Written By: Lloyd Kimmen
As Northwest flight 222 lifted of the tarmac from Detroit Metro Airport, we were on our way to New Zealand, the ”We“ , meaning my wife Sue and I. We have been married 21 years, our children, Carly and Shane, now considered adults, (though sometimes I wonder), and though I’ve gone on many hunting trips, mostly in the US and Canada, sometimes by myself, the times I asked her if she would like to go along, she would mostly look at me as though I just escaped from the local mental asylum, and say “I don’t think so”.
I guess it all started from the Detroit Chapter, Safari Club International Wild Game Dinner a couple years ago. There were many Outfitters there with pictures and video’s running of the hunts they offer. I was talking to people from Africa, Australia, Europe, along with many from US and Canada. While walking by an outfitters table from New Zealand, we both had to just stop and stare, totally entranced by the incredible beautiful scenery we where seeing on the video. My wife Sue turned to me and said,” How come you never go hunting any place like that? I would go there!” So I kind of dismissed it, saying,” It’s not no $2500.00 deer hunt, and probably really expensive”. But in my mind I could see us both, Sue with the cameras, stalking Red Stag, Wapiti (which is what they call Elk) and Fallow Deer. I’ve always wanted a really nice Elk, and though I’ve been to the “Hotspots” in the US & Canada, I’ve came home empty handed, seeing only small Bulls, and the outfitters would always say,” Should have been here last week“. [Read Full Story]
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