Which country has the least expensive license/tag for a bull sable?

Totally wrong focus. IMHO

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Originally posted by SBT:
Which country has the least expensive license/tag for a bull sable?

Based on that criteria alone - USA - 5 day exotics license in Texas will cost you $48.

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Originally posted by Sevens:

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Originally posted by SBT:
Which country has the least expensive license/tag for a bull sable?

Based on that criteria alone - USA - 5 day exotics license in Texas will cost you $48.

But you will be missing the whole point of the hunt.

Imagine not being able to go to sleep to the sounds of hyenas, and wake up by the roar of lions.

I think the point the man is making is that trophy fees vary from country to country,that along with that most of us do not have unlimited wealth it makes sense to be a bit frugal.Check Zim for the best price. S.A. is usually very high

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Originally posted by SBT:
Which country has the least expensive license/tag for a bull sable?

Mozambique would be a good guess but it depends on if you looking for common Sable or Roosevelt Sable the common on sable are not that big as in Zambia or Zim 43" would be about max in Moz most common are 38-41".

Hope that helps

Toni

You can find in SA with broomed or crockered horns for around 3500-4000 euro's in the 38-41" catergory.

Well, SBT.
Don't listen to some of them. You are looking for good decent price for sable. Good. Some just want the biggest trophy and are willing to pay premium. Each to our own.
I only hunted good deals and I have never been disappointed. Nothing wrong with that. Not everyone can pay top dollars.
You more likely do real hunt for decent price then if you pay ton of money where you almost don't feel like just a hunter but some royalty.
To me, hunting should be a bit tough, rough with some struggle and sometimes not much success, good trophies, but average and on and on.
That's all I gotta say

Let me clarify. I wasn't suggesting that price is no object or that size is the main object. I shouldn't have been so terse.

To me, a sable is a special animal. He should not be shot in Texas. Or on some game ranch in South Africa. A sable should be hunted in bush, with hyenas whooping at night, lions sounding off if possible, bushbabies (where available), etc. It's the experience that counts, not whether your bull winds up being 38" or 43". Or the cost of your license or trophy fee. It's a balancing act, but I'm just suggesting you give weight to some other factors.

Good point Lavaca

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Originally posted by lavaca:
...Or on some game ranch in South Africa.

I dunno about that. Some of the game ranges in SA are flat out huge. I've spent some 12 days at Sante Asana and in that time I saw one Sable.

I think it's all a matter of trying to find the type of hunt that fits your dream...and then go make the dream happen.

The now infamous Antoinette Property in Zimbabwe used to be a great place to hunt sable. I shot two 42 inch sables and saw bigger. Also, contact Rosslyn Safaris in Zimbabwe. They have good sable on their Cawston property. They cater to bow hunting so I'm not sure if rifle hunting is doable. Peter Johnstone the owner of Rosslyn is one of the first licensed PH/outfitters in Zim. I have hunted at Cawston and it is lovely with lots of game.

Unfenced sable are widely available in most all regions in Mozambique (niassa & surrounds, tete, delta, C9).

Another vote for Crawston. I bow hunter there in 2012. Great place and people. I was not looking to shoot sable but saw several very nice ones.
There was a rifle hunter in camp, but I think they do not take many rifle hunters.
Contact Juliet Johnstone off their web site.

rnovi:

I've never hunted in South Africa and had no intentions of casting aspersions that way. I have bowhunted on a very large high fenced place in Namibia and it was great. Totally fair chase.

I'm just saying that being in a wild place is better.

These are broad generalities, but you can hunt big Sable with a great success rate in NW Zim of Zambia for $15k, or hunt decent Sable with a marginal success rate in some other areas of Zim for $10k, or decent Sable with a high success rate in several areas of Moz for $12k.

I don't know what the prices are elsewhere.

SBT, talk to Guy Whittall. He and his partners have great areas in northern Mozambique for Roosevelt sable out of good camps and at good prices.

Lavaca, I don't disagree at all. I would love to hunt a full, old school wild hunt. Those days though may well be behind us. I hope not...