For you who have hunted in Africa

It all sounds good to me. I love to hunt and love to eat wild game. I fully intend to hunt in Africa but it will take a few years of saving and sacrifice. It looks as if hunting the wildest country is the most expensive. Have any of you hunted the Okavango Delta in Botswana?

Dan
 
samdunc said:
It looks as if hunting the wildest country is the most expensive. Have any of you hunted the Okavango Delta in Botswana?

Dan
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Check out Zimbabwe Dan, the conservancies are huge, and that's an understatement. Nothing went to waste while I was there either, the meat was given to locals, and also sold at $2 / kilo commercially when culling. Going back to Africa in October looks like, but Botswana (Limpopo area).
 
There was a plan afoot to close the Delta to hunting, using it for photo safaris exclusively. I'm not sure when that was to take effect. There are several threads on Accurate Reloading that discuss this issue.

Africa changes quickly. My only regret is not going sooner. Make it happen.
 
jjohnwm said:
There was a plan afoot to close the Delta to hunting, using it for photo safaris exclusively. I'm not sure when that was to take effect. There are several threads on Accurate Reloading that discuss this issue.

Africa changes quickly. My only regret is not going sooner. Make it happen.
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Harry Selby will tell you that his biggest regret was bringing photo-safaris to Botswana when he and all the others were forced out of Kenya.

As for wild country, Zimbabwe's Chewore North and South areas are 800,000 acres in total. The Dande Safari Area is 129,000 acres and the Sapi Safari Area is 291,000 acres. That's a lot of countryside and equates to 1900 square miles of coniguous, non-fenced wild areas. Having been there I feel safe in saying that it's big country and plenty wild enough for me.
 
Thank you,
Zimbabwe is looking starting to look good for me. This is going to be about 3 maybe 4 years in the future. It will take that to get the money together. If I am alive I will make it happen
Thanks all
 
Good God man, even a Newfie can save $25K in 4 years!:p

Seriously though, I put my deposit down in 2009 at the SCI show in January. Booked my flights in October 2009. Paid the balance of my daily fees in April 2010. Paid everything off in September 2010 after the trip (had a few extra trophy fees - these things happen). Paid the shipping in December 2010 and still have yet to pay for the taxidermy (should be done in June 2011). That's 29 months from start to finish. Put in a couple of years of saving before hand and you're set. Plus there's nothign saying you have to do the taxidermy right away. A buddy of mine still has his stuff in a crate at the taxidermist from 2009 (I believe).
 
BigUglyMan said:
Good God man, even a Newfie can save $25K in 4 years!:p

Seriously though, I put my deposit down in 2009 at the SCI show in January. Booked my flights in October 2009. Paid the balance of my daily fees in April 2010. Paid everything off in September 2010 after the trip (had a few extra trophy fees - these things happen). Paid the shipping in December 2010 and still have yet to pay for the taxidermy (should be done in June 2011). That's 29 months from start to finish. Put in a couple of years of saving before hand and you're set. Plus there's nothign saying you have to do the taxidermy right away. A buddy of mine still has his stuff in a crate at the taxidermist from 2009 (I believe).
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Yup, amortizing over a few years is the way to do it. We were close to four years from first booking until taxidermy was done. We just booked Mozambique for 2012...once is never enough!
 
i loved my experience with Great Kudu in CAR because locals didnt eat it ... Leprosy fear was their concern ... i conclude that i wasn t the only dislike Warthog ... watch out on the warthog skin = amebiasis and it can be bad ....
 
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