Here I am. . . Lammie "villain and crook"
Here is my side on how this went:
I am not going to bore you with a lot of detail. I'll touch on the high points for you to decide who is lying here. Attached please see the package sold, the animals hunted and the invoice he refuses to pay.
Original lodge in Zululand was no longer an option to stay at but this was not due to the sell of the lodge. This was not knew news to the hunting party of 3 ( met them in College Station to explain this 30 days before the hunt). On this point, the 3rd hunter had no complaints, paid his animals and gave us a 5 star rating. (makes you think? and this is only the beginning).
I changed their hunt location (due to unforeseen circumstances) about 30 days before they were arriving to a camp that I knew had the same high standard that we run. They paid additional plane tickets ($220 each) to this area (later I ate that cost by paying their transport back to the Zululand area). 1 day later Mr Cody decided that I was trying to trick them out of a hunting package that I sold them and he insisted to hunt Zululand.
At this point, I explained to them (again) that I will not be using my original camp down there and that I will not be able to attend the hunt and they all seemed to understand, moving the hunt to next year or cancelling the hunt was something he did not want to entertain.
3 days in to the hunt I arrived in Zululand and heard no complaints (they all had my number with an open line to me) and I even guided 1 of the hunters on a couple of occasions.
4 days into the hunt, they had shot all their animals within the package and even continued shooting some extra animals. In total they shot 23 animals in 6 days not counting misses or opportunities not taken.
The lodge was adequate, laundry was done daily. There was a water issue (burst pipe) the first night and it was sorted out (that is just how it goes in Africa). Wifi was offered to them by the PH but Cody refused it and said it was not a big deal. On top of this, the PH also offered to drive them to his house to take a shower on the 1st night.
On the pricing of animals changing, I guess he is referring to me verbally saying that any culling is about $75 outside of your package. The specific ranch they hunted (4,000 acres) did not want any additional cull animals shot at $75 per animal (his charge was $125). So they were not charged extra for the cull animals that were already in their package.
As an outfitter/PH 90% of the time you don't own the animals you are hunting so if a client was told $75 for a cull was ok, and then it changed to $125 by the ranch owner there is nothing we can do about it. I guess just not hunt them which is what Cody did. Other people in his party did go ahead and shoot additional culls for that price.
The point I am trying to make here, is that if you are a liar it will be apparent. And I am going to attach the package they bought, photos, and his invoice. And I am not going to keep checking in here to keep replying. This all started off with me refusing to discount his 2 wounded animals. And then I was threatened that he has a call in to his lawyer. I replied and said I await his call.
They were so disgruntled with the hunt, the stay and the lodge that they tipped the PH $700, and the lodge staff $300. Go figure. . .
Here is my side on how this went:
I am not going to bore you with a lot of detail. I'll touch on the high points for you to decide who is lying here. Attached please see the package sold, the animals hunted and the invoice he refuses to pay.
Original lodge in Zululand was no longer an option to stay at but this was not due to the sell of the lodge. This was not knew news to the hunting party of 3 ( met them in College Station to explain this 30 days before the hunt). On this point, the 3rd hunter had no complaints, paid his animals and gave us a 5 star rating. (makes you think? and this is only the beginning).
I changed their hunt location (due to unforeseen circumstances) about 30 days before they were arriving to a camp that I knew had the same high standard that we run. They paid additional plane tickets ($220 each) to this area (later I ate that cost by paying their transport back to the Zululand area). 1 day later Mr Cody decided that I was trying to trick them out of a hunting package that I sold them and he insisted to hunt Zululand.
At this point, I explained to them (again) that I will not be using my original camp down there and that I will not be able to attend the hunt and they all seemed to understand, moving the hunt to next year or cancelling the hunt was something he did not want to entertain.
3 days in to the hunt I arrived in Zululand and heard no complaints (they all had my number with an open line to me) and I even guided 1 of the hunters on a couple of occasions.
4 days into the hunt, they had shot all their animals within the package and even continued shooting some extra animals. In total they shot 23 animals in 6 days not counting misses or opportunities not taken.
The lodge was adequate, laundry was done daily. There was a water issue (burst pipe) the first night and it was sorted out (that is just how it goes in Africa). Wifi was offered to them by the PH but Cody refused it and said it was not a big deal. On top of this, the PH also offered to drive them to his house to take a shower on the 1st night.
On the pricing of animals changing, I guess he is referring to me verbally saying that any culling is about $75 outside of your package. The specific ranch they hunted (4,000 acres) did not want any additional cull animals shot at $75 per animal (his charge was $125). So they were not charged extra for the cull animals that were already in their package.
As an outfitter/PH 90% of the time you don't own the animals you are hunting so if a client was told $75 for a cull was ok, and then it changed to $125 by the ranch owner there is nothing we can do about it. I guess just not hunt them which is what Cody did. Other people in his party did go ahead and shoot additional culls for that price.
The point I am trying to make here, is that if you are a liar it will be apparent. And I am going to attach the package they bought, photos, and his invoice. And I am not going to keep checking in here to keep replying. This all started off with me refusing to discount his 2 wounded animals. And then I was threatened that he has a call in to his lawyer. I replied and said I await his call.
They were so disgruntled with the hunt, the stay and the lodge that they tipped the PH $700, and the lodge staff $300. Go figure. . .
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