Any Bow Hunters interested in big Kudu for this year still?

Daily Rate (1X1) $300 (min 7 days)

Trophy fees:

Kudu <52" - $2,000
Kudu 52" - 56" - $2,300
Kudu 56" - 60" - $2,750
Kudu 60"+ $3,750

Other species available in good numbers on same 5,000 acre ranch in no particular order:

Impala - $350
Red Hartebeest - $1,400
Blue Wildebeest - $1,000
Zebra - $1,400
Giraffe - $2,750
Sable - $9,000
Buffalo - $10,000
Warthog - $350

Other plains game species available in area (not on same ranch)

Nyala - $2,750
Gemsbok - $1,400
Duiker - $350
Steenbok - $350

Ranches near Lephalale in Limpopo Province hunting from very comfortable camp.

This is an offer for a bow hunt on a bow hunting only ranch. An exception can be made for rifle hunters hunting with silenced rifles. A .30-06 silenced rifle and / or crossbow is available for use by client.

I have a real problem with graded scale trophy hunting, whether it be kudu or whitetails. If you tell me how big it is, and are wrong and its bigger, are you going to make up the difference in cost? Make it one reasonable cost, and let the chips fall where they may. All the rest are great prices.

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Originally posted by Blank:
I have a real problem with graded scale trophy hunting, whether it be kudu or whitetails. If you tell me how big it is, and are wrong and its bigger, are you going to make up the difference in cost? Make it one reasonable cost, and let the chips fall where they may. All the rest are great prices.

To be honest - I have a problem with tiered trophy fees as well. But this is how this particular landowner has set his pricing and I have little alternative other than passing same on to my clients. Look at it this way - would you be happy to pay $3,750 for a 50" Kudu if you could get it for $2,000 elsewhere? $3,750 for a 60" Kudu bull in an area that has true potential to deliver such specimens with a bow is a very reasonable price though.

To answer your question - if I as PH misjudge the size and you shoot a bigger one than what you were hoping for the responsibility for the difference in cost would be on me.

Spoken like a man Chris...