SOUTH AFRICA: Is hunting Cape Buffalo on a Game Farm More Dangerous

[KWALATA SAFARIS]

Gerritt and Jaco,

Thanks for sharing your thoughts on the experience of hunting Cape Buffalo. My experience has been dreaming about it for the past several years, reading about it in countless books, ie Boddington on Buffalo and Horned Death by Burger, saving enough money to go for the experience and bringing my wife along to take part, planning and practicing off sticks, and then counting the days till my trip.

My favorite part of Africa - never knowing what the next couple of seconds might look, sound, and feel like....always an adventure around every corner.

I am also planning on hunting Honey Badger on our trip....

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You will enjoy it I'm sure, just check with John Henry on the badger, and export reg. they change it about 2-3 times a season...

Happy hunting..

My best always

 

[ChasingHemingway]

I have only encountered Buffalo on three of my hunts in Africa. When I hunted them in the Metetsi region of Zimbabwe, the buffalo were completely wild, skittish, and hard to find. Both of my PHs and I were very relieved when I killed my buffalo on the last afternoon of the last day of my hunt there.

I wasn't hunting buffalo in South Africa, but three of the properties that I hunted PG on, two in the Limpopo and one in the Eastern Cape, had buffalo on them. All of those properties were 10,000 acres or larger. The buffalo were pretty docile, and we saw them every time we went to certain areas of the properties. The bulls that I saw in South Africa had larger horns than the bull that I shot in Zimbabwe, but I am very pleased with my Zim bull.

I have seen buffalo in SA from a vehicle and they seemed to be docile however I wonder if the vehicle was a game changer. Were you on foot or in a vehicle?

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[ChasingHemingway]

You will enjoy it I'm sure, just check with John Henry on the badger, and export reg. they change it about 2-3 times a season...

Happy hunting..

My best always

Jaco,

Thanks I have heard it is hard to obtain a permit, but it is in the works. Is it hard to export to the US and have you had any success in hunting the Honey Badger?