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I am in the process of planning my 6th African hunting trip. The goal is to have a bloody good time. To me a trophy is the whole process not just a tape measure on a horn. The harder the hunt the sweeter the victory!  I am young fit and the one thing that drives me nuts is driving around in perfectly good country I like to walk! I also can’t stand hunting with softies. I believe that a hunter should strap on his man suit before leaving camp every morning.  I like serious wild country and a seriously strenuous outdoor experience. I like to have sore feet, thorn scratches and salt rings on my shirt at the end of the day. I care not for luxury. Although cold beer at the end of the day is a nice touch!  I've hunted Tanzania, Zimbabwe, and South Africa. I liked the Kilombero in Ta. I liked the Dande in Zim. RSA is just a place to hang out with the wife and kids farm "hunting" leaves me cold. I would like to try something new. Buffalo is always my primary goal. But I'd really like to hunt a hippo on dry land as well this time. I've hunted tuskless and it was neat but not something I'd make a special trip for. Looking for something new, rugged, wild and exciting. Ideas? | ||
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I haven't hunted them but from what I've read Lord Derby eland sounds just like the hunt your looking for  ______________________ | |||
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Surestrike, I am making my tenth trip to the dark continent and rescheduled a leopard hunt in the Zambezi Valley to head off on a 10 day buff, croc and hippo hunt in the Luangwa River valley of Zambia. Classic safari country, price wasn't too bad and John DuPlooy is supposed to have a fantastic area in the Chanjuzi...check out the article in Sports Afield on the lion hunt with the Winchester 95 in .405 for a preview of the area. Everyone I've talked to says it is the real Africa....I'll report in detail when I get back. Contact Mark Young or Adam Clements...I booked the hunt through Safari Trackers. Then again Mozambique is pretty wild...Benin...CAR ...choices, choices! On the plains of hesitation lie the bleached bones of ten thousand, who on the dawn of victory lay down their weary heads resting, and there resting, died. If you can talk with crowds and keep your virtue, Or walk with Kings - nor lose the common touch... Yours is the Earth and everything that's in it, And - which is more - you'll be a Man, my son! - Rudyard Kipling Life grows grim without senseless indulgence. | |||
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Zambia, very good buff and hippo there | |||
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Surestrike, you might want to contact Ted Gorsline. He's got some good deals in Uganda where you can go after big buff and hippo. Otherwise, I still dream of the Derby Eland in Central Africa. No fences or armchair hunters there. _________________________________ AR, where the hopeless, hysterical hypochondriacs of history become the nattering nabobs of negativisim. | |||
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Swamp buff in Mozambique sounds like an option. Get your hippo and add croc too. ~Ann   | |||
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Why not Mt Nyala or Bongo both physicial demanding, no riding in a truck on these. | |||
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You need a tracking hunt for bongo, without dogs, in the CAR. From what I have heard, that is a physically demanding hunt, to put it mildly. Bongo are spectacularly beautiful and colorful animals, almost orange colored with many white body stripes, and are one of the largest of the forest antelope. Yet they are more difficult than any other to track and stalk to within shooting range. You will need good pygmy trackers. One day . . . .  Mike Wilderness is my cathedral, and hunting is my prayer. | |||
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I think MR has it right. Sounds like you'd really enjoy a hunt in central Africa for Bongo, Lord Derby Eland and forest buffalo. "There are worse memorials to a life well-lived than a pair of elephant tusks." Robert Ruark | |||
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Surestrike! You might consider a walking safari in Chete in Zim. There is a large portion of Chete that has no roads. I think you can arrange a porter safari there through HHK. 465H&H | |||
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Read The Bongo That Damn Near Killed Me, J.B. DeRunz's report of his last CAR hunt. Should be right up your alley! ------------------------------- Some Pictures from Namibia Some Pictures from Zimbabwe An Elephant Story | |||
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Gentlemen, Some great input here. Thank you. I'd love to do a Bongo & Lord Derby. Hmmmm. | |||
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Surestrike, I just came back from my 14th trip to Africa. I have a bongo and a Derby and the hunts are fantastic!!!! PM me and we can talk Mike | |||
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I just did a 7 day backpack safari for buffalo in Chewore (Zim) with Andy Hunter. No driving, lots of walking for many kilometers. Great hunt, great landscapes and great PH. Antonio | |||
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Chewore north or Chete. As to what Antonio stated, I have heard Andy Hunter likes to walk alot on his hunts.  ozhunter | |||
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There is an interesting hunt being offered in this months Dakota magazine for a Teddy Roosevelt tented safari which is totally on foot - no vehicles. It moves around in Tanzania with approx. 70 porters. It is a 28 plus day safari. ALLEN W. JOHNSON - DRSS Into my heart on air that kills From yon far country blows: What are those blue remembered hills, What spires, what farms are those? That is the land of lost content, I see it shining plain, The happy highways where I went And cannot come again. A. E. Housman | |||
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Forest elephant in Cameroon. | |||
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Teddy rode a horse because he was too fat to walk. | |||
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Teddy rode a horse because neither Cuninghame nor Judd had a Toyota. Mike Wilderness is my cathedral, and hunting is my prayer. | |||
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It sounds to me like you should go on either a Mtn. Nyala hunt or a Lord Derby Eland hunt. Good luck to ya! _______________________________________________________ Hunt Report - South Africa 2022 Wade Abadie - Wild Shot Photography Website | Facebook | Instagram | |||
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Just got back from safari with Tshbezezi safaris in Zim. Hunted with PH Kurk Mason - he LOVES to walk! I would recommend him for any of the fab 4 - no "gentleman's hunt. | |||
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