Are there any Cape Buffalo in the US/Texas for hunting? Why or why not? I am also surprised nobody is raising rino in Texas either. It looks like the habitat would be perfect and would probably would be free of poachers.

In one word No! I have seen people claim to have cape buff but it has always turned out to be water buffalo. Hoof and mouth disease is the reason. I dont know about rhino. You are correct in the the habitat would be fine. I imagine it is because of Cites restrictions not to mention price.

It is illegal in Texas to allow dangerous game to roam free or within a fenced confine..They must be caged or in a confine that passes inspection...It is now illegal to hunt dangerous game in Texas under certain definitions I have been told....

There are several locations in Texas that are raising Rhino, but to my knowledge none for hunting. Fossil Rim, south of Ft. Worth has a fair sized herd of blacks and a few whites; their thrust is to have a breeding population that is isolated to counter the loss of habitat and poaching in Africa. They also have a very successful breeding program for Cheetahs.

Can somebody show me how free ranging Cape Buffalo are dangerous when not wounded? I lived in Africa for 15 years and spend about a third of every year there on business and can't recall of a single incident in which buffalo attacked or injured any residents when it wasn't shot or bearing snare wounds. A far as I can tell it's only dangerous when it's hunted, not when left on its own. If someone can give me an account of being attacked by buffalo when just minding their business I would like to know about it.

Thanks for the info. Now I know.

Can you imagine a herd of cape buff patroling the Texas border? Might slow things down around there, eh?

I can never understand why some enterprising individual has not introduced spanish fighting bull blood into some of the feral cattle that occur in various places in the US. They might not be proper cape buff but they ould certainly be interesting to hunt after 3 or 4 generations of going feral!

Like Ray said, laws have been passed so DG can't be hunted in Texas, although those ole Blue Bulls down south aren't to be taken likely.

Per my ex father inlaw, The King ranch had 3 or 4 Asian Buffalo on the ranch at one time. Late 50's, early 60's, King ranch hauled 3 cotton trailers full of exotic game down Farm Road 70 to the Laureles section of the Ranch. They had a flat on one of the cotton trailers in front his house, he loaned them a tire off one of his cotton trailers. He wasn't exactly sure what kind of animals they had in the trailers, but best he could tell they had a load of Axis deer, a load of Nilgai and possibly 3 or 4 Asian Buffalo. Per my father inlaw, the asian buffs didnt make it through the first winter. The Axis deer are probably still there, last I heard there were about 25 and quite inbread that used to hang out behind the old CPL power plant. The blue bulls are a different story, they headed south and over the years they made it all the way to Jackss flat north of Brownsville Texas, thats a long ways. For all I know they swam the Rio Grande at Boca Chica and made it to Mexico.

That would sure make good country for Cape buffalo, it would put a different spin on whitetail hunting thats for sure.

Everyone is on track. Buffalo and disease don't mix. There are several attempts to establish herds of Asian though, especially south and west of San Antonio. Rhino are at Fossil Rim and a couple of others, but are strictly breeding stock. A number of years ago Safari Club Int. began to purchase African stock for a rhino breeding program on a 30,000 acre ranch near Harlingen, Texas. It seemed to be coming along well, but have not heard of late. There are a couple of very large, very private ranches in Northern Mexico with free ranging elephant, giraffe, eland, kudu and others, but have never heard of buff or rhino.

Who would want to hunt African Cape buffalo in the U.S. of A.?

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First week of December, year before last, about 55 handgun hunters made there annual trek to the YO Ranch in Mountain Home, TX, north of San Antonio. It was a 3 day charity meat/cull hunt for the local Salvation Army called the Louis A. Shreiner Memorial Handgun Hunt for the "Feed the Hungry"...

During the last day of hunting, the YO management asked a few hunters if they would mind going off the beaten path and eliminating some nuisance buffalo that had been very aggressive toward clients. So off they went...found 3 bulls with bad attitudes that were brown with cape-like horns and blond fuzz in their foreheads. All three charged the SUV and were shot after quite an exciting little chase. The pics of the beasts are @ www.reedercustomguns.com under "Photos", near the bottom.

Word had it they were a mix: cape and savannah buff. Regardless, they were extremely aggressive and had been there for 4 or 5 years...DG???

The buffalo are the Rogaine/Clairol sub-species usually found in seedy bars with leisure suits on. What is with that mop top, anyway???

I was invited last year. It was a good primer for my 17-yo son before our PG hunt in June. We shot 9 white-tail and exotics between the two of us that amounted to about 600 lbs. of meat. I won't do it again, but it was what it was, a meat shoot and not hunting, per se. They do have some nice Axis, Fallow, Sitka and other deer species there, but it ain't my cup of tea. HUGE longhorn bulls and a few other exotic cattle, Am. bison, some giraffe, kudu, eland running around. Was a nice 3 days with my boy and made some friends in the bargain.