THE ACCURATERELOADING.COM HUNTING FORUMS

Merry Christmas to our Accurate Reloading Members


Moderators: Saeed
Go
New
Find
Notify
Tools
Reply
  
South Africa Buff
 Login/Join
 
One of Us
posted
What is the going rate on Buff in South Africa and who would you recomend ! May have some extra dead presidents coming my way.
 
Posts: 60 | Location: Kilgore TX | Registered: 09 September 2007Reply With Quote
one of us
Picture of Andrew McLaren
posted Hide Post
Here a price copied directly from the web site of one of the few places in South Africa where you can really hunt a decent hardtop buffalo on an area so big that the fact that it is actually fenced makes no difference to the hunt at all.

quote:
Cape Buffalo $8 980


In good hunting.

Andrew McLaren


Andrew McLaren
Professional Hunter and Hunting Outfitter since 1974.

http://www.mclarensafaris.com The home page to go to for custom planning of ethical and affordable hunting of plains game in South Africa!
Enquire about any South African hunting directly from andrew@mclarensafaris.com


After a few years of participation on forums, I have learned that:

One can cure:

Lack of knowledge – by instruction. Lack of skills – by practice. Lack of experience – by time doing it.


One cannot cure:

Stupidity – nothing helps! Anti hunting sentiments – nothing helps! Put-‘n-Take Outfitters – money rules!


My very long ago ancestors needed and loved to eat meat. Today I still hunt!



 
Posts: 1799 | Location: Soutpan, Free State, South Africa | Registered: 19 January 2004Reply With Quote
one of us
Picture of shakari
posted Hide Post
I doubt you'll find a better price than that in a good area in RSA. - You should also expect to pay a daily rate on top of that price.

RSA is never gonna be a cheap place to hunt any DG, but if your time is limited and you want convenience, then although it's not my personal choice as the best option, it's a reasonably good one if you're willing to accept you'll not be hunting a true wilderness areas......... and as I say, the price Andrew has quoted you is a very good price indeed............






 
Posts: 12415 | Registered: 01 July 2002Reply With Quote
One of Us
Picture of infinito
posted Hide Post
Andrew, please elaborate. Where and who....


Charl van Rooyen
Owner
Infinito Travel Group
www.infinito-safaris.com
charl@infinito-safaris.com
Cell: +27 78 444 7661
Tel: +27 13 262 4077
Fax:+27 13 262 3845
Hereford Street 28A
Groblersdal
0470
Limpopo
R.S.A.

"For the Infinite adventure"

Plains Game
Dangerous Game
Bucket List Specialists
Wing-Shooting
In House Taxidermy Studio
In House Dip and Pack Facility
In House Shipping Service
Non-Hunting Tours and Safaris
Flight bookings

"I promise every hunter visiting us our personal attention from the moment we meet you, until your trophies hang on your wall. Our all inclusive service chain means you work with one person (me) taking responsibility during the whole process. Affordable and reputable Hunting Safaris is our game! With a our all inclusive door to door service, who else do you want to have fun with?"



South Africa
Tanzania
Uganda
 
Posts: 2018 | Location: South Africa,Tanzania & Uganda | Registered: 15 August 2006Reply With Quote
one of us
Picture of Andrew McLaren
posted Hide Post
Steve,

You very obviously know buffalo prices in South Africa. Yes the cost I quoted is just the trophy fee! In this particular instance the daily rate will not be near as high as a hunter can expect to pay in Tanzania. But the total hunt cost will be similar. Not the same, but similar. The experience? I personally would very much prefer Tanzania. But as you say, if conveniance and time is considered one can have a decent buffalo hunt in South Africa.

This particular area is in Northern KwaZulu-Natal and there are also some very good nyala on the property.

Least someone gets the wrong impression, I'm NOT offering a buffalo hunt at this cost, I've just posted the trophy fee that is on the web page. The question was "going rate" and I attempted to give a reply to that specific question.

In good hunting.

Andrew McLaren
 
Posts: 1799 | Location: Soutpan, Free State, South Africa | Registered: 19 January 2004Reply With Quote
One of Us
posted Hide Post
B Watson

$ 8 980 sounds right for the trophy fee in South Africa, excl day rates.

Another option is to go into Zim, Just north of the Kruger, I have a ten day buff hunt incl everything except aircharters and dip n ship for $ 11 000, the buff are hunted on 600 000 ha and some excellent trophies have come out of the area, last week a 44" buff was taken. It would also work out cheaper to do a 2 on 1 safari if you have a buddy who is keen on going up.

Please feel free to get in contact with me should you have any queries or would like to see more info.

Regards

Aubrey
 
Posts: 605 | Location: South Africa | Registered: 07 February 2008Reply With Quote
one of us
posted Hide Post
Is that for a disease free buffalo?



 
Posts: 5210 | Registered: 23 July 2002Reply With Quote
One of Us
posted Hide Post
quote:
Originally posted by surestrike:
Is that for a disease free buffalo?


Yes they are
 
Posts: 605 | Location: South Africa | Registered: 07 February 2008Reply With Quote
One of Us
Picture of 375 fanatic
posted Hide Post
ive heard from 9000 to 14000 us


"Buy land they have stopped making it"- Mark Twain
 
Posts: 914 | Location: Burgersfort the big Kudu mekka of South Africa | Registered: 27 April 2007Reply With Quote
one of us
Picture of Andrew McLaren
posted Hide Post
Disease free buffalo in Zimbabwe, just north of Kruger?

I learn new facts on this forum every day!

Andrew McLaren
 
Posts: 1799 | Location: Soutpan, Free State, South Africa | Registered: 19 January 2004Reply With Quote
One of Us
posted Hide Post
SureStrike

Appologies about that, I am mistaken on that.

Andrew is spot on
 
Posts: 605 | Location: South Africa | Registered: 07 February 2008Reply With Quote
one of us
posted Hide Post
The expense in RSA is due to the buff being disease free. That process does not come cheaply!

Now, you didn't ask this but personally, I would head to Zim to hunt buff. Buffalo inside a fence isn't my idea of buff hunting and you won't find disease free outside of a fence. Plains game inside a fence is one thing but dangerous game is another matter.

Zim has the best prices, the PHs (on average) are the best in Africa and the experience is as wild as you want it to be. In Zim you can get the entire hunt (not just the trophy fee) for a little more than just the trophy fee in RSA.


_______________________________

 
Posts: 4168 | Location: Texas | Registered: 18 June 2001Reply With Quote
one of us
Picture of Andrew McLaren
posted Hide Post
quote:
Originally posted by yukon delta:
The expense in RSA is due to the buff being disease free. That process does not come cheaply!

.......................................



yukon delta,

You are quite correct that the process of getting buffalo declared disease free does not come cheap at all. And they are all behind fences!

However the high prices charged for hunting trophy buffalo in South Africa, behind fences, is due to simple supply and demand market forces. The supply side is now severely affected by bovine tuberculosis, and the demand is from hunters who are in South Africa in any case, or do not want to, or can not time-wise afford to, spend 10 days on a buffalo hunt.

On a few fenced properties where there are real disease free roaming buffalo where many hunters go to hunt kudu and other plains game the "penalty" for shooting a buffalo in [ as they always claim] self-defense, runs at more than the cost of a 21 days Selous buffalo hunt. A PH taking a client there on a plains game hunt had better know how to avoid confrontation with buffalo, or have his professional indemnity policy paid up and in place! One farmer warned that the cost will be to replace the buffalo, at about typically R 125 000, and naturally more for a bull that begins to look like a decent trophy! The breeding of disease free buffalo has been going on for so long now that I'm sure that there must by now be a few old beyond breeding bulls that could be sold as trophy buffalo. I hunt on one property where such a bull died in a fight, after the land owner had turned down an offer of R 120 000 from a PH to hunt it with a client! I would hazard a guess that it will take many more years, maybe 20 or more, before there are so many disease free buffalo trophies on offer that the price of general buffalo hunting in South Africa will decrease to any significant extent. But as you said: It will still be a buffalo behind a fence!

In contrast to the very high price paid at auctions for true disease free buffalo, the live cost of "diseased" buffalo, or better said buffalo that does not have the required veterinary certificates declaring them to be “disease freeâ€, is very low as you will simply not get a permit to transport them! Such buffalo have value only in areas behind the so called "red line" that separates disease free from endemic foot and mouth disease areas. But they can be hunted as trophies even behind the “red lineâ€. As said the price of trophies are really determined by a simple supply and demand marketing mechanism.

In good hunting.

Andrew McLaren
 
Posts: 1799 | Location: Soutpan, Free State, South Africa | Registered: 19 January 2004Reply With Quote
One of Us
posted Hide Post
Watson, you have a private message!!
 
Posts: 6080 | Location: New York City "The Concrete Jungle" | Registered: 04 May 2003Reply With Quote
One of Us
Picture of cable68
posted Hide Post
One thing about SA Buff hunting kind of hinted at above: creature comforts. Not usually as important for the hunter as the spouse if she is along.

When the wife and step-daughter were planning on going with me that is one thing I was taking into consideration was the comfort and availability of other activities for the missus. I was looking for SA Buff, but ended up booking 1 wk RSA, 1 wk Zim.


Caleb
 
Posts: 1010 | Location: Texan in Muskogee, OK now moved to Wichita, KS | Registered: 28 February 2005Reply With Quote
One of Us
posted Hide Post
My 2cts is that if you have never hunted buffalo before dont cheat yourself the experience by hunting one that is not truly wild in a truly wild place. I feel like you wold be doing yourself a great disservice. In other words I wouldnt hunt one in SA. If you wanted to hunt one there you could save yourself the airfare and hunt one in Texas and have the same experience..... Roll Eyes



6x NFR Qualifier
NFR Champion
Reserve World Champion Bareback Rider
PRCA Million Dollar Club
02' Salt Lake Olympic Qualifier
and an all around good guy!
 
Posts: 354 | Location: Fort Worth, TX | Registered: 12 April 2005Reply With Quote
  Powered by Social Strata  
 


Copyright December 1997-2023 Accuratereloading.com


Visit our on-line store for AR Memorabilia