What’s sort of budget do you need to shoot Buffalo?
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Can’t you wait until they roam the savannah around Canterbury, Kent?
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Heym SR20
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Nope. Mind you imagine letting a few big Cape or Nile Buffalo loose in Kent. Lots of fun methinks.
But these large ungulates fart too much according to Mrs Johnson and Zac Goldsmith - so not so good
shotguntom
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£10-16k in Zim and only goes up if you go to Zambia, Moz, etc
Whitefront
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I believe Roger Whittall Safaris in Zim do a 10 day buffalo hunt for about 14k US dollars (for a bull). Their Turgwe camp is nicely located: Roger Whittall Safaris – Established in 1977
I have never hunted with them, but they have a good reputation. Not sure if they do cull hunts.
Personally, I'd be up for a cow buffalo hunt and PG cull hunt, if I can find one. As for camps, a tent, a fire and plenty of cold beer would do for me. A view over some water would be perfect.
I have never hunted with them, but they have a good reputation. Not sure if they do cull hunts.
Personally, I'd be up for a cow buffalo hunt and PG cull hunt, if I can find one. As for camps, a tent, a fire and plenty of cold beer would do for me. A view over some water would be perfect.
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For 10 days in Niassa hunting Buff, getting there and back including charter flight, trophy fees (you will want to shoot other stuff), rifle permit, other admin costs, dip and pack and vets fees if you keep trophies, an overnighter in Pemba, tips etc etc. Then budget $30-35k
Throw in a few more k to get it back home and mounted.
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Throw in a few more k to get it back home and mounted.
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@Heym SR20 PM me your email address and I will send you a spreadsheet i did of 3 locations for my 2017 trip
Prices gone up by c 10% at least since then
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Prices gone up by c 10% at least since then
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Smokedude
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Have a look at the concessions around lake Kariba. You will get some awesome fishing in as well. Them tiggers put up a mean fight.
The topography in that area with the thick Jess added in is imo what going after Black Death is all about.
After that it would be Zambia Luangwa Valley.
The topography in that area with the thick Jess added in is imo what going after Black Death is all about.
After that it would be Zambia Luangwa Valley.
Agree on Luangwa. Hunted there several times. Phenomenal buff numbers. Talk to Peter Chipman at Kwalata Safaris. Also only country you can take a Puku
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Smokedude
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Never hunted there but took lot of overland safaris thought to South Luangwa Nat park.
Never a dull moment. From chasing hippos out of the swimming pool. A crock took over the next morning. To having an Elle take my swag from under the truck and stand on it. Clients all thought I was in it lol.
Silly them I was still in the bar.
But the country around was awesome and remote. So a good experience.
If you do have the time after the hunt. Try lower Zambezi Nat park. If you stay on a full moon you generally get a load of wild life through the camp at night. Eles at 6 paces from the WC usual clears the blockages.
Never a dull moment. From chasing hippos out of the swimming pool. A crock took over the next morning. To having an Elle take my swag from under the truck and stand on it. Clients all thought I was in it lol.
Silly them I was still in the bar.
But the country around was awesome and remote. So a good experience.
If you do have the time after the hunt. Try lower Zambezi Nat park. If you stay on a full moon you generally get a load of wild life through the camp at night. Eles at 6 paces from the WC usual clears the blockages.
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Heym SR20
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I knew the Lower Zambezi National Park very well. As a 22 year old in the early 1990’s when it had been closed for many years I had a job exploring it and looking for sites for camps. I had an old series 2 Lightweight land rover called Jemima - she waddled like a duck - that I lived out of. We also were setting up a small holder agriculture scheme up at Petauke.
So my job was a week / ten days up in Sinda negotiating with local chiefs and witch doctors to remove spells off some of my workers who had misbehaved with one of chiefs wives or daughters, and then ten days down in the lower Zambezi just exploring. There were the remains of an old camp at Jeke where the airport is now, other than that nothing. Plenty of elephant, buffalo, lion and hyena.
I was sometimes on my own. Other times with a couple of locals. We weren’t allowed to carry any firearms, but we spent a lot of time on foot amongst big animals. Sometimes they got a bit cheeky and I did have to climb a few trees but what an experience. I did have a hippo once tread over me whilst I was asleep, had a hyena pinch the cool box of beer and a friend charged off after it screaming like banshee and wacking it with a canoe paddle. The hyena dropped the cold box with an expression of WTF and buggered off.
Once got stuck down there by early very heavy rain - all the dongas turned to mud and there were no bridges. Took us four days to get to the base of the escarpment.
Sadly it all came to an end when politics turned sour.
I knew it when it was truly wild.
I have seen the prices the lodges in the Lower Zambezi now charges - way out of my league.
Regularly had ele and wild dogs coming through camp. Never seen as many wild dogs as there
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I was hunting there early 2000s. Lupande. Around 3 hours from Mfuwe. Used love browsing the books in the bar at the airport there on the way out
Is Carl doing ok? He’s not posted for a long time.
Bushwack is doing just that.
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