat was sold and some was given to the area natives, Williams said. The hunters also ate a portion of the meat. It will be some time before their trophy mounts arrive at their residences. It takes about a year to get the mounts completed and shipped. Williams was high in his praise of the accommodations at Omujeve Hunting Safaris. “The food was gourmet, the rooms were big and very nice, the service was hand and foot, all the people at Omujeve Hunting Safaris were top of the line in every way,” he said. “Our professional guide has become a personal friend and Richard, the video man, is a pro at his job.” Williams is no amateur hunter. He has been hunting some 64 years starting at the age of six hunting rabbits and squirrels. From the .22 caliber rifle he has advanced to the 300 Winchester magnum using a 180 grain bullet to take all of his animals in Africa. “Brian is going back in 2011 for a leopard,” Williams said, “so I will have to keep him in line.”  Williams did not reveal the cost of the hunting trip, but he did say the animals prices ranged from the warthog at $350 to the Eland at $1,800, and airfare was about $2,000. The cost was immaterial, because as Williams put it, “It was the hunt of a lifetime, and I really enjoyed it!”
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To each his own. I am happy for this hunter. However, I for one am sorry to see a beautiful Zebra be slaughtered all for a rug. I know, to some this is quite the thing to do and in general, hunting for warthogs and etc., is okay but a Zebra to me is just like a horse with stripes.
 Anyway, sorry to see this in the paper but I guess it is newsworthy for some. Thanks for the news story! 1
September 19, 2009
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