Cape buffalo trophy bulls

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Hunt organizer Anton Bakker Rhinocon PTY LTD

Lodging:
Kaya Marula Lodge
Place of hunt Dwaalboom
Adjoining Atherstone Nature Reserve
Limpopo
South Africa

$250 per day 5 day hunt $1250

Price list add 14% re VAT (Paid back on departure with VAT invoice )
36 – 37” - $9500
38- 39” - $11 000
40” - $14000
40+ -$14000 + $350 per inch extra


Included:
Cape buffalo trophy
5 days hunting
Pick up and return Oliver Tambo
Full board and lodging
All meals
South African beer and wine.
Laundry services
PH
Hunting Vehicle
Rifle + 10 bullets
Trackers and skinners
Field prep of trophy
Transport of trophy to taxidermist

Excluded:
Vat 14% can be reimbursed at departure.
Carcasses of buffs
Any flight tickets
Taxidermy
Dip and ship to home country
Gratuities to staff
Private insurance
Any requests outside the hunt
Plains Game

I Have 2 dagga boys 40+ available at $12000

40+ -$14000 + $350 per inch extra
taken inn the europeian way of xtra inches...
a buff is a buff....

Ya, I don't know any guide/PH that can call an animal within an inch. IMO it/s an easy way to make a couple extra hundred bucks off a client.

Sad to this happening in Africa of all places....
as Donner said, a buff is a buff....
What's next wart hogs?
Used to be one hunted for the pleasure of the hunt, for the challenge presented and to be in the wild.
I am, and have been a trophy hunter, but have not hunted with a tape measure; the modern ego driven occupation.
For me every animal taken is a trophy and of course it is all well and good when a truly magnificent specimen is taken.
To hunt is to experience the outdoors, the wild, the excitement, the dangers sometimes presented, but a new breed
of hunter has arrived thanks to record book fever and I do not believe it bodes well for the future of hunting.
More and more it has become a commercial enterprise.

One man said it well....

One does not hunt in order to kill; on the contrary, one kills in order to have hunted...If one were to present the sportsman with the death of the animal as a gift he would refuse it. What he is after is having to win it, to conquer the surly brute through his own effort and skill with all the extras that this carries with it: the immersion in the countryside, the healthfulness of the exercise, the distraction from his job.
Jose Ortega y Gasset, Meditations on Hunting

I agree Bill, can you imagine if we start breaking down deer, elk, moose, antelope ect ect but the inch??? Gets a bit costly real quick like. What even happened to places that charge a set fee and go for the largest/mature animal?

I've seen size pricing on animals from kudu to elephant. Why the issue now? Oh, let's just go talk about lions...

just like anything else. You let cat out of the bag and before you know it, it's everywhere.
And I have seen the inch factor in US on private lands on elk and deer for years.
All it takes is some hunters willing to pay more for bigger and before you know it, everyone is jumping on band wagon