Safari Cost

Not all of Namibia has large or big ranches and so RSA not all small ranches. They are infenced, yes, but in RSA there is still free range area's available...Why Namibia has these bigger or larger ranches is because of the carry capasity on the fields for the animals. RSA has them also, if you go to the Karoo or even the Kalahari regions or any place where water is not abundant, you will find larger ranches...South Africa is the only country to have more than 14 huntable species (like Namibia), we have 42...

South Africa and Namibia are the better options if it will be your first African experience...NOT all cheap, but you get cheaper package options: e.g OF SUCH A PACKAGE DEAL

All trophy animals

7 days, 6 nights, 5 full days hunting, 1 arrival day, 1 departure day for:

1. Blue Wildebeest
2. Impala
3. Blesbuck
4. Warthog

Price: US2 570


Included:
Add extra animals to your hunt and pay only the trophy fee extra;
Hunts include pickup and return to Johannesburg International airport;
Ground transportation;
Lodging;
Meals and drinks (Soft drinks, bottled water and beer);
Laundry;
Transportation of trophies to a local taxidermy;
Hunting licences;
Skinning / salting of trophies;
Services of tracker / skinner;
Licensed Professional Hunter.


Not included:
Airfare;
Dip / pack;
Shipment of trophies to the hunter destination;
Taxidermy costs;
Gratuity;
Air charters;
Hotel accommodation before and after the safari;
Items of a personal nature and Rifle import permits.
 
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Ardent said:
Careful where that .375 may lead you... :) Good choice, Cape Buffalo is a good hunt, and you can usually take plains game on the side if it presents itself.

I know a good operator booking Cape Buff culls in Zimbabwe at $9,000us, figure a total cost of $16,000-17,000 Canuck, doesn't get cheaper than that. No export though, on cull hunted animals.
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Ardent,

culls in Zim. tell me more. because PACs are prohibited for non-resident and never heard about culling hunt for big five there (doesnt mean the locals dont do it).
all the best.
 
Not PAC but straight cull, they cull Impala as well. The Cape Buff culls also serve to improve the genetics of the herd, mine was an very mature 36" bull. Huge body, but not the biggest horn, the guys like the one in my Megafauna article (he's still alive) have room made for them. Horns as you know well don't indicate dominance, my smaller horned fellow was keeping the bigger, younger guy at bay and alone without mates. Now, I'm not sure how this is done for the paper side of it all, as I was told don't even try to export on mine.
 
Bushwack said:
Not all of Namibia has large or big ranches and so RSA not all small ranches. .
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And not all of Namibia is ranch hunting. There are a very large number of free-range conservancies owned by the local people and the hunting rights are leased out to PHs for three-year periods. If a person is set on a free-range hunt with a bit of a wild Africa experience without breaking the bank, this is certainly a good way to get you feet wet.
 
True indeed, the Caprivi strip has been captivating my interest and rendering my booking finger itchy for some time. Kalahari South Africa is as Bushwack mentions a more natural experience within RSA, as the carrying capacity is relatively low for game and the areas often enormous, I hunted there in February right on the border and we enjoyed ourselves. The Gemsbok hunting in particular was some of the most fun I've had in Africa. It's the periphery that's a good deal different, as it is all quite safe, no malaria, generally no tick fever, flights and transport are easy and reliable, camps are luxurious and fixed, and so forth. Very much westernized Africa. If you're after a vacation, there's nothing bad about that and I enjoy it immensely myself when the mind is geared for it. We really enjoyed the parks as a family, too.

It is quite worth the warning however for Canadians, that it can be a start for many folk's first trip to find themselves driving through ranches and maize to the RSA farm to go hunting, and lying on a bed in a room with aircon after the hunt. At least from Canada, where we are blessed with one of the largest wide open wildernesses on earth, and we assume it will be like that there. Many Canadian's idea of African hunting would be a good deal different than what they'd find on arrival, and I've had this conversation with quite a few Canadians in just that position after their first trip. When you can pitch a tent and hunt on Crown land in wilderness at home, there is 9,000,000sq kms of it in Canada, or eight times the entire area of RSA and just in public / wild land, it can be quite an adjustment. We're blessed here, and blessed to be able to hunt abroad as well to change the flavour, just make sure the flavour you pick is the one you want as it's a big investment.
 
I tell you, there is merit to the cost of not going.

My father is the person that started me hunting. We planned to go to RSA together in 2007 but he had to bail because he got ill. When my brother and I approached him to go with us in 2009 he said he couldn't do it saying "I think it's past me." Nothing quite as crushing as hearing words like that.

You can get more of just about anything, except time. You only get so much of it, better to spend it thinking about things you did than things you put off too long.
 
BigUglyMan said:
I tell you, there is merit to the cost of not going.

My father is the person that started me hunting. We planned to go to RSA together in 2007 but he had to bail because he got ill. When my brother and I approached him to go with us in 2009 he said he couldn't do it saying "I think it's past me." Nothing quite as crushing as hearing words like that.

You can get more of just about anything, except time. You only get so much of it, better to spend it thinking about things you did than things you put off too long.
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I agree with you. My old man died when he was 44 years old. We had so many trips planned.
 
We should have a group trip in honour of those who passed before their time or before they could fulfill a desire to do a specific hunt. Each person would have to bring enough cigars to give one to each member of the group on one night and a good bottle of scotch. Each night around the campfire would be dedicated to one person who has passed on to the other side and the hunter who represents said person would pass around the cigars and scotch and tell a story.
 
1899 said:
We should have a group trip in honour of those who passed before their time or before they could fulfill a desire to do a specific hunt. Each person would have to bring enough cigars to give one to each member of the group on one night and a good bottle of scotch. Each night around the campfire would be dedicated to one person who has passed on to the other side and the hunter who represents said person would pass around the cigars and scotch and tell a story.
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This sounds like a job for...SOMA!!!
 
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