Tim showed up. I have worked with Hendrik from Matwetwe Safaris for almost fourteen years now. We do many hunting trade shows together and this was another one of those weekends. I had just been at Hendrik’s place in South Africa six months earlier with Ron G. on his lion bowhunt, and had a great time experiencing that with Ron and Hendrik in the lower Kalahari of South Africa. In that same camp on a plains-game hunt was Tim. We hit it off and stayed in contact with one another. Tim stopped by to see Hendrik and me at the Outdoorama, said he wanted to hunt Cape buffalo, and put money down. As he handed Hendrik the check for deposit he looked at me and said, “Dave, I want you in camp. Please make plans on joining me for this hunt.” I told him to twist my arm so I at least had a good excuse of bodily harm to tell my wife the reason I had to go back again… and again.
