I was perusing different sites, mostly dreaming about a hoped for future plains game hunt. I really enjoyed chasing around after Steinbok and seeing duikers and DikDiks. Hunting them intriques me. In looking over trophy fees, I noted that of the small guys, the klippy stands out as an pretty high fee compared to the other little antelopes. I farmed off and on all my life,so understand the general basics on how a rancher would reach the trophy fee. What is it about these little antelope that increases there value so much? Just curious.
Thanks
Bfly

Depends on where you hunt them.

In Tanz, the areas I hunted they wanted $1800 for one.

In Zim, I paid I think $650 back a few years on the Save.

I think its more the numbers around, and how the government views them.

Klippie and dik dik are each around $1100 in Namibia these days. Supply and demand.

The effort that goes into hunting one of these small guys also plays a role, as does traveling time and distance.

Of course supply and demand plays a major role.

The PH is the one that puts in all the effort , and mileage , climbs all the hills jumps from rock to rock after the little buggers , and we see NONE of the trophy fee

They're pretty universally $1,200 in Zim these days from my experience. Quotas on them tend to be low as well which drives the price a bit.

In parts of South Africa, they are rare and very sought-after.
You can quite often shoot one while hunting other animals in the mountains, such as vaal rhebuck and kudu, but targetting a klipspringer in particular often means two days of hard walking and climbing with only a couple of opportunities.

Zambezi Hunters list the trophy fee at $1000.00 now.
In 3 trips to Africa, I've only seen 1 & the quota was already gone.

http://www.mazungasafaris.com/mazunga-fees2013.htm

$800 in the attached link for 2013 on the Bubye Conservancy.

On my wish list for this year in South Africa, Trophy fee is $650.

I took one this past October with CMS in the Dande Safari Area. $750 TF. Took 8 trips to finally get one. I'd tried several times before but I had never seen a decent male.

Bfly,

Look a little further and check out TF's for red duiker, blue duiker and suni. The klippie will seem far more reasonable after lookng at these numbers.

From a 2013 RSA trophy fee list:

Red duiker $1600
Blue duiker $1600
Suni $3000

Mark

Thanks. I was only comparing Klipspringers to other smaller antelopes on the sites I was looking at. I knew that some of the small guys are pretty costly per pound and hard to find on a good day. I gave it some more thought and I can see that based on the niche that Klipspringers live in, the carrying capacity of any given area would be small and populations would necessarily be low. I suspect that they are much like our ruff grouse, not terribly conducive to intensive management. And so like our grouse, making hearing one, or seeing one or, even less likely, shooting one, more valuable than size would seem to indicate.
Thanks again
Bfly

Where I hunted in Namibia last year I saw 5 before I shot one. I don't know if it is on quota or not but my PH said they only take one a year if that. Saw an awful lot of Steenbuck as well, more than I can remember, seemed like they were behind every bush. I hunted with Agarob Hunting Safaris.

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Originally posted by Ej:
Where I hunted in Namibia last year I saw 5 before I shot one. I don't know if it is on quota or not but my PH said they only take one a year if that.

I hunted in Damaraland and Dik Dik and Klipsringer were both on a quota system. That said, Klipspringer were all over the place and Dik-Dik were no problem to take on a 10 day hunt. As you note, Steenbok were seemingly ubiquitous.

The last time I was in the Save' (2011) I had on my wish list Grysbok and although we saw a couple, we saw several Klipspringer. I wanted to collect a Klipspringer but there were none left on quota. Will try to get one in 15 when I head back.