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I would take you up on this, but South Africa won't allow bow hunts on rhinos. If that ever changes, I am all over it.

If I could get a bow permit, I would put in a hunt report. Last time, I kept uploading a daily GPS log of all the miles we covered. I won't hunt another elephant unless I can get a bow permit though.

Both. On foot definitely harder and more dangerous.

No, using a bow as a backup would be insane. That said, the stopping power is the top priority for backup weapons.

I will chime in here. I have not hunted an elephant with a bow - I was denied a bow permit in Zimbabwe on my elephant hunt so I had to use a rifle. I do have a bow capable of taking an elephant. It is a 90lb draw Mathews Monster Safari (28.5" draw length, 1,250 grain arrow with I think 116 foot...

Can you get a bow permit for the elephant?

I am not addicted to hunting buffalo. I can quit whenever I want to. I don't want to.

I guess one should ask if your hunting it limited by time or trophy fees. If fees are the limiting factor, then spend more days hunting. I just prefer the hunting with a bow.

Bowhunting only for me. Hit 51 years old today so I figure I probably only have another 20 more tears or so with the bow. Better get to it!!

If we are going old school, I think bow and arrow is the answer.

I have had Cape buffalo filet three times. Two were the best two steaks I have had in my life (one I shot and another was shot by a client who was hunting just before my daughter and I went on our sable hunt). This last one was quite good but not in the top 10. The winner on my last trip was...

Hard to say what would be perfect because each person has their own goals and their own motivations. My perfect hunt if I were single would involve dangerous game like a buffalo, lion or leopard and Kate Upton as a hunting buddy. I am married now, so that perfect hunt would also have to include...

Thank you Lon. I did contact Alfred and he told me no permit for elephant. I just mentioned that five years ago I had an official letter from Zim Parks (I think it was them) denying my permit as somebody above said he never saw anything official. If you could ever get a bow permit for elephant...

I did get an official letter but it was 5 years ago and I cannot find it or even a photo or copy of it. I kept pushing for a permit for elephant with a bow and was told no and when I kept pushing, they finally sent me the letter that also stated I could not use a bow on hippo, rhino and buffalo...

I certainly know it isn't a gimme. I just figure that unless I opt to hunt with dogs, I am going to be doing nocturnal hunts for the leopard and then what am I going to hunt during the day. My preference would be to hunt other DG during the day in addition to the odd plains game for bait. Also...

Here is what I found elsewhere on bow hunting in Zim: BOWHUNTING Bowhunting is legal in Zimbabwe. However, the hunting of pachyderms and thick skinned animals, like elephant, hippo and crocodile, with bows and arrows is no longer permitted. Bow-hunting may only be done with compound bows...

I think the issue is we are being told it is allowed somewhere but I cannot find where it would be allowed and am guessing my outfitter is seeing the same issues. I did not bring up lion or hippo to Alfred. I want to get my leopard in Zim but have been holding off to do that as a combo hunt. 14...

I got in touch with Alfred and he tells me it is still not allowed to bow hunt elephant in Zim.

Not for hippo that I know of

I did contact my outfitter. Still waiting to hear back.

Would LOVE it if we could get some clarification on this. I really do need to redo my elephant since I was denied a bow permit last time I was in Zim. I would like to do a Leopard/Elephant combo hunt and get my Big 5 wrapped up, aside from the rhino which is currently impossible to get a permit...

Your outfitter is in Marken. I am not that familiar with the area. I know there are a TON of blesbok at a concession named Buffelspoor just north of Thabazimbi and next to the Marakele National Park. Still, it is probably a 2 hour drive each way and the last few miles of the road to the...

There is a HUGE difference between a long bow and a compound. While 80# is considered what is needed, I think for long bows that is pushing it. Still, without knowing their draw length and their arrow weight and broadhead choice, it is hard to make a comment without basing it on assumptions. I...

They are in the capital, but you cannot get a permit. Isn't a group of baboons called a congress?

I will confirm the above statement from Adrian is 100% true and an accurate description of the events between us and his efforts. At some point in the future, I am hoping South Africa will change its policy on bow hunting for rhino, hippo, crocodile and elephant. For three of the species, there...

I have six safaris down in Africa. One hunt was a single animal. The next smallest was 3 animals. Generally speaking, even when on a single animal hunt, I will take an animal of opportunity on one or more occasions.

Welcome, NorCal from CentralCal. Hope you enjoy your time here.

I thought @freefall was Canadian but while I do agree we bring our notions and biases, this is a website for hunting Africa. It is in the web address, so there can't be much misunderstanding there. Ironically, one of the few people whose name in the record books is just a number is the...

At the risk of piling on, count me in the herd with the two above me.

There are differing views on the purpose of a record book. The book was originally started by Rowland Ward and it was just a measure of trophy quality to see if the size of horns was stable or falling over time. The original purpose was not for bragging but just to see how the animal horn size...

Not every trophy is something that can be entered into a record book. My latest hunt, one of the top items for me to get was a honey badger. Trophy value is in the eye of the hunter, not in the record book. I ate some of my giraffe, but it wasn't very good. There is no way I am going to eat a...

That sounds to me like a lot of rifle hunters grabbing a bow and then tanking the bow hunting averages. I am all for proficiency tests to get your bow hunting license/tag. I had to attend a hunter safety course here in California. It would have been just as easy to go and do a shooting test to...

I would say that if this happened on Facebook, he probably would have done just that. It is a bit shocking to see that here though it was private at least. In keeping with that, he has not revealed the name of the person of that opinion, which should be kept private. I do think it is a...

I think we would find it easier to explain to a mountain climber how we would not want to take a helicopter from base camp to the top.

And just to add, I have taken 2 Cape buffalo with a bow. Both were down in under a minute from a single arrow. Neither bull ran more than 60 yards. I have 2 lions down via bow and arrow as well and have been denied a bow permit for rhino and elephant. I will continue to apply for them until I am...

Been there, done that. I was on a water buffalo hunt and when we find the water buffalo after looking for him for quite some time, I grab my bow in one hand and the door handle in the other to get out and start stalking. My guide informs me he left his rifle at the lodge and just tells me to...

I will start the countdown clock on my permit application!! Hoping it is approved and looking forward to heading back to South Africa.

Longest part is the permitting process...

Well, I told him I would not pay a deposit for a hunt that everybody tells me he cannot get a permit for. My bow permit was denied so I am not out the time or money. Still bummed I cannot get a bow permit for rhino.

Imitation is the most sincere form of flattery. I will be asking my PH if he would be willing to help me out with such a mount on this next hunt. I hope this is something I am up to the task of but it would be cool to do the mount of at least one animal myself and this might have a much lower...

Well, I think getting stomped by a bison when you travel to a national park to see it is a bit less problematic than being dragged out of your own home by a leopard. One attack is far easier to avoid. (Yet somehow many people seem to not know how to avoid it...)

I really wish South Africa would legalize bow for rhino. I would be there in a flash. If there was anything I could do to facilitate that, I would. Just have to let me know.

I bought an AR for my daughters to start shooting but they didn't take much interest in it. I have an 8-year-old that is getting closer to that age. I am seriously thinking about getting it altered to look a little more appealing to her. This below is what I had in mind:

How can it be far reaching if nobody can easily see it because YouTube has unlisted it. It won’t show up when somebody searches for it and will never be a “recommended” video.

Did anybody notice this film is “unlisted” so if you don’t have a link to it, you cannot find it to watch? If you search for the title, it doesn’t not show up. If you have it in your collection of titles and somebody subs to your account, they won’t see it. Why is it unlisted?

Here is just one example from yesterday on another hunting web site: I asked if he made the same statement about all sheep hunts or anybody who shoots an Alaskan brown or grizzly bear, since all those hunts cost more than my elephant hunt. The cheapest sheep hunts cost more than my elephant...

While they don't have a record book, doesn't GSCO have something similar where you can submit animals that are below the record book level for the purpose of tracking your slam? I know there is an incentive to hunt an animal to submit into the record book, but I have taken giraffe, zebra and...

Can we expand on this and add in the GSCO Hunter & Outfitter Convention? I have only been to a few SCI events, back when they were in Vegas. I have not been to DSC and while Texas isn't too far from California, getting my wife to go to Vegas is pretty easy and she can have fun in the casinos...

I guess we are not allowed to link to that website. It was blacked out in my thread alert email and the link isn't even in your reply. Still interested in the story now but I don't know where I would need to go and find it to read about it...

I actually had a similar break on a broadhead back in 2019 but I also hit a spine on a blue wildebeest at an extreme quartering shot and I was not really surprised by that. Of course, I didn't lose my bull or even misplace him for a while. I simply put another arrow in him and was done. Sucks to...