Has cape buffalo hunting in USA become more competitively priced?
The last time I queried, there was a cape buffalo hunt available in Texas - $50,000. Fifty grand is beyond my price range. Is there now any competition cape buffalo in the USA - that is, a competitive price drop that enters the price range of African travel, immunizations and prophylactics, import-export of firearms and trophies, and hunt fees?
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26 February 2016, 06:48
Fjold
For $18-$20 grand you can do Africa for Buff with the opportunity to add some plains game pretty cheaply.
Frank
"I don't know what there is about buffalo that frightens me so.....He looks like he hates you personally. He looks like you owe him money." - Robert Ruark, Horn of the Hunter, 1953
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26 February 2016, 07:04
Crazyhorseconsulting
Not trying to be rude, but shooting a Cape Buffalo in Texas for any price ranks right up there with shooting someone's Hereford bull.
My boss offers Buffalo/Bison to shoot, and shooting a Cape Buffalo would be no different. You are driven around a pasture, the animal is spotted, and you get out and shoot it.
That is not hunting in anyone's book, I do not give a damn about the price, it is a shoot, nothing more.
If it is what floats your boat, by all means do it, but it is not a "Hunt" for either species, it is a shoot.
Even the rocks don't last forever.
27 February 2016, 06:59
Naphtali
Is that really what that Texas hunt is? I kind've zoned at fifty grand. Never having hunted farmed?? game, I merely assumed it would be on similarly vast acreage that I'm led to believe is what most African hunts are. OR are African private property hunts also comparable with "shooting someone's Hereford bull," in a foreign country?
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Originally posted by Crazyhorseconsulting: Not trying to be rude, but shooting a Cape Buffalo in Texas for any price ranks right up there with shooting someone's Hereford bull.
My boss offers Buffalo/Bison to shoot, and shooting a Cape Buffalo would be no different. You are driven around a pasture, the animal is spotted, and you get out and shoot it.
That is not hunting in anyone's book, I do not give a damn about the price, it is a shoot, nothing more.
If it is what floats your boat, by all means do it, but it is not a "Hunt" for either species, it is a shoot.
It's so simple to be wise. Just think of something stupid to say and then don't say it. Sam Levinson
28 February 2016, 20:41
MARK H. YOUNG
Naphtali,
The point of a Cape buffalo hunt is not merely to shoot a buffalo but to be in Africa and have the "Safari Experience". In my mind shooting a Cape Buffalo in Texas is cheating yourself at any price.
African buffalo hunts can be had on smaller fenced properties for $8,500 all in. Bigger fenced areas might offer them for $12,000-$14,000 and wilderness areas for $18,000-$30,000. It all depends on what experience you want.
Mark
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02 March 2016, 08:56
JBoutfishn
quote:
The point of a Cape buffalo hunt is not merely to shoot a buffalo but to be in Africa and have the "Safari Experience". In my mind shooting a Cape Buffalo in Texas is cheating yourself at any price.
African buffalo hunts can be had on smaller fenced properties for $8,500 all in. Bigger fenced areas might offer them for $12,000-$14,000 and wilderness areas for $18,000-$30,000. It all depends on what experience you want.
Mark
An elephant will not wonder through camp, the roaring of the lion will not be heard nor will the smell of smoke permeate your being in Texas.
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02 March 2016, 09:09
Idaho Sharpshooter
Texas, well, that's just Texas...
Africa is a total immersion experience.
Rich
02 March 2016, 14:45
Sean Russell
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Originally posted by JBoutfishn:
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The point of a Cape buffalo hunt is not merely to shoot a buffalo but to be in Africa and have the "Safari Experience". In my mind shooting a Cape Buffalo in Texas is cheating yourself at any price.
African buffalo hunts can be had on smaller fenced properties for $8,500 all in. Bigger fenced areas might offer them for $12,000-$14,000 and wilderness areas for $18,000-$30,000. It all depends on what experience you want.
Mark
An elephant will not wonder through camp, the roaring of the lion will not be heard nor will the smell of smoke permeate your being in Texas.
Actually the smoke we can do in Texas, the rest, not so much.
"The rule is perfect: in all matters of opinion our adversaries are insane." Mark Twain TANSTAAFL
Is that really what that Texas hunt is? I kind've zoned at fifty grand. Never having hunted farmed?? game, I merely assumed it would be on similarly vast acreage that I'm led to believe is what most African hunts are. OR are African private property hunts also comparable with "shooting someone's Hereford bull," in a foreign country?
I have no experience hunting in Africa, but I do in hunting in Texas. From experience in working with bison, having hunted musk ox in northern Canada, the large bovine types really aren't all that impressed with human superiority.
I notice among the other responses, people with African experience have described low end to high end hunts and from the way all those that have experienced Africa on their various hunts, as much as I love Texas, I will be damned if I would spend any money here to shoot a Cape Buffalo, just to be able to say I did it.
Were I ever to get really wound up to want to shoot a Cape Buffalo, my ass would be on a airplane headed for Africa.
Even the rocks don't last forever.
02 March 2016, 22:45
crbutler
I had thought that Texas had banned the placement of dangerous game on shooting preserves?
03 March 2016, 01:03
Quick Karl
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Originally posted by MARK H. YOUNG: African buffalo hunts can be had on smaller fenced properties for $8,500 all in. Bigger fenced areas might offer them for $12,000-$14,000 and wilderness areas for $18,000-$30,000. It all depends on what experience you want.Mark
It might just be me, but I find it incredible that anyone has $30k to drop on a hunt. I'm not sure that I could do it even of I had that kind of money.
03 March 2016, 02:15
AnotherAZWriter
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Originally posted by Crazyhorseconsulting:
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Is that really what that Texas hunt is? I kind've zoned at fifty grand. Never having hunted farmed?? game, I merely assumed it would be on similarly vast acreage that I'm led to believe is what most African hunts are. OR are African private property hunts also comparable with "shooting someone's Hereford bull," in a foreign country?
I have no experience hunting in Africa, but I do in hunting in Texas. From experience in working with bison, having hunted musk ox in northern Canada, the large bovine types really aren't all that impressed with human superiority.
I notice among the other responses, people with African experience have described low end to high end hunts and from the way all those that have experienced Africa on their various hunts, as much as I love Texas, I will be damned if I would spend any money here to shoot a Cape Buffalo, just to be able to say I did it.
Were I ever to get really wound up to want to shoot a Cape Buffalo, my ass would be on a airplane headed for Africa.
You opinion may be worth dog shit CH, but this is actually a very good post: don't hunt for something because you think you need to, or you think your hunting friends will be impressed. Hunt what you want to hunt. Personally, I love Africa, but I also love elk hunting on horseback, hunting moose and bears in the north, etc.
I have been somewhat of a collector in my hunting career, but I have always felt that if I was wanting to shoot something, I want to do so in its native/natural home range.
Over the years I have met folks that really only wanted to say that they had shot something, and were willing to come to Texas to shoot a Greater Kudu.
Could I afford to do that, yes, but it would not be the same as going to Africa to shoot one.
Yes, I would be able to have the trophy and the meat shooting one here in Texas, but I think I can guarantee that a Texas raised Greater Kudu would not taste the same as one that had lived in the African Bush.
Even the rocks don't last forever.
05 March 2016, 16:13
7kongoni
If one wants to shoot a cape buff in Texas he only has to justify it to himself, no one else. Myself, I'm looking for a Polar Bear hunt in Florida....
05 March 2016, 19:16
OLBIKER
I will be guiding for the extremely a rare all white Cape Buffalo in Wisconsin next winter.Anyone wanting to make a reservation PM me!!
05 March 2016, 19:47
p dog shooter
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Originally posted by OLBIKER: I will be guiding for the extremely a rare all white Cape Buffalo in Wisconsin next winter.Anyone wanting to make a reservation PM me!!
Snow buff I hear they are tough they can hide under even the smallest amounts of snow.
Hunting them is kind of like fishing for muskies takes a lot of hunts to get one.
And kind of like the exclusive snow snakes very very hard to find. But well worth the money if you ever do.
Heck we just received another two inches I should start carrying my 416 just incase one pops out of the snow bank
18 March 2016, 16:20
scottfromdallas
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Originally posted by OLBIKER: I will be guiding for the extremely a rare all white Cape Buffalo in Wisconsin next winter.Anyone wanting to make a reservation PM me!!
White buffalos are extremely dangerous. I saw the movie.
