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Gents Any ideas or opinions on the best areas for buff in Zim? The valley, north west (Wankie area) or the south east (Save area). Also has anyone taken buff in the Caprivi and if so what was the trophy quality like? Cheers | ||
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Tons of buff in Chewore. Some very nice horns if you are willing to look over lots of buff. JPK  Free 500grains | |||
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With the odd exception you are not going to get the horn spread in Zim that you will in Northern Tanzania. In most of the government concessions 40" is a GOOD average. In many CAMPFIRE areas more like 37-38" Save is generally on a par with the better parks areas. Of course every year somebody takes a nice "jaws" Buff 45" up in a Campfire area just to prove me wrong, but we are talking "averages" | |||
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Save or Chewore gets my vote 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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I think Ganyana hit it on the head as usual. My thought would be to go into the area that interests you the most. Your PH will have some strong ideas and some of that is his personal preference based upon experiences. If you really would like to see the Kariba area or the Save area or whatever, then try to go there. Your PH is going to be able to find you buffalo in any reasonable area that he has access to so you should at least consider areas that are particularly interesting to you. I'm not really into the inches thing anyway. I'm just looking for good representative mature animals and the more character they have the better...plus the memories are in the stalk and shot vs. the size of the trophy. _______________________________  | |||
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This discussion should be concerned with mature bulls. Again, there can be a huge disconnect between horn width and hard bossed bulls. | |||
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Thanks folks for your response, I am just taking 5 at work and enjoying your feed back. Youkon you are absolutley correct, it is the hunt and not the tape measure, but you have to be impressed with that beaut from new guy. I suppose that one of the reasons I posted this thread was also to gauge the quality from the different areas and also how likley it would be to connect with a good representitive buff. I will be looking at a trip to hunt one of these big guys and I want to do it right the first time as the budget only stretches so far. Thanks again all Stu | |||
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Chewore is my favorite and I had a client shoot a 47 inch buff there a couple years ago. Most buff are 35 to 38 there, and I would not pass up a 38 inch buffalo in Zimbabwe these days., but a 38" buffalo is a beautiful animal if he has boss and some drop. that equals to a inch on each horn less than a 40 incher, and on the wall I defy anyone to tell me the difference. Ray Atkinson Atkinson Hunting Adventures 10 Ward Lane, Filer, Idaho, 83328 208-731-4120 rayatkinsonhunting@gmail.com | |||
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