Buffalo Addiction?

12 April 2007, 21:16

N'gagi

Buffalo Addiction?

The AR Buffalo thread got me to thinking. Guys like Saeed and others are just buffalo nuts (sorry for the pun), and others are elephant nuts, like Bill S and others. At first glance, one might assume it's price, but that's not true at all. in fact, one can shoot a tuskless cow for the same trophy fee as a buffalo, and pay plains game daily rates to boot!

So, why is it, that so many people prefer buffalo hunting over elephant hunting? Is it the trophy? The chase, the quantity of buff vs ele?

Just pondering...

12 April 2007, 21:21

500grains

quote:
Originally posted by N'gagi:
Tone can shoot a tuskless cow for the same trophy fee as a buffalo, and pay plains game daily rates to boot!

A lot of places are now quoting $700 or $750 per day x 10 days + $2750 trophy fee for a cow ele.
If you want a 2nd cow, it is 10 more days of dailies plus another trophy fee.

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There are at least 3 things I prefer about hunting ele over buff:

1. Lots of tracking/walking. Even a hunt for dagga boy buffs is more leisurely.

2. When an elephant is challenged, he/she walks right over to the hunter and returns the challenge. Buffalo prefer to run away (cowards!).

3. Elephant are bigger.

12 April 2007, 21:24

ROSCOE

If I had the money I would hunt buffalo every year...I find it the best rush for my Money. I have only hunted Jumbo once...glad I did it, however to me it was not as much fun as going after buffalo.

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12 April 2007, 22:45

NitroX

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Originally posted by Nickudu:
"Beyond This Point Are Monsters..."

Funny but

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From my few hunts on each (2 on buff, 1 on cow ele), I think cow elephant hunting far exceeds buffalo. Especially when the ele herds act up before or after the ele is down.

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13 April 2007, 00:14

dakota45056

Hunting cape buffalo is and can be a challenge, but hunting herd elephants or more selective ( a tuskless) is really stimulating. With the walking and the stalking in the jesse, it seems like it is closer to the way hunting was historically done.

That said, I also think that tracking the male lion in open range would also be an original hunt. Since I took mine over bait, my opportunity is lost forever since the lion hunting has taken a big price upturn. But this also could be a very exciting hunt IMO,

Dak

13 April 2007, 00:33

JudgeG

I'm so old and blind that I can't see those tiny little buffalo and need something as big as a barn...

Actually, I love both, but in my little experience, I've been able to get within 20 yards of the three elephant I've shot (and that close to a few dozen more), but my buffalo shots have averaged twice that. I guess I could wait until I got closer to buffalo, but I seem to always spook the suckers with my poor "sneaking" ability. As Retriever said on another thread, any elephant to which you get close is a BIG elephant... and the tusks are wonderful curling around a fireplace!

I think that it has just become "common knowledge" that there are "economy" hunts, albeit non C.I.T.E.S. and when folks take advantage of them, they are subject to the Bill, Dan, H&H465 and JudgeG disease.