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What a privileged bunch we are!

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Originally posted by 465H&H:
It seems top me that what DG hunt that you think is overrated is dependent on what you want to get out of the hunt. The experience of the hunt is the most important aspect I consider when booking a hunt.

I have only hunted leopard a couple of times and on the first, I insisted that we take the cat over bait as I wanted to learn how to bait leopard. I passed up two opportunities to take the cat with out baiting on that hunt. Once was enough for me and I will probably never hunt leopard again unless it is a depredating cat.

I have killed a lot of buffalo and the first few were very exciting and a great learning experience. Over time I have found buffalo hunting to be somewhat boring. They are easy to track and little to learn after a couple of tracks. Their poop is yucky to check temperature. But worst of all is that they always seem to run from you. It is a continual bump them, track, bump them again and they run again. That gets very frustrating to me. Following a wounded buff now is a whole different ball game. Here you have to be constantly on your guard for a charge. That is exciting and definitely not over rated.

I have never baited for lion but I suspect it isn't much different from baiting for leopard. I have followed depredating lion tracks on two farms but they avoided us by crossing onto a neighbors property. I think a tracking hunt for a lion would be extremely exciting.

Now, elephant hunting is the apex of hunting, in my opinion. I have hunted elephant more than any other DG and it still thrills me from start to finish. The tracking is a continual learning experience. I learn something new on every track. For starters, when you approach them, whether a single bull or a cow calf herd, their sheer size is guaranteed to intimidate you. Where buff will run on the mere suspicion that you are there, elephants will turn toward you and approach you for a closer look. Learning the correct shot placement from any angle is a challenging goal and it takes a lot of experience to reach that level of expertise.

So I guess the most over rated hunts for me would be buff and leopard and elephant the most enjoyable.

Before anyone argues with my choices, let me say that your choices are most likely based on what you want to get out of the hunt and therefore are just as good as mine.


465H&H

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Originally posted by dogcat:
Let me add that the best hunts can be the worst hunts and vice versa depends on the people and outcome.

My wife will tell you that our Lord Derby was the best but she was sick the entire time, worn out in the heat, bug eaten and came home with parasites, but she liked it....

What month was that?

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Originally posted by Saeed:
From a hunting point of view, then it must be leopard.

I have shot a few, and I hope to shoot a few more. As I don't just go to hunt one species. I enjoy hunting in all its facets.

That include shooting the bait and sitting in the blind. I have seen some wonderful birds and animals from the leopard blind.

I have enjoyed listening to the first bird calls early in the morning as dawn breaks.

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Originally posted by Blair 338RUM:
A mate of mine shot 3 buff in Moz and reckoned it was boring as hell.......like shooting bloody cattle.

He said he'd rather go chase a huge kudu for the money..........

I'd like to shoot a leopard but we can't import them into Oz.

And for the money, I'd rather have a Lord Derby Eland than elephant etc.