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It seems the normal path of the African hunter is to go plains game hunting and then step up to dangerous game. I found plains game hunting so enjoyable I wondered if the added cost of dangerous game is worth it. Obviously that is a personal decision but I wondered if anyone ever spent the extra money and went dangerous game hunting and wished they had gone on another plains game hunt instead? One of the thing that got me thinking about this was while I was in Botswana my PH does a lot of DG hunts in the Delta and many times guys will come down and hunt PG where I was after they take the Elephant or Buffalo. I imagine they would continue to pay the DG daily rates while hunting at the PG area? I'm guessing DG is worth it since so many guys keep going back.... | ||
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Nope. STAY IN THE FIGHT! | |||
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Nope +1. Mike | |||
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Nope +2. The adrenaline rush when you are spitting distance away from any of the Big Six is sooooooooo close to the same feeling (for those of you who have been in combat) of being shot at that you cannot explain it. It would be like trying to tell someone what that first cold beer tasted like, or the time you lost your virginity. In a way, it is a death defying or at least defining experience. After DG everything else is just fun. Rich Buff Killer | |||
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As a guy who has sought life lived on the edge all my life, DG hunting is right up there in the top four or five rushes I've ever had. PG is fun, but hunting somethng that will hunt you back is exhilirating. | |||
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No, but I did do a plains game hunt in an area with DG and wished I had DG to go after. Luckily they had a problem lion on quota that we went after but never got. Did shoot a hyena off a lion bait. I do not think I would go all the way to Africa ever again without some type of DG on the list. BigB | |||
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No, in fact just the opposite. I wish I had spent the money that I spent on hunting plains game (including shipping it back and the taxidermy) on hunting dangerous game. | |||
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Never DuggaBoye-O NRA-Life Whittington-Life TSRA-Life DRSS DSC HSC SCI | |||
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Agreed, although I usually combine a DG hunt with some plains game, as there are certain plains game that I want to also take and have taxidermied for my trophy room as well, or become targets of opportunity while I am there. | |||
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Geoff The short answer is no. A plains game hunt with a great outfit like Tholo is a wonderful expereince and one that I'm very much looking forward to this Sept but it has very little relationship to a DG hunt in the wilderness. Coming out of your tent before daylight in the morning and hearing a lion calling in the distance after being serenaded by the rumblings of feeding elephant during the night cannot be comapred to anything I know about in life. Mark MARK H. YOUNG MARK'S EXCLUSIVE ADVENTURES 7094 Oakleigh Dr. Las Vegas, NV 89110 Office 702-848-1693 Cell, Whats App, Signal 307-250-1156 PREFERRED E-mail markttc@msn.com Website: myexclusiveadventures.com Skype: markhyhunter Check us out on https://www.facebook.com/pages...ures/627027353990716 | |||
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No! I'm only interested in hunting dangerous game when I go (or been) to Africa, I would rather hunt North American Big-Game then Africa's Plains Game. | |||
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I find hunting plains game very enjoyable and always find a way to work in several impala or Kudu while on safari. I also enjoy shooting the African pigs. One of the best non DG hunts I have had was for Eland. I simply love to hunt big Eland on large tracks of land….it took me 3 days to harvest an old blue bull on one safari. Having said all this, I have no greater passion that hunting buffalo. I hunted Jumbo once and did not find the enjoyment that others have had. I think I need to try again and see if my feelings have changed. But Buffalo are an addiction that I doubt will ever go away! ****************************************************************** 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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I did PG, then DG, then PG with a bow. Unless it was very specialized PG, I don't think I would go back without some kind of DG on the ticket. Personally, and this may well change one day, but I would rather go on 3 -4 Cape Buff hunts than something like Lord Derby. Again, I don't have the experience for buff to be old hat... Leopard for me this year, and tuskless and sable next year. If successful on these, I imagine I will be going back after buff again after that. There is something magical about the places that ele and buff call home- they are truly wild...Even hunting PG in a DG area is different to me- especially when you realize you have stalked a kudu and are now 50 yards from a group of ele. Good Hunting, Tim Herald Worldwide Trophy Adventures tim@trophyadventures.com | |||
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Plains game hunting is A LOT of fun........BUT....once you hunt DG.....all other hunting pales IMO. And that's REAL disappointing because it has spoiled me. As Roscoe states...and I agree....Buff are absolutely the best for me. Especially when you go in the real thick stuff after them....you hear them, you smell them....but you can't SEE them.....great stuff. White knuckling that sweet double in your hands while you try to get a glimpse of that big dugga boy....Man I gotta stop now....can't take thinking about it! Gary DRSS NRA Lifer SCI DSC | |||
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My last six safaris have all been after elephant. I could have taken some plains game on each of them. But I won't shoot an animal I see from the road and I won't take the time from elephant chasing to track PG down. But then I am the worst kind of elephant addict. 465H&H | |||
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not once. I mean everyone need a couple of kudu and some other species but DG is the BOMB! NRA LIFE MEMBER DU DIAMOND SPONSOR IN PERPETUITY DALLAS SAFARI CLUB LIFE MEMBER SCI FOUNDATION MEMBER | |||
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I've done both several times. Never regretted the DG hunts one bit. The most exciting thing that ever happened to me in over 45 years of hunting was getting charged by a bull elephant and dropping him at 12 yds. I don't think I'll ever top that for excitement. I now know I can do it, but hope I never have to do it again. Tom Z NRA Life Member | |||
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Maybe a first, a thread on AR where all the posters agree! And no one has thrown a stink bomb. Wow. Mike | |||
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I will let you know. I am going on my first buff hunt in Zim in September. Been on 3 plains game hunts in SA and had a blast. I don't know if my heart can take much more fun!  I hunt, not to kill, but in order not to have played golf.... DRSS | |||
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No way. I just got back from Zim a week ago on my first safari. We shot buff, impala and baboon. Saw some great kudu and sable which I didn't shoot. Next time I go back I'll save up for two buffalo. Everything else is camp meat. My biggest dissapointment was after I shot my buff....I was done hunting buff. Very addictive! | |||
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While my first African hunt was for DG in the Selous, I later hunted PG in SA. All of my future plans are for DG. 'nuff said.  Jim "Bwana Umfundi" NRA | |||
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With just 2 safaris behind me (plains game only on first, buff, hippo and plains game on second) I have no regrets on ANY money I've spent on African hunting. My overall hunting career plan centers on the spiral 9 for the challenge, but I do plan to add in DG wherever I can. Caleb | |||
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 My first African safari was a plains game hunt on different SA ranches, it was a good first experience. Second time, I went to Zimbabwe for a DG safari since then, I have only done dangerous game safaris with plains game taken for bait / camp meat or if it is an exceptional trophy. Ahmed Sultan | |||
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Far be it from me.  Mike Wilderness is my cathedral, and hunting is my prayer. | |||
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I like PG hunts.........shoot a lot more for the same price. Must be that old 'roo shooter mentality More variety, more species to hunt, etc But to each his own............... Verbera!, Iugula!, Iugula!!! Blair. | |||
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Dangerous game hunting is in a world of its own. Worth every penny. Australia I love a sunburnt country, A land of sweeping plains, Of ragged mountain ranges, Of drought and flooding rains. I love her far horizons, I love her jewel-sea, Her beauty and her terror The wide brown land for me! | |||
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Amen... Remember, forgivness is easier to get than permission. | |||
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No | |||
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Nope, there is no going back - that would be like swopping Catherine Zeta Jones for that spotty fat grateful bird you had at school when you were fourteen !!! Give me the uncertainty of a bit of danger everytime. | |||
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To be honest, it did crossed my mind a couple of times when I was in the middle of some sticky goings  | |||
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As a mate of mine who is ex 2nd REP says, DG is the hunting of men............. Verbera!, Iugula!, Iugula!!! Blair. | |||
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"Ever spend the $ on dangerous game and wish you did plians game instead?" Well....................NO! Every plains game specimen I have was a target of opertunity while hunting dangerous game! Mainly Cape Buffalo In Africa, and bear in North America. I wouldn't have it any other way! .....  ...............  ....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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Plus 1 ..........  ....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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Always go for the DG. You will save money in the long run because you won't have to take a stress test for your heart when you get back to the states. Believe me your heart will be going and if you don't need to be evacuated you are probably going to be OK | |||
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I had the most horrendously horrible DG hunt of my life last year. If I would have known how it was going to turn out. I'd have gladly done a PG hunt instead. Especially the part at the end where they tried to bill me at a higher daily rate fee than was the quoted agreed to daily fee price. Talk about adding insult to injury... | |||
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I've never regretted the $'s spent on DG or wished I'd spent it on PG. Surestrike, sorry to read of you trouble. Don't let it keep you from DG in the future! I've had one very expensive, tough because of injury and conditions and not nearly as successful as anticipated elephant hunt. No fault of the PH, at all, just my turn, and his, for some tough breaks. I got back on the horse and went back the same year for more elephant hunting with the same PH. A complete success despite having to deal with my Dad'd death, just the right cure. Maybe not the same PH in your case, but another hunt with a better PH/outfit should do it. JPK  Free 500grains | |||
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No. I am glad I have hunted the Plains game I have, for the complete African experience. I also shot multiple buff and elephants on all of my Safaris. When I go back it will be for elephants, elephants, and elephants. DOUBLE RIFLE SHOOTERS SOCIETY | |||
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JPK, Thanks for the kind words. One of these days I'll go back. I've got to recover financially from this last screw up before I can start planning the next one. That was my sixth hunt in Africa I guess I was due for a bad one. | |||
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