Archive for the ‘African game’ Category

On Safari: Namibia

March 16, 2010 African game

Frequent Doubletough contributor Beach Billy forwarded this photos from a friend who finally made a trek to Africa to pursue game dreams are made of….and what a really cool New Years card is made of! His cousin, her husband and their son hunted with Jamy Traut of Eden Safaris in Namibia: Eden is located east [...]

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Billy Needs A Bigger Living Room

July 14, 2009 African game

Doubletough friend Billy of Wrightsville Beach, North Carolina let us know today that the skins from two zebras taken last summer finally arrived from Africa.  A frequent contributor to Doubletough Outdoors, Billy is a fine Southern sportsman when he’s not brokering yachts and sportfishing boats.  This particular adventure pretty much fell in his lap as [...]

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Adansonia Safaris With Beach Billy

March 17, 2009 African game

Resident world traveler, Billy Walkowiak of Wrightsville Beach, North Carolina, is a boat broker by day and luckiest sumbuck I know.  In the past 30 days he’s been sailfishing in Costa Rica and Palm Beach, Florida but the pinnacle of fortune has to be his summer ’08 trip to South Africa.  A friend won a [...]

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Bring Enough Gun

March 9, 2009 African game, Video

Nothing is more hair-raising than following wounded game into the bush, whether it’s black bear in Maine, grizzlies in the Yukon, or bison on a Dakota prairie. In Africa, it takes on an whole new meaning. Check out this video of a PH and his client tracking a lion, finding it, and what happens as [...]

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Where The Wild Things Roam

February 15, 2009 African game, Hunting

Beach Billy is a Doubletough guy who has the uncanny ability to find himself in the darndest places.  Whether it’s at the horsetrack with ex-NY Governor Spitzer or catching a last minute ride to Costa Rica for sailfish, this guy knows more folks and always finds a seat in an adventure.   Most recently he [...]

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Saddling Up In Africa

October 7, 2008 African game

Doubletough contributor Billy “Bertram” Walkowiak of Wrightsville Beach, North Carolina knocked down this zebra earlier in the year on a safari with Adansonia Safaris.  Based in South Africa, Billy (the good ol’ boy on the left) took one other zebra during his trip along with several other big game.  Billy is currently booking safaris for [...]

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