So say you shoot an elephant, hippo or cape buffalow how much of the meat are you allowed to eat or take home. I understand that you are required to give alot of the meat to the local tribes is that correct?

Namibia, Steel, requires that the meat be used. In the Mamili concession in the Caprivi Strip we went and got a dozen from the nearby village and they butchered the elephant I'd shot and took the meat back home to smoke and eat.

Don't think about trying to bring game meat in any form into the USA if it's from swine or bovine (wart hog, bushpig, Cape buffalo). Ostrich, on the other hand, is a bird and ostrich biltong was allowed in when I brought some along one year.

Regards, Tim

I guess you could eat all you want, but the meat cannot be imported.

well when I went on my bison hunt I justified the cost by all the meat I got to keep. I guess even if you could take meat back with you shipping would be expensive.

you think?? expensive and illegal. if you can't bring home biltong( and you can't, at least legally), you certainly aren't going to bring home raw meat( forgetting of course the logistics of trying to keep it frozen for 20 or so hours of travel, even if you live on the east coast.

Rest assured it'll get eaten there, either by the people or by critters eating it as bait. Eat all you can while you're there and leave the rest content in the knowledge that it's extremely unlikely to go to waste.

The hunting companies of Africa put the value of the meat into the pricing matrix. Some commercially sell it (RSA), most all serve it in camp (and it is delicious), some use it as a p.r. tool with the locals, sometimes it is used as cat bait (and you don't need to shoot an impala or something "extra"). With a couple of the elephants I've shot, a portion went to the camp staff, a portion to the locals and the rest was sold to the croc farm to feed the future belts, handbags and shoes.

None went to waste...

BTW, someone should post a picture of the staff area after a buffalo is shot. About a mile of homemade twine holding up a quarter ton of drying biltong. Cool!

In some operations you're eating the last guy's stuff. The land owner usually has say over what gets eaten (vs. what is HIS), so just enjoy the hunting and ask ahead of time what you get to try...

Belive me, After seeing some of the skins and skulls that come out of the crates, I don't even want to think about opening a crate of meat....

I can see the list of charges now, dip and pack, marinade fee, dry rub insecticide treatment, debone charges, freezer paper $8.00 per foot, labeling fee, USDA meat inspection, nutritional label charge, cooking instruction manifest fee...be happy to leave the meat there...very happy!

Sorry, no meat is exportable into the United States, period. Eat some of it while you're there and enjoy it. That's all you'll get to enjoy.

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Camp biltong from my buffalo. Literally yards of this from one buff.

Quite a bit of meat distibuted to the locals who helped with the recovery. Maybe 12 to 15 people of all ages.

You sound like you are from Wisconsin. Whenever I tell someone that I went to Africa they always ask "How do you bring the meat home" I guess it's just the way we are, never wanting to waste anything. When I tell them that it goes to the locals and we are not allowed to bring it back then it's OK.