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I've seen prices ranging from $4,000 up to $15,000. That's quite a spread! | ||
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Are you speaking of the hunt cost or the trophy fees? If it's hunt costs, it's more than your top figure in Tanzania. I'd guess it depends on the area you hunt and trophy quality. | |||
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I believe these are trophy fees: $4000 - buffalo $4500 - leopard A minimum 10 day hunt at $350 per day is required. I missed that. That would run the cost up to $7500 and $8000, respectively, unless BOTH could be hunted for in the same 10 days. | |||
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if you can find a buff hunt at $350/day plus $4000 TF fee. it is either a VERY good deal or a ranch hunt. $7500 for a 10 day free range buff hunt is WAY below the going rate. same would apply to a 10 day leopard hunt(assuming a high success rate). Vote Trump- Putin’s best friend… | |||
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Trophy fee on Buffalo averages $2,500; Leopard $3,500 in Zim for example. Add daily rates to that. $350 daily rate would most likely be in RSA where it's usually a package deal. $12,000-$15,000 is the norm in RSA for a 7 day Buffalo package, depending upon the area. Some of their better hunts are on huge blocks around Kruger Park. Our 7 day Buffalo hunt in Tanzania is $16,100 1x1 or $14,100 2x1 and this includes all Gov't fees and permits. Dangerous game hunts are not cheap anymore, and Leopard may soon be a thing of the past if they are put on CITES I. I would target Leopard right away. Buffalo later unless you want a combined hunt. LDK Gray Ghost Hunting Safaris http://grayghostsafaris.com Phone: 615-860-4333 Email: hunts@grayghostsafaris.com NRA Benefactor DSC Professional Member SCI Member RMEF Life Member NWTF Guardian Life Sponsor NAHC Life Member Rowland Ward - SCI Scorer Took the wife the Eastern Cape for her first hunt: http://forums.accuratereloadin...6321043/m/6881000262 Hunting in the Stormberg, Winterberg and Hankey Mountains of the Eastern Cape 2018 http://forums.accuratereloadin...6321043/m/4801073142 Hunting the Eastern Cape, RSA May 22nd - June 15th 2007 http://forums.accuratereloadin...=810104007#810104007 16 Days in Zimbabwe: Leopard, plains game, fowl and more: http://forums.accuratereloadin...=212108409#212108409 Natal: Rhino, Croc, Nyala, Bushbuck and more http://forums.accuratereloadin...6321043/m/6341092311 Recent hunt in the Eastern Cape, August 2010: Pics added http://forums.accuratereloadin...261039941#9261039941 10 days in the Stormberg Mountains http://forums.accuratereloadin...6321043/m/7781081322 Back in the Stormberg Mountains with friends: May-June 2017 http://forums.accuratereloadin...6321043/m/6001078232 "Peace is that brief glorious moment in history when everybody stands around reloading" - Thomas Jefferson Every morning the Zebra wakes up knowing it must outrun the fastest Lion if it wants to stay alive. Every morning the Lion wakes up knowing it must outrun the slowest Zebra or it will starve. It makes no difference if you are a Zebra or a Lion; when the Sun comes up in Africa, you must wake up running...... "If you're being chased by a Lion, you don't have to be faster than the Lion, you just have to be faster than the person next to you." | |||
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Also- quality of hunting and trophy quality in the area. If you can be sure to look over 2-300 buff a day and the PH has been warned not to dare come back to camp with a buff under 40"...it is a whole different experience to hunting in an area with a much smaller population where after 5 days of hard hunting you finally see a bull... | |||
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As Ganyana said between the lines: In hunting, as in much else in life, you generally - not always, but generally - get what you pay for! In good hunting. Andrew McLaren | |||
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In the first place a 10 day safari for Buffalo is OK if there are lots of buffalo in the area, but 10 days for leopard is likely to end wit tag soup, and going home without seeing even one leopard! To do a safari for both Leopard, and Buffalo on a 10 day safari is not a real good idea no matter how cheap it is. Back in the late 80s or early 90s you could do a 7 day hunt for 5-6 animals including Buffalo, and Hippo for under $7000 all in. Those days are over my friend. Now a $1000 per day plus trophy fees is an average bargain, with a trophy fee on the Buffalo being more than the whole safari was back then. ...............Sad ain't it?  ....Mac >>>===(x)===> MacD37, ...and DUGABOY1 DRSS Charter member "If I die today, I've had a life well spent, for I've been to see the Elephant, and smelled the smoke of Africa!"~ME 1982 Hands of Old Elmer Keith  | |||
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Just a few of the reasons for variation in price in hunting: location, facilities, likelihood of success, professional hunter, reputation, booking volume, cancellations, time of year, number of days, number of animals on quota, politics, supply vs. demand, drought, famine, disease, ranch vs. wild, trophy quality. Those few come to mind as fast as I can type this. IMHO, a good rule of thumb is, "You pay peanuts, you get monkeys." Will J. Parks, III | |||
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