Did anyone hunt with Russ Broom for buffalo last year? How was it (camp, number and size of of animals)? Where did you hunt?

Wihntr:

PM dougaboy, if I'm not mistaken he hunted with Russ Broom this past Aug/Sept for elephant and has hunted with him before. He may be able to give you some insight.

Good luck.

Gary
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wihntr, here is an interesting bull we shot in Russ's Binga concession last year. The hunter is a South African that were looking for a bull with caracter.
Go ahead and book with Russ. He is one of the best guys in Zim. You are welcome to PM me for more buff shot there, or more info if you like. I will be in Russ's hunting area from Monday of the coming week.

Wow, I like that bull and would have shot him in a second.... neat trophy!

That is cool. Not something you see every day.

Thanks for posting,
FB

Personally, I would have let him walk. I prefer the classic look.

Cool bull..........I'd HAMMER'ed him in a second.

I hunted with Rory Muil last May. It was VERY thick, and dispite the fact that we were into buff several times every day, I shot mine the last hour of the last day. Other than doing it later in the season, I would hunt with him again in a minute.

My buddie shot his buff the first morning, FWIW.

We stayed in Songo camp. Very nice, overlooking a pond. Lots of wildlife frequenting the pond, including a bunch of noisy elephants.

-Steve

wihntr,

I was in Russ' Kabuba camp for 14 days during the first half of last September. I mostly hunted the Muchesu area. There were very few buffalo and lots of people. The only buffalo that we saw were a group of 5 dugga boys on the 6th day (I shot mine out of that group).

We saw a few elephants, but in 14 days did not see one track that the PHs wanted to go after.

I would be very careful about where I hunted. I don't know about his other camps, but I would not go back to Kabuba. The locals are taking over the hunting areas.

Gunny also hunted with him last year and, I believe, is headed back this year. He should be able to give you a good idea about other areas.

Feel free to PM me or call me if you want to discuss this further.

Doug
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Dougaboy,

You have a PM.

We took a 47 inch, a 38 inch and a 37 inch buffalo out of Kabuba camp in 2002. I have not been back since. Took nice buffalo out of Songo camp in 2004. Going back this year I think out of Songo for leopard.

Lot of people at Kabuba in 2002 so guess more now.

BigB

BigB,

I was told that the change in game poulation over the last few years has been dramatic. It is such a shame, the area is really beautiful.

Doug

I hunted out of Kabuba camp right after BigB in '02. We took 3 buffalo in 6 days, 2 the first day. We saw some nice elephant too but not much for PG.

I was back in '04 but we hunted out of Chizirira (sp?) and Sangwa camps.

Kyler

Kyler,
What was your '04 hunt like?

It was strictly designed as an elephant hunt so it was really early (April). We saw quite a few elephants but not much else. We only cut buffalo tracks and PG tracks a couple times but Rory mentioned the other game should come into the area later in the season.
Toward the end of the safari we had one leopard working a bait but the plane came before the leopard came back.

I remember walking along a ridge the first afternoon of the hunt and Rory mentioned that Terry Carr had taken his elephant in that spot. So he should have some input as well.

The camp was fine. We were specifically hunting crop fields to find big tracks so we were purposely going through villages. The number of people may have been off-putting to some but I thought it was interesting.

Out of the Sangwa camp we saw very few, if any, people and lots more plains game. I took a bushbuck and waterbuck out of that camp and saw plenty of impala and warthogs.

From what I understand that part of the escarpment has never been a great PG destination.

Hope that helps.

Kyler

Ive hunted with RBS five times for buffalo. Have killed six big bulls with the largest being 45 inches. Also killed seven elephant, a super black maned lion , leopard , and a host of plains game. The lion and the elephant bull came from Kabuba. Some of the biggest leopard in africa come out of that area. Plains game has suffered throughout the years but Russ had a client shoot a eighty pound elephant while staying in Kabuba camp in 2004. If you are hunting for plains game dont go there but if your going for buffalo, elephant or leopard its as good as any tribal area in Zimbabwe. Our first trip there was in 94 and our last trip was 06. Our next trip is 08.Last year I could have shot a decent buffalo on six or seven occasions but held out for two great ones after two tracking jobs on both. Ive seen lions on three out of the five trips with RBS but I think that was mostly luck.