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10th NOV 2022
KING OF MY DREAMS
by Frank Vannier
06th NOV 2022
AQUATIC CHASE
by Xavier Vannier
03rd MARCH 2020
UNSUSPECTED CHARGES
by Frank Vannier
10th November 2022 | in Hunting Chronicles | by Frank Vannier
KING OF MY DREAMS
My tears plunge me in a complex moral disorder. Introspective sorrow. Doubt. Immeasurable joy. Everything that makes our passion for hunting vibrate within us.
Forgive me O King of my dreams…
09th February 2020 | in Hunting Chronicles | by Frank Vannier
THE LAND OF THE PYGMIES
The Dornier aircraft was flying over an endless green ocean, when a tiny luminous stark contoured rectangle appeared: the air strip, in the middle of nowhere…
12th July 2018 | in Hunting Chronicles | by Xavier Vannier
HERITAGE OF A PASSION
What I will remember the most during this first safari, are the tears of my father. Those that translate the pride, the transmission of an ancestral heritage, of a family know-how for 4 generations…
06th November 2022 | in Hunting Chronicles | by Xavier Vannier
AQUATIC CHASE
Flies slice through the air with an almost bewitching hiss. A couple of Pel’s fishing owls are echoing. A hippo growls timidly whilst a hyena sneers a few hundred meters away. I cannot help but think: is she laughing at us?
30th May 2019 | in Hunting Chronicles | by Frank Vannier
RETURN TO THE FOREST
Elephants, bongos, dwarf buffaloes, sitatungas, gorillas, chimpanzees, giant forest hogs, red river hogs, duikers, etc. I am delighted by so many signs of their presence…
20th June 2018 | in Hunting Chronicles | by Frank Vannier
3 Days 3 Giant Elands
This story I share is unique in my experience. Indeed, I have never seen the opportunity on a Lord Derby Eland be repeated 3 days in a row in my lifetime. Unbelievable…
03rd March 2020 | in Hunting Chronicles | by Frank Vannier
UNSUSPECTED CHARGES
I remember of some of the most unusual charges I have ever had, and this is enough to make my loyal clients question my entire reputation…
21st October 2018 | in Hunting Chronicles | by Frank Vannier
THE GHOST ANTELOPE
I lifted my binoculars up to spot two Hartebeests, calmly grazing… A little further, a darker mass. I took a few steps to the side to have a better look. A Lord Derby Eland was standing at 300 yards ! I instinctively squat down, so does all the team.
10th November 2022 | in Hunting Chronicles | by Frank Vannier
KING OF MY DREAMS
My tears plunge me in a complex moral disorder. Introspective sorrow. Doubt. Immeasurable joy. Everything that makes our passion for hunting vibrate within us.
Forgive me O King of my dreams…
06th November 2022 | in Hunting Chronicles | by Xavier Vannier
AQUATIC CHASE
Flies slice through the air with an almost bewitching hiss. A couple of Pel’s fishing owls are echoing. A hippo growls timidly whilst a hyena sneers a few hundred meters away. I cannot help but think: is she laughing at us?
03rd March 2020 | in Hunting Chronicles | by Frank Vannier
UNSUSPECTED CHARGES
I remember of some of the most unusual charges I have ever had, and this is enough to make my loyal clients question my entire reputation…
09th February 2020 | in Hunting Chronicles | by Frank Vannier
THE LAND OF THE PYGMIES
The Dornier aircraft was flying over an endless green ocean, when a tiny luminous stark contoured rectangle appeared: the air strip, in the middle of nowhere…
30th May 2019 | in Hunting Chronicles | by Frank Vannier
RETURN TO THE FOREST
Elephants, bongos, dwarf buffaloes, sitatungas, gorillas, chimpanzees, giant forest hogs, red river hogs, duikers, etc. I am delighted by so many signs of their presence…
21st October 2018 | in Hunting Chronicles | by Frank Vannier
THE GHOST ANTELOPE
I lifted my binoculars up to spot two Hartebeests, calmly grazing… A little further, a darker mass. I took a few steps to the side to have a better look. A Lord Derby Eland was standing at 300 yards ! I instinctively squat down, so does all the team.
12th July 2018 | in Hunting Chronicles | by Xavier Vannier
HERITAGE OF A PASSION
What I will remember the most during this first safari, are the tears of my father. Those that translate the pride, the transmission of an ancestral heritage, of a family know-how for 4 generations…
20th June 2018 | in Hunting Chronicles | by Frank Vannier
3 Days 3 Giant Elands
This story I share is unique in my experience. Indeed, I have never seen the opportunity on a Lord Derby Eland be repeated 3 days in a row in my lifetime. Unbelievable…