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Guys and gals, I'm starting to think about a Cape buffalo hunt in the (North American) fall of 2012 or in 2013. I'd love to add nyala, bushbuck, eland or hartebeast, but would settle for just the buff if that's all I can afford. The buff must be a good one, as I doubt I'll hunt them more than once. So my goal is hard, wide bosses, deeply curved horns and 38 inches or more. Where would you look for such a hunt at the best possible value? I've seen some bruisers taken in Limpopo, but the ZA buffs seem very expensive; I'm guessing best value may be Mozambique or Zimbabwe. There is hope, even when your brain tells you there isn’t. – John Green, author | ||
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PM some of the agents who post here. Your wishlist is pretty widely available in Africa. Don't forget that you will pay for this trip spread out over a couple of years. For example. a deposit this year, airfare next year, then the safari itself and taxidermy after that, so you don't have to have the entire hunt cost saved up in one lump sum. Good luck and have fun. Have gun- Will travel The value of a trophy is computed directly in terms of personal investment in its acquisition. Robert Ruark | |||
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If the other four listed are also high priority, you should probably be looking at RSA.....their Buffalo prices seem to be coming down recently. | |||
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I may get popped on this, but I believe shooting all five animals (assuming you are talking about red hartebeste) puts you in RSA, period. Take off the (red) hartebeste and you have options in Zim, though nyala is limited quota in most places. Not sure that eland occupy the coastal areas in Moz where the good nyala and buffalo hunting is found. There are eland and buffalo in Northern Moz, but not sure about Nyala. Bottom line, you can hunt buff, eland, and bushbuck in lots of places. Add nyala and you narrow the field. Add red hart. and you really narrow the field. Will J. Parks, III | |||
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Thanks guys. A good buffalo is absolutely No. 1 on my list. Eland is probably No. 2 and one of the lyre-horned antelope quite a bit farther down the list at No. 3. There is hope, even when your brain tells you there isn’t. – John Green, author | |||
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Zimbabwe and break the journey in RSA to poke around for Nyala. ROYAL KAFUE LTD Email - kafueroyal@gmail.com Tel/Whatsapp (00260) 975315144 Instagram - kafueroyal | |||
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Bill, go to Zimbabwe, get yourself your buffalo, an eland, a kudu, a bushbuck, and maybe a sable and you will be the happiest guy in the world. At least until you get on the airplane to leave and start wondering how the heck you can get back to Africa! Paul Smith SCI Life Member NRA Life Member DSC Member Life Member of the "I Can't Wait to Get Back to Africa" Club DRSS I had the privilege to fire E. Hemingway's WR .577NE, E. Keith's WR .470NE, & F. Jamieson's WJJ .500 Jeffery I strongly recommend avoidance of "The Zambezi Safari & Travel Co., Ltd." and "Pisces Sportfishing-Cabo San Lucas" "A failed policy of national defense is its own punishment" Otto von Bismarck | |||
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Wish I had a dollar for all the people who said this before their FIRST buffalo hunt.....I would be rich! Beware....this shit is addictive! You will go back. ****************************************************************** R. Lee Ermey: "The deadliest weapon in the world is a Marine and his rifle." ****************************************************************** We're going to be "gifted" with a health care plan we are forced to purchase and fined if we don't, Which purportedly covers at least ten million more people, without adding a single new doctor, but provides for 16,000 new IRS agents, written by a committee whose chairman says he doesn't understand it, passed by a Congress that didn't read it but exempted themselves from it, and signed by a President, with funding administered by a treasury chief who didn't pay his taxes, for which we'll be taxed for four years before any benefits take effect, by a government which has already bankrupted Social Security and Medicare, all to be overseen by a surgeon general who is obese, and financed by a country that's broke!!!!! 'What the hell could possibly go wrong?' | |||
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Roscoe: I did PG in Namibia with Johann Veldsmann in 2007, and you bet I was dreaming of safari No. 2 before I got out of Windhoek! There is hope, even when your brain tells you there isn’t. – John Green, author | |||
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Bill All the species you find in the Zambezi Delta in Mozambique, however the Hartebeest would be Lichtenstein’s, and the bush buck would be Chobe, plus Croc, Hippo, Sable, Reedbuck, Suni, red and blue duikers, oribi, elephant, leopard and much more! Any of the Coutada’s (hunting concessions) 10,11,12,or 14 can do this for you! Hope that helps | |||
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I would also recommend the Zambezi Delta in Mozambique. All the species you want are available and the hunting is excellent. I've hunted Coutada 11 twice and wouldn't hesitate to hunt it again. You might want to start the booking process fairly soon as I believe the quotas go pretty quickly. Good luck to you. | |||
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