We have just secured exclusive hunting rights to an area just off of Klaserie Nature Reserve and Kruger National Park. This hunt is for wild buffalo. Client may hunt with bow or rifle. Hunt is walk and stalk. Here are the particulars;

Company: Ken Moody Safaris & Fritz Rabe Adventures

Outfitter/PH: Fritz Rabe

Area Size: 7000 acres under high fence

Hunt Duration: 7 Days

Cost: $8900 inclusive of daily rates & trophy fee

Additional Fees: One nights guest house stay and meal approx $100 plus dipping, packing, shipping of trophy

Contact: Ken Moody
kenmoodysafaris@gmail.com
www.kenmoodysafaris.com
931.260.5468

Hello Ken,

If the Area is high fenced, are these buff that were there before it was fenced? I am just wondering how they are wild buff, yet behind a high fence.

Thank you

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Originally posted by shoulderman:
Hello Ken,

If the Area is high fenced, are these buff that were there before it was fenced? I am just wondering how they are wild buff, yet behind a high fence.

Thank you

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Most hunting in South Africa is in fenced up areas.

Some large, and some not so large!

This is a communal area with buffalo that have been relocated from Kruger National Park.

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This hunt is for wild buffalo not SA farmed buffalo.

And the difference is??????


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Originally posted by Ken Moody:
This is a communal area with buffalo that have been relocated from Kruger National Park.

The question is fence or not?

Buffalo in SA that exist outside of the redline area must be tested and certified as free of bovine diseases that could be contracted by domestic cattle. These buffalo are raised/farmed and monitored for disease, blood worked, and in some cases, ear tagged for monitoring purposes. Simply put, they are farmed like cattle and are sold on auction, etc. Within the lowveldt around the KNP area the buffalo are prone to carry such diseases but propagate naturally and live in as wild a condition as possible in South Africa. They are no different than any kudu, jackal, or any other animal that is born in the area. Once killed the trophy must be quarantined and remain where it is shot during the quarantine period afterwhich it is released to the outfitter. These buffalo are not free ranging but are wild and the presence of a fence or not does not change their disposition.

We have contracted and have exclusive hunting rights to the area that is 7000 acres high fenced. This is stated in the original post. Buffalo here have been relocated from Kruger National Park.

Born free, as free as the mountains! Perhaps "farmed" buff can be fed steroids in order to induce "roid rage". Then they would be twice as dangerous to hunt as the "natural" variety?

BH63

What a silly post. As if every single buffalo in KNP stands around getting its picture taken. You mind your business and I will mind mine.

AR is turning into one tough crowd when it comes to "discounted hunts".

BH63

AR has always been a tough crowd but you post your offer and take your lumps as they say. Everything I posted is correct and legit. We have all legal documentation and contracts. I did not intend to offend anyone or suggest that hunting a farmed buffalo was illegal or unsavory or even safer. These clean buffalo get tired of being manipulated by humans and get quite nasty sometimes. It simply is what it is and many, many clients shoot these buffalo every year. It is totally legal. I was simply replying to a question posed in the thread. That is all. In fact, I thought it was quite common knowledge as to the disposition of buffalo hunting in SA. Outside of the redline area buffalo are bred for hunting and sell on auction all the time. "Dirty" buffalo or those born in the wild (such as it is) are as wild a buffalo as can be found in the country. By wild, I mean born in the bush not in a breeding pen or paddock. There is a reason that these clean buffalo hunts sell for around $16,000 and our hunts are $8900. The profit margins are the same. Anyway, I did not mean to offend or attack anyone's livelihood. Just answered a question as best I could. Good day.

Personally I have no issue with hunting buff in a fenced area as long as the area is large enough to support the buff.

I draw the line at feed troughs and barns. LOL

BH63

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Originally posted by BuffHunter63:
Personally I have no issue with hunting buff in a fenced area as long as the area is large enough to support the buff.

I draw the line at feed troughs and barns. LOL

BH63

How do you feel about milking parlors?

I think the confusion is contained in the description. You are talking about wild buffalo and Kruger National Park then later it states 7000 acres and high fence. The first time someone reads it they are thinking wild buffalo and Kruger.

Though I have never hunted them I know these buff an the area, trust me they will stomp you just as fast as if you were hunting them on the other side of the fence.
Do any buff not have the desire to return the pain if you should disturb them????

Sorry for any confusion.

Very interesting and new information to me. It is very much like the options you have with lion hunting:

1) Completely wild animal in non-fenced (tribal) areas or alongside national parks where the fences have fallen into disrepair

2) Completely wild animal inside low fence ranches or private conservancies.

3) Animals born inside high fences but born and living naturally there. Whether these are wild or "wild" is not agreed upon by everyone.

4) Animals shipped into a high fence operation OR bred in pens in that same area and then released to the full area

Actually, it is more complicated than that because you could have a low fence operation completely surrounded by other ranches that are high fenced so that the animal can escape from the hunter but can't escape into the wild.