The season leaves Lefol with a large backlog of disappointed clients whose safaris have to be made up in Chad or elsewhere, plus many unexpected costs. The total out-of-pocket, Lefol says, is nearly a half million dollars. Also on the negative side of the ledger are unexpected problems finding a suitable place to hunt aoudad sheep. At this writing, it is not clear that a hunt for this animal will be on the safari card next year. The same is true of Lord Derby eland, which Lefol had hoped to hunt in the south of the country, along the border of Central African Republic. Problems notwithstanding, to our knowledge, none of the disappointed clients this year hold any grudge toward Lefol, or contemplate any action against him. As Barnhart put it in his report, "...Lefol tried as hard as humanly possible to assure us a quality hunt. The circumstances that arose were simply beyond his control."
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