In the initial stages of planning a hunt in 2016 for my wife and I and some clients/friends. While the friends are first timers who will be happy with the usual free range game in Namibia, I really want to scratch the bushbuck itch, having never taken one.

Are there any operators in northern Namibia that have regular plains hunts and access to hunting bushbuck on one of the concessions?

Probably going to spends some time in Namibia and then go to RSA, so may have to just wait for the RSA leg of the trip, but thought I would ask.

My, rather limited, knowledge of the distribution of bushbuck says that there should be Chobe bushbuck in far northern Namibia. This agrees with what an expert on bushbuck says: Steve's Shakari Connection

It is now up the the Namibian hunting outfitters to chime in and make you offers. In South Africa I can offer both Limpopo and Cape bushbuck, but I do not operate in Namibia at all.

Enjoy your safari!

Thanks Andrew, that is what my research suggested…….. should be Chobe bushbuck up in the far north/Caprivi. Will wait and see. May be problematic for operators to do it at reasonable rates.

I'll drop you an e-mail later.

We hunted Bushbuck up in the Caprivi this past August, while on an Elephant/Buffalo hunt. We saw a couple bushbuck, but didn't take one. We really didn't spend a great deal of time on bushbuck, but we did saw a lot of tracks.

The Eastern Caprivi strip bucks up against Vic Falls, plenty of bushbuck

I have seen Chobe bushbuck in the Caprivi, along the, well...the Chobe.

But they were't on license.

IIRC, bushbuck quota among the various eastern Caprivi outfitters is very low.

Thanks for the info.

I saw a rather nice bushbuck in the Caprivi in 2013, my PH was very excited to see it, but we had no quota to shoot one. We decided to have a bit of fun with the PH in charge of the concession, when we returned that night.

"We shot a bushbuck, a very nice one! We do have one on quota yes?"

The shocked face, the pissing and moaning was epic. The fact was, no quota was expected anytime, any year soon in anywhere around Salambala or Kabulabula. Possibly further east, but not in that area we hunted.

MikeE thanks, that kinda tells me everything I need to know. Will be looking to RSA and maybe Zim. for Limpopo and Cape bushbuck, scratch Chobe.

One of Kobus's PH's is here this week, we will ask him when we speak, if there are any Chobe bushbucks available on any of the Caprivi concessions, he will know.

Stand by, will attempt further info.