I am looking for a buff hunt but now for the hard part, one of the guys that wants to hunt buff with me can't walk very far at all.

Does anyone know of a buff hunt where a guy could get a buff from a blind?

It may be possible but not very likely. the expression goes, "you kill a buffalo/elephant with your feet".

Geronimo

It depends on where you can find a hunt. Talk to the PH/outfitter. Not easy, but if he can walk dowmhill, the plan would be to get above the buff and walk downhill to them.

Gentlemen,

This hunt is very possible in the right area. Conservancy hunts in Zim and theopen plains in Masailand can produce easily accessible buffalo.

Mark

Contact Peter Thormahlen at Thormahlen and Cochran Safaris. www.AfricaTrophyHunting.com Cheers

It depends on what you mean by walking far. I have difficulty walking far but have taken 4 buff. The PH sends the trackers to follow the buff with a radio. When they find them they tell us where we can get "close" with the hunting car. We then walk the rest of the way to the buff, sometimes several hundred yards to as much as a mile.

The other suggestion is to hunt late in the season when water is scarce. The buff may be a bit easier to find.

I have hunted with Russ Broom Safaris booked via Bill Williamson of www.fairchaseltd.com.
BigB

We can set you up with a spot and stalk Buff hunt on a 30,000 hectare (75,000 acre) ranch in RSA. $11K including the trophy. This is not quite the same as concession hunting but you aren't walking miles either.

The other way to do it is to hunt very late in the season when it's hot. The buff won't go far from the waterhole. You amble along on their track, maybe a mile or two at most, until you locate them. They can be spooky though so you have to know how to walk quietly.

You shouldn't have any trouble finding what you need. Some outfitters / clients hunt dangerous game from wheel chairs.

Send you a PM

We were hunting in Luawata GMA Luangwa Valley of Zambia in September and during our 21 days there we could have shot a number of Buffalo Bull from the hunting vehicle. In fact on the last day of hunt after spending the night in Machan for lion, we decided to shoot a Buffalo for the camp staff. We took off from the camp at around 2PM and bumped into a huge herd of buffalo, may be around 500 animals and they just stood there. We picked a very decent hard bossed deep curl 39' bull and shot it literally from the hunting vehicle about 90 yards from the dirt track. The late season buffalo hunt can be very easy there if you prefer it that way.

How long is a piece of string? How close is "not very far"? I tagged along on a black bear hunt up in the mountains in Alaska earlier this year with a 75 years young guy who had a double knee replacement earlier this same year. Sure he could not walk very far, but he walked as far as required.

I can, and I'm sure many other HO's can get the guy a decent buffalo hunted in ethical manner without any really far walking requirement. If he really wants to, like with a deep down burning, no, an all consuming desire or compulsion, he will learn and practice and somehow overcome the disability/condition that is supposed to prevent him from walking very far, and he will walk as far as required. Yes, it may actually kill him. But, then what a way to go......

In good hunting.

Andrew McLaren

If your friend is truley handicaped, then a herd bull can be taken fairly easily in the Luangwa Valley, by simply driveing the dirt tracks, and when a herd is spotted, slip out of the vehicle,behind cover, and let someone drive on down the road some distance and stop where the Buffalo can see them. The herd will concentrate on the vehicle, giveing your friend, and the PH a chance to make a short stalk on the herd. If he is really handicaped he can shoot from the vehicle, but most anyone can make a short stalk!

George Hoffman, used to walk right up to Buffalo by useing a shield, made of an A-FRAME covered with long grass, and a hole in it to look through. He and the Hunter would walk single file behind the shield, with George's eyes the only thing showing through the hole in the shield. The steady movement of the shield didn't seem to bother the buffalo at all. When they got into range, the shield was used like bypod sticks with the rifle resting in the "V" at the top of the shield. Worked like a charm!

Couldn't the hunter be placed overlooking a waterhole? This would be the best bet I would imagine

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How long is a piece of string? How close is "not very far"?

"Everything is walking distance if you have enough time." --- Steven Wright

Contact Claude Kleynhans at http://www.guwelahuntingsafaris.com (Mafigeni Sarfaris)
Dave

Thanks everyone, I have received many PM's offering help for my friend. This is looking like this is going to happen

A great option would be Coenraad vermaak safaris in SA; they arranged a buff hunt in SA in Pilanesberg natl Pk for two very overweight US hunters who really couldnt walk more than a couple of hundred yards, and both were successful from a blind. try www.cvsafaris.com

Look up PH LESLIE LONG. I hunted in Zambia this past July - August, my PH was Leslie Long. On day 5 or 6 he insisted I shoot my buffallo from the back of the truck. Several times I ask to get down and make the final approach, but he refused. I know I could have refused, however my hunting partners mother was in the IC Unit of a Memphis, Tn. hospital. At this time I was thinking we might have to cut the trip short and return to the states the next day, knowing that I might never get another chance to hunt buffallo I went ahead and shot the buffallo.

Shooting from the back of the truck definitely took some of the thrill away, but if your buddy can't walk Leslie is your man.

H Kirtle

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Originally posted by h kittle:
Look up PH LESLIE LONG. I hunted in Zambia this past July - August, my PH was Leslie Long. On day 5 or 6 he insisted I shoot my buffallo from the back of the truck. Several times I ask to get down and make the final approach, but he refused. I know I could have refused, however my hunting partners mother was in the IC Unit of a Memphis, Tn. hospital. At this time I was thinking we might have to cut the trip short and return to the states the next day, knowing that I might never get another chance to hunt buffallo I went ahead and shot the buffallo.

Shooting from the back of the truck definitely took some of the thrill away, but if your buddy can't walk Leslie is your man.

H Kirtle

Sorry to hear that. I'm afraid if my PH pulled something like that we'd have a real serious talk.

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Couldn't the hunter be placed overlooking a waterhole? This would be the best bet I would imagine

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In Tanzania hunting within 200 meters of a water hole for buffalo is forbidden by game laws.
Sincerely,