Ive been quoted 1800$ USD preparation fee plus $620 insurance, plus an "estimate" of 1000$ for shipping costs. A grand total of 3420$ USD to get my trophies out of Mozambique from this years 9 animal plains game hunt.

The price seems excessive to me and is the insurance worth it considering there is a million outs on the insurers side?

Looking for anyone that has had a similar experience shipping out of Mozambique and some advice

Thanks

I just received my shipment of Moz critters home today, everything was in fine shape. I usually decline insurance, saved $500 on this one, a very low risk in my opinion. If there was elephant ivory or a lion hide in the shipment that would be a different story.

You will have plenty of time to save for it.
My Moz hunt was in august of 2014. Trophies made it to Mich. yesterday

Lots of people have to touch it compared to a South Africa trip. Everybody get a cut.

You are right about the insurance. You will never get anything from them. Save your money.

I paid about $1800 for 5 planes game animals and about $800 or so for shipping from Moz. Every little cost they could think of was added. I did not pay for insurance. It was a total rip off but I paid it anyway to get my stuff out of there. A racket for sure.

Prices like that for getting stuff home is what has made me into a "pictures only" guy. I hate getting ripped off and that's how I feel about shipping trophies home from Africa.

I haven't brought anything home from Moz the last two trips because of this including 2 buffalo and a ~16" bushbuck. I had a couple of things I really would have liked to have gotten home this past August, but $3000+ is ridiculous. I can fly back over for less than that. Of course if I had a cat or something like that, I would have paid. On the insurance thing...I had insurance out of RSA a couple of years ago. For whatever reason one of my son's duiker skull was missing from the shipment. I was paid about $650 pretty quickly. For what we had, the insurance was only $150 or so. This was all out of RSA though, and Moz may well be a completely different thing to deal with on insurance.

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Originally posted by Labman:
Prices like that for getting stuff home is what has made me into a "pictures only" guy. I hate getting ripped off and that's how I feel about shipping trophies home from Africa.

+1

Its really not worth it when the whole trophy process - dip and pack, shipping, insurance, US custom clearance and taxidermy adds 100% plus to a run of the mill plains game hunt.

And if one is shooting for pictures does one really care about sliding scale trophy fees for size.

I am in the go to africa, hunt and take pictures camp.

Mike

$ 2250.00 to get an oribi and reedbuck cape and horns from Mozambique to a US port of entry.

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Originally posted by Safari2:
$ 2250.00 to get an oribi and reedbuck cape and horns from Mozambique to a US port of entry.

Yeah that's rediculous

Thanks for your comments!

I simply will not pay it. I also am not into paying for an expensive hunt to just go over there and kill stuff.

I can stay home and hunt in Canada and the US and kill stuff.......... plus get the trophies home with no hassle and enjoy eating on it all winter.

When the add ons in Africa get back in line and out of the rip-off category, Africa will be back on my list. But until then, there is a lot of other places near home and on other continents I have not been and have not hunted.