Tanzania Plains Game -- Gazelle??

[Wildwillalaska]

Any of you gents have 1st hand recommendations for outfitters in Tanzania for plains game? Tried searching here and even more broadly through google with far less results than expected. Found some wonderful options for dream hunts with full/full-mixed bag to include lion and elephant...someday, not yet. Really looking mostly for at least a Grants Gazelle, but might as well try for more of the subspecies and maybe a buff too.

No time pressure as I head back to RSA in a few weeks with my teen daughter, then have Namibia and Mozambique as most likely stops for 2026 (purchased a couple donor hunts at our wild sheep banquet last weekend), but want to start looking for options in Tanzania, maybe take my daughter again to do a shorter hunt and then the hike up to view the continent's only remnants of glacial times on Kili summit.

Cheers,
Will

 

[cpr0312]

@GAME Trackers AFRICA can help you out.

I hunted with them and had a great time!

 

[375Fox]

It doesn’t get discussed much because Tanzania is unfortunately a very expensive hunt compared to other countries, especially massailand where you’d hunt grant and Thompson gazelles. What’s your budget? I’ll be hunting them next month and can hopefully give a recommendation after that.

 

[318AE]

Tanzania just works a lot different than the RSA or Namibia. Generally higher daily rates, lower trophy fees in many instances and limitations by license duration.

On a short license, you can get Grants and Thomsons gazelle, East African Impala, and buffalo, but not gerenuk, lesser kudu, oryx, eland etc. Other than Masailand, you will generally pay for a charter. There are buffalo in Masailand, but not a prolific as elsewhere. Masailand is mostly game management areas and not game reserves. The game management areas can have a lot on Masai and their goats. The game reserves hunting is a true wilderness area hunt, almost like a national park. Both are entirely unfenced.

I’m not familiar with any gazelle much south of Masailand, ie in the Selous Kizigo, Muhesi etc. The East African impala are generally larger the further north you go.

Masailand is awesome. It tough to have a bad trip there. Adam Clements has some short hunts that include gazelle and buffalo and can be combined with northern circuit sight seeing etc.

 

[dchum]

^^

Ya Adam Clement’s in his lake Natron area would be nice to collect some gazelles and explore massai land

 

[DLSJR]

@Wildwillalaska reach out to Ernest Dyason of @Spear Safaris who is a sponsor here. Ernest hunts Tanzania, specifically Masailand, a lot. He’s a damned good PH and great guy to spend time with. And since he does his Tanzania hunts through KNS, he hunts some excellent concessions.

 

[Scott CWO]

Wife and I were in Massailand for two weeks in 2017. Great trip. You can buy the 21 day license to get gazelles, gerenuk, lesser kudu, fringe-eared oryx and multiple buffalo but hunt just 14 days to save some money on daily rates.

 

[DLSJR]

Wife and I were in Massailand for two weeks in 2017. Great trip. You can buy the 21 day license to get gazelles, gerenuk, lesser kudu, fringe-eared oryx and multiple buffalo but hunt just 14 days to save some money on daily rates.

That is THE way to do it, in my opinion. Depending on the block, 10-14 days with a 21-day license. When I get around to hunting Masailand, that’s exactly how I’ll be doing it.

 

[ActionBob]

That is THE way to do it, in my opinion. Depending on the block, 10-14 days with a 21-day license. When I get around to hunting Masailand, that’s exactly how I’ll be doing it.

You can also arrange to use the balance of your license in another area. You will lose a day traveling and it will add expense but for example you could go to hunt buffalo for a week in an area where they are more prolific.

Also ne aware the Masailand hunts are in high demand for what's available so they are expensive. I'm told 8 to 10 days is enough time but haven't hunted there yet. I believe if you want the 3 gazelles you need to hunt one specific area and need the long license.

Another piece of advice I recieved is to spend the money to hunt everything available there and just do it all on your first hunt to Masaeland because it will be extremely expensive to go back and finish should you ever want those extra critters. But this advice was from a guy pursuing his World Hunter Award or something of that sort.

 

[buck wild]

These guys do a lot of north Tanz hunts. I have no specific association with them.

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[Philip Glass]

Any of you gents have 1st hand recommendations for outfitters in Tanzania for plains game? Tried searching here and even more broadly through google with far less results than expected. Found some wonderful options for dream hunts with full/full-mixed bag to include lion and elephant...someday, not yet. Really looking mostly for at least a Grants Gazelle, but might as well try for more of the subspecies and maybe a buff too.

No time pressure as I head back to RSA in a few weeks with my teen daughter, then have Namibia and Mozambique as most likely stops for 2026 (purchased a couple donor hunts at our wild sheep banquet last weekend), but want to start looking for options in Tanzania, maybe take my daughter again to do a shorter hunt and then the hike up to view the continent's only remnants of glacial times on Kili summit.

Cheers,
Will

Tanzania is quite complicated. What you are asking for is a PG hunt in Massailand. I did this very hunt a few years ago with Michelle Mantheakis and highly recommend him. He had a PG 10 day special that I jumped on. Be prepared, Tanzania is terribly expensive. I priced this hunt for 10 years before finding something that worked for me.
Side note: Lesser Kudu and Gerenuk were some of the best venison I've ever had.

 

[318AE]

That is THE way to do it, in my opinion. Depending on the block, 10-14 days with a 21-day license. When I get around to hunting Masailand, that’s exactly how I’ll be doing it.

Some outfitters allow you to “license up” and some do not. You can always talk to them about it of course.

There is generally much less quota for the species on the longer license, and the outfitter runs the risks of not having quota for the hunters that season that are staying longer, if they sell too many short hunts with long licenses.

 

[318AE]

^^

Ya Adam Clement’s in his lake Natron area would be nice to collect some gazelles and explore massai land

I’ve hunted four different GMAs in Masailand, including both sides of Lake Natron. When I head back next month, I’m going to Adam’s area on the east side of Natron…. It’s perhaps my favorite area in Africa.

 

[LivingTheDream]

These guys do a lot of north Tanz hunts. I have no specific association with them.

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This is who I hunted with. Amazing outfitter!

 

[Spear Safaris]

As mentioned above, I am licensed in Tanzania under the Mother company Kilombero North Safaris.
We hunt 2 amazing blocks in Masaailand. Enduiment, and Lake Natron west. We can offer just about all the species available in masaailand, but if its just the gazelles you want, we can do that in Natron west on a short hunt. I personally love the wet season best, march to may. Attached a few Photos from a recent hunt.
Please feel free to reach out for more details. Info@spearsafaris.com.
Cheers Ernest

 

[wesheltonj]

I will be hunting Mto-wa-Mbu game area shortly and the lodge is on Mt Losimingori. I've heard conflicting stories about the area. I guess that I will find out first hand. I have a 21day license for a 10 day hunt. If you are not after, Lessor Kudu, Fringed Ear Oryx or Gerenuk, a 7 day license and daily rates are not outrageous, but they are not RSA prices either.

 

[gillettehunter]

@LivingTheDream and I hunted with KNS a few years ago and had a great hunt. Good company to at least talk to.
Bruce

 

[Scott CWO]

IMHO, Robert’s gazelle is the hardest animal to line up. I have yet to see one despite hunting in an area where they were on quota. Grant’s gazelle, Thomson’s gazelle, gerenuk, lesser kudu, fringe-eared oryx, Coke’s hartebeest and white-bearded wildebeest are easier. In addition, there are areas with very good buffalo in Massailand. I could have taken buffalo but it wasn’t my focus. IMHO, you can hunt buffalo all over Africa so it should be secondary to the endemic plains game only found in Massailand. It is challenging to find everything on one trip, especially Robert’s.

 

[Happy Myles]

I have hunted all over Tanzania for many decades and never had a bad operator. As Phillip Glass indicated Michelle Mantheakis is a good one. Also as Scott wrote, do not miss a chance for a Roberts sometimes they take special effort to locate.

 

[Cleathorn]

IMHO, Robert’s gazelle is the hardest animal to line up. I have yet to see one despite hunting in an area where they were on quota. Grant’s gazelle, Thomson’s gazelle, gerenuk, lesser kudu, fringe-eared oryx, Coke’s hartebeest and white-bearded wildebeest are easier. In addition, there are areas with very good buffalo in Massailand. I could have taken buffalo but it wasn’t my focus. IMHO, you can hunt buffalo all over Africa so it should be secondary to the endemic plains game only found in Massailand. It is challenging to find everything on one trip, especially Robert’s.

Scott - you just listed my ideal Tanzanian safari. Agree with you on Buffalo as well. All great information, except, now I want to go to Tanzania!