Ammo selection for Africa, warthog, bush pig and impala
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Warthog skulls are pretty cool too.....Bush pigs are actually a fairly rare trophy. Definitely on my wish list.
We usually do about $100 a day. That's more than many of them make for a wage. We typically give the camp staff about $50 a day to share among them.
That's very reasonable as is the quote for the 5 day hunt.
warthog skulls you can do so much with, I have Europeans lovely, mounted and capped tusks in silver, a snout mount and of course just tusks, Ive also made key chains out of my smaller tusks, let the locals turn my kudu horn cores into candle holders and had all the back skins turned into flat rugs, hell I cant even do it that cheap, which leeds to the all mighty tip. Tip your PH on his quality of work and what you are seeing for trophies, in days past I would not even blink an eye to buy them a high end scope thats taboo now, dangerous game about 200 a day if he has to save your bacon, I would consider more. If your cook is dynamic ive got no problems with a hundred or so, your camp cleaners and laundry girls should also be given some love try and pay in local currency, dont forget the average income is less than 500 per year so 20 in local currency goes a long way. I also leave any kit that I dont want to take back, there is always a leatherman, and toiletries hell your going home do you really want to haul it back. Last year I left my old gortex boots, they had seen 3 safaris and countless hunts and travels around the world, as I was pulling out of camp my skinner was wearing them looking like I had just given him a new cadillac. If you know there will be kids in the camp its nothing to shove a bunch of crayons, paper, pencils as much candy as a you can carry, LED flashlights, the list can go on forever. They live a pretty spartan life over there, in as much I brought 8 pair of the forever socks from bass pro and handed them out to the elders, they where in seventh heaven, you take care of them they will take care of you ten fold. Im just a regular joe and save my pennies for these trips and have come to the realization a tip in Africa means a lot more than a tip in north america, money well spent in my humble opinion
Ya labour is extremely cheap over there...some plains game PHs in South Africa can be paid as little $50 a day. Even a guy with his own truck only fetches $100-150 a day in South Africa.
Ardent
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Tip as you go or at the end?
Then you're assured of a good time.Good take on it.
Thanks and I'm hoping that any meat will be used locally.
I always tip at the end.
NEVER, NEVER, tip during the hunt.....only at the end or you will have an angry PH. Some of the camp staff may up and evaporate if they have money before the end of the hunt.
Geo, I have shot many tons of meat in Africa and I have never seen so much as 1 oz go to waste.........you needn't worry about that.
Geo, I have shot many tons of meat in Africa and I have never seen so much as 1 oz go to waste.........you needn't worry about that.
Ardent
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You will never see an animal more thoroughly used than in Africa, as Doug points out. My lion was a pink skeleton, it looked like it was on its way to being a museum display, three hours after it was shot- even the tail fleshed out to bone. Literally scraped clean.
Animal and meat use in Africa makes us as hunters in NA look pretty bad, really. Bones are cracked for marrow, ALL organs are eaten, etc, and people that need the protein more than we ever will eat it. African hunting is probably the greenest business on earth as money is made off natural species and nature, locals in need of high quality protein are fed, and hard currency injected into the local economy making wild land valuable and fostering its preservation. Those against it are utterly clueless to the realities of Africa, without hunting the areas will quickly be repopulated with cattle and the native species wiped out. TIA.
I used exclusively 300 grain Swift A-frame's in my. 375 H & H model 70 for my Namibian safari several years ago. I took a warthog, springbok, kudu, gemsbok, mountain zebra and just for the fun of it a baboon.
All except the zebra were one shot kills. In my opinion you can't beat the A-frame. The only bullet recovered was from the kudu and it retained 89% of it's weight after traveling through an 800 lb. animal. Bullet performance just doesn't get any better than that.
All except the zebra were one shot kills. In my opinion you can't beat the A-frame. The only bullet recovered was from the kudu and it retained 89% of it's weight after traveling through an 800 lb. animal. Bullet performance just doesn't get any better than that.
Well the Alberta average for rams harvested is 7.5 years old....so we are already there. I was fortunate enough to be on two successful sheep hunts last year. The first ram was 8.5 years old and 3 inches legal on the one side, broomed back to the point of barely legal on the other. The second ram was 7.5 years old. Had both lamb tips and was 1.5 inches legal. Neither ram was even close to full curl yet any sheep hunter would be proud of a mature ram like that.
