I will start at the airport.
This trip should have happened in 2020 but we all know what happened there.
This would be my first ever bow hunt so very excited added to that my fear of missing flights we arrived 4 hours before the flight. My thinking was to check bags etc. and as I was not taking a rifle no hassle to process said rifles. I was also traveling with 6 friends 5 of whom had firearms to check in.
We were traveling with Ethiopian as sporting equipment goes free if it is your second piece of baggage and I was hopping to check in get through security and enjoy a couple of pints and have a mixed grill as I dont like the food on planes. However my bow sent the staff into a tailspin as they insisted it be treated as a firearm and wanted me to fill in a firearm declaration form which was impossible to do and the processing of all the guys firearms was taking an age it was obvious the staff while trying to be helpful had not had any training or experience, I have written a complaint to Ethiopian . so now we all go through security and then to customs to do the firearms check clock ticking . When the customs arrived I told them my bow was not a firearm and then left for my flight apologising to my friends as I did not expect them to make it.
We did make the flight but then sat on tarmac for one and a half hours as airspace was crowded this was now making it impossible to make the connecting flight in Addis Ababa.
On arrival at Addis Ababa it was apparent that most of the plane was going to miss connecting flights and as we left the aircraft staff were waiting at the steps with our names so that firearms could be checked and all flights had be held so everyone got thier flights pronto. This I felt was very well organised be Ethiopian needless to say no one was interested in my bow.
Arrived at Windhoek guys did their firearms check and I picked up my bow and we met our PH,s to drive to Khomas Highland.
More to follow.
This trip should have happened in 2020 but we all know what happened there.
This would be my first ever bow hunt so very excited added to that my fear of missing flights we arrived 4 hours before the flight. My thinking was to check bags etc. and as I was not taking a rifle no hassle to process said rifles. I was also traveling with 6 friends 5 of whom had firearms to check in.
We were traveling with Ethiopian as sporting equipment goes free if it is your second piece of baggage and I was hopping to check in get through security and enjoy a couple of pints and have a mixed grill as I dont like the food on planes. However my bow sent the staff into a tailspin as they insisted it be treated as a firearm and wanted me to fill in a firearm declaration form which was impossible to do and the processing of all the guys firearms was taking an age it was obvious the staff while trying to be helpful had not had any training or experience, I have written a complaint to Ethiopian . so now we all go through security and then to customs to do the firearms check clock ticking . When the customs arrived I told them my bow was not a firearm and then left for my flight apologising to my friends as I did not expect them to make it.
We did make the flight but then sat on tarmac for one and a half hours as airspace was crowded this was now making it impossible to make the connecting flight in Addis Ababa.
On arrival at Addis Ababa it was apparent that most of the plane was going to miss connecting flights and as we left the aircraft staff were waiting at the steps with our names so that firearms could be checked and all flights had be held so everyone got thier flights pronto. This I felt was very well organised be Ethiopian needless to say no one was interested in my bow.
Arrived at Windhoek guys did their firearms check and I picked up my bow and we met our PH,s to drive to Khomas Highland.
More to follow.
