$25,000 in Africa excluding, flights, tips, and trophy shipment what would you do?

[Muskox]

If someone gave you a $25,000 voucher for hunting. Couldn't use it on air fare, tips or trophy shipment what would you do with it?

II have come up with 4 solutions that I think I would like, not in any kind of order. I live in Europe, and travel to most of Africa is really easy. Get on the airplane in the evening and wake up in Africa in the morning.

 

[Northern Shooter]

So flights, tips and taxidermy would be in addition to the 25k?

I'd do a mixed bag Bull Cape Buffalo & Plains Game hunt.
-Buffalo
-Sable
-Kudu
-Eland-
-Blue Wildebeest
- Zebra

and a few smaller ones.

 

[SETH RINGER]

TUSKLESS/BUFF AND WHATEVER PG YOU COULD SQUEEZE UNDER THE LIMIT.

 

[375Fox]

I think I’d hunt buffalo in Zambezi valley in Zimbabwe along with a few PG and some tiger fishing. Thankfully there are a lot of good options inside that budget.

 

[Doug Hamilton]

So flights, tips and taxidermy would be in addition to the 25k?

I'd do a mixed bag Bull Cape Buffalo & Plains Game hunt.
-Buffalo
-Sable
-Kudu
-Eland-
-Blue Wildebeest
- Zebra

and a few smaller ones.

I like your list, but I would add bushbuck, and maybe swap.out one of the others for nyala is they were available n the area he chooses.

That's the problem with Africa. Too many decisions to make.

 

[Tundra Tiger]

Elephant... and a gun to shoot it with.

 

[Muskox]

So flights, tips and taxidermy would be in addition to the 25k?

I'd do a mixed bag Bull Cape Buffalo & Plains Game hunt.
-Buffalo
-Sable
-Kudu
-Eland-
-Blue Wildebeest
- Zebra

and a few smaller ones.

Yes!

 

[Muskox]

I am thinking I would want to buy as much of a Tarzan experience as I could get with as much shooting as I could get in Zimbabwe.

 

[Muskox]

I think I’d hunt buffalo in Zambezi valley in Zimbabwe along with a few PG and some tiger fishing. Thankfully there are a lot of good options inside that budget.

Why the Zambezi over the Save?

 

[VINOYASADO]

BUFFALO, BUFFALO AND MORE BUFALO!

 

[375Fox]

Why the Zambezi over the Save?

I think I’d be extremely happy with Save too, but if I was going to try and justify a choice I think it would be because much larger concessions in Zambezi valley plus tiger fishing on the Zambezi river. Save Valley has much more PG though.

 

[Muskox]

I think I’d be extremely happy with Save too, but if I was going to try and justify a choice I think it would be because much larger concessions in Zambezi valley plus tiger fishing on the Zambezi river. Save Valley has much more PG though.

Good to know.

 

[rookhawk]

If someone gave you a $25,000 voucher for hunting. Couldn't use it on air fare, tips or trophy shipment what would you do with it?

II have come up with 4 solutions that I think I would like, not in any kind of order. I live in Europe, and travel to most of Africa is really easy. Get on the airplane in the evening and wake up in Africa in the morning.

Late season deal on Zimbabwe 18 day hunt for exportable trophy elephant and another DG animal as well: leopard, buffalo, croc, hippo.

 

[375Fox]

I am thinking I would want to buy as much of a Tarzan experience as I could get with as much shooting as I could get in Zimbabwe.

Just to make sure you have the right expectations. I love hunting Zimbabwe but it’s not a destination you generally leave with a huge bag of animals. Hunts are built around DG and some incidental PG. Many areas will actually have more buffalo on quota than individual PG. It’s a place you work for what you get.

 

[rookhawk]

Why the Zambezi over the Save?

Zambezi is a unique-in-all-the-world, storied safari area. I've hunted every province of Zim except the Eastern Highlands. (nobody hunts there). They are all cool places, but the Zambezi Valley is orders of magnitude better than Vic, Bulawayo, Matetsi, Ghonarazou, Deka, Matopos, Tuli, etc.

Having supper while you hear the roars of lions, watching the camp's pet elephant browse camp every night, seeing hippos all over the river, herds of waterbuck grazing on the islands...it's friggin magical.

Sapi and Chewore especially.

 

[Muskox]

Just to make sure you have the right expectations. I love hunting Zimbabwe but it’s not a destination you generally leave with a huge bag of animals. Hunts are built around DG and some incidental PG. Many areas will actually have more buffalo on quota than individual PG. It’s a place you work for what you get.

Thank you, I have never experienced truly wild Africa outside of Djibouti and that was a war-zone so a bit different.

I was very interested in Mozambique on that big reservoir. Then I got told that the bag is basically 1 hippo and 1 croc and maybe a bushbuck if you give it hell and get really lucky.

 

[Muskox]

Zambezi is a unique-in-all-the-world, storied safari area. I've hunted every province of Zim except the Eastern Highlands. (nobody hunts there). They are all cool places, but the Zambezi Valley is orders of magnitude better than Vic, Bulawayo, Matetsi, Ghonarazou, Deka, Matopos, Tuli, etc.

Having supper while you hear the roars of lions, watching the camp's pet elephant browse camp every night, seeing hippos all over the river, herds of waterbuck grazing on the islands...it's friggin magical.

Sapi and Chewore especially.

Thank you.

 

[Field28]

Sitatunga, Sable and Lechewe in Zambia.

 

[rookhawk]

What you could do in the Zambezi Valley ten years ago for the budget the OP cited. (Hippo and tiger fish not shown)

 

[375Fox]

Thank you, I have never experienced truly wild Africa outside of Djibouti and that was a war-zone so a bit different.

I was very interested in Mozambique on that big reservoir. Then I got told that the bag is basically 1 hippo and 1 croc and maybe a bushbuck if you give it hell and get really lucky.

Hunting concession areas is very different than hunting private land in South Africa or Namibia. Certain concessions are more isolated and have better anti-poaching than others. One concession what you wrote might be true. Two concessions over the hunting can be very different. When researching concession areas speak to recent references from the last year and pay for quality. I’d really like to hunt Mozambique but the costs to get trophies home from there really concern me.