I’ve hunted with Mayo Oldiri in both the forest (bongo, sitatunga) and the savannah (LDE, etc.). Hunts were both successful and reports are somewhere in here.
Both hunts were with Guav Johnson, who, I hate to say it (in case he reads this), I believe is one of the best PHs in Africa. I don’t think he hunts the forest anymore, but he does hunt the savannah.
They do have some great areas. The only knock, and whether you call it that depends on what you’re looking for, is that their camps are pretty rustic (and I’ve hunted some rustic places). There are much nicer camps, available with some other outfitters in Cameroon, which have virtually the same reputation as Mayo Oldiri. Some other outfitters even have air conditioning, which, depending on your sensitivity to heat and humidity, can be a godsend in Cameroon.
I also think that that they “mis-handled” my forest hunt. I was confirmed in a particular camp, and on arrival was told I would be going to a new camp “in a new area, not hunted for many years”. That was true - the area hadn’t been hunted, and because of that, the poachers had had a field day. We found poacher’s camps virtually every day, but no animals, not even duiker. After more than a week of this, and making a fuss, I was sent back to the original camp. It turned out that a famous Mexican hunter had requested to hunt the camp I had originally been assigned to, and so I was bumped. Since he got what he wanted in the camp I was supposed to be in, he apparently was prepared to ”allow me” to come back. I got both animals I was looking for there.
They may disagree with this ”cause and effect” but both my booking agent (who was with me) and the Mexican’s booking agent who was in camp with him, were of the same mind.
Left a bad taste.