What cost in African Safaris is sustainable?

What kind of number would you have to be at for kudu, oryx, zebra, springbok and warthog or similar

  • below $10,000 fair dinky deal

  • $10,000- 15,000 eh only money

  • $15,000-25,000

  • $25,000-50,000 Texas game ranch prices almost

  • $50,000- and up, fully Texas game ranch prices

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I think about the advancing age of hunters globally, and I wonder what price point is sustainable?

In 2005, I spent $5500 plus air fare, tips, rental firearms and some extra animals on a 10 day 10 animal safari in Namibia. Included kudu, 2 oryx, 2 springbuck, 1 blesbok, Mountain Zebra, warthog, steenbok, and a red hartbeest. It was my first safari so it was perfect and even with all the problems, I knew I wanted to go back.

I have spent most of the last 21 years either in the military and half way broke, newly married and fully broke, or hunting in Europe and North America. I have been lucky enough to do hunts in with locals while deployed there, but nothing of any scale, just a few days int he bush. Things are better now, and I am looking south again and thinking where to go, and what to do.

I priced a variety of plains game safaris with a few different outfitters in Namibia, Botswana, and South Africa today and built similar packages to what I had back in 2005.

I see similar African safaris to my 2005 effort for $10,000-20,000 depending on the outfitter and country.

5-7 animals over 7-10 days seems to hover around $5500-8500. Which I am fine with as inflation globally is a thing, and demand.
 
DieJager said:
Easily below 5k excluding airline tickets
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Yes with Henrik.

He is probably my top choice, and I'll add days and animals to get what I want.
 
Muskox said:
Yes with Henrik.

He is probably my top choice, and I'll add days and animals to get what I want.
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You'll not be disappointed. Especially since you've been on a lots of European hunts and been around a lot of German hunters. That is the clientele he caters to.
 
I think you are right about that.

I worry about the future, with all the $5000 kudu I keep seeing in South Africa. Some are more.
 
Today, the taxidermy and getting it shipped to you is where you are going to spend a lot of money. I am done with the taxidermy unless I would decide to do a european mount. Today, photos are just fine for me and the memories.
You could easily do all you want on your list plus some for under $10K I think.
 
My first in 2021 was right around 7K for 10 animals, to include a cow buffalo. In 2023 it was a similar cost for 8 animals, to include a cow buffalo. That was excluding air fare and tips.
 
AND MAYBY FROM A CONSUMERS STANDPOINT, HATE TO ADMIT, BUT MAYBY THE "GREY GHOST" HAS BEEN A BIT UNDERPRICED IN RECENT PAST.
 
Excluding airfare and taxidermy, I would say $10k or less.

SETH RINGER said:
AND MAYBY FROM A CONSUMERS STANDPOINT, HATE TO ADMIT, BUT MAYBY THE "GREY GHOST" HAS BEEN A BIT UNDERPRICED IN RECENT PAST.
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I might argue that they were fairly priced, and now overpriced. I paid $2300 for mine in 2023. Now I am seeing like $4000 on the low end to upwards of $5000 on the high end. For comparison, a sable when we went was $4200, now it's $4600.

It's been discussed a little on here. They became so popular concessions and outfitters are marking them up. Sable seem to be going the other direction.
 
Muskox said:
I think about the advancing age of hunters globally, and I wonder what price point is sustainable?

In 2005, I spent $5500 plus air fare, tips, rental firearms and some extra animals on a 10 day 10 animal safari in Namibia. Included kudu, 2 oryx, 2 springbuck, 1 blesbok, Mountain Zebra, warthog, steenbok, and a red hartbeest. It was my first safari so it was perfect and even with all the problems, I knew I wanted to go back.

I have spent most of the last 21 years either in the military and half way broke, newly married and fully broke, or hunting in Europe and North America. I have been lucky enough to do hunts in with locals while deployed there, but nothing of any scale, just a few days int he bush. Things are better now, and I am looking south again and thinking where to go, and what to do.

I priced a variety of plains game safaris with a few different outfitters in Namibia, Botswana, and South Africa today and built similar packages to what I had back in 2005.

I see similar African safaris to my 2005 effort for $10,000-20,000 depending on the outfitter and country.

5-7 animals over 7-10 days seems to hover around $5500-8500. Which I am fine with as inflation globally is a thing, and demand.
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Perfect example, go to @game4africa right now and see their package hunt at $5,000 for a kudu, black or blue wildebeest, zebra, impala and spring bok...add a Gemsbok you still come in less than $7,000 for all with a fantastic experience...it was my very first safari and is to this day still an incredible experience!!! To this day, I have not found a better value for the money which is why I struggle to pay more in SA. Now when you talk about Zim, Moz, Zambia, Tanzania, you are in a whole new ball game and a different type of hunt, so country matters greatly in your survey.
 
Here is the current ad for G4A. Hard to beat with such a reputable outfitter.
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The G4A Spiral Slam package is the real deal in my lowly opinion. $6950? Yes...
 
HookMeUpII said:
I might argue that they were fairly priced, and now overpriced. I paid $2300 for mine in 2023. Now I am seeing like $4000 on the low end to upwards of $5000 on the high end. For comparison, a sable when we went was $4200, now it's $4600.

It's been discussed a little on here. They became so popular concessions and outfitters are marking them up. Sable seem to be going the other direction.
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It’s called supply in demand. Sable used to be in the $8-12k range, game farms started breeding the shit out of them and boom, market is flooded.

Kudu were priced fairly for the markets demand. As safaris got more popular demand spiked and prices had to increase in order to adjust/balance the demand while we wait for the game breeders to catch up on the numbers of mature kudu since most properties can only sustain a small number in a huntable age class. It’s also why we’ve seen less truly mature bulls being posted in people’s photos.
 
Rare Breed said:
Perfect example, go to @game4africa right now and see their package hunt at $5,000 for a kudu, black or blue wildebeest, zebra, impala and spring bok...add a Gemsbok you still come in less than $7,000 for all with a fantastic experience...it was my very first safari and is to this day still an incredible experience!!! To this day, I have not found a better value for the money which is why I struggle to pay more in SA. Now when you talk about Zim, Moz, Zambia, Tanzania, you are in a whole new ball game and a different type of hunt, so country matters greatly in your survey.
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Good deal but still a bit behind the 10 Day/12 Animal/$9500 Package Frontier offers that includes Kudu. That's the one that's pretty hard to beat.
 
Approximately $ 7,500.00 plus airfare $ 2,000.00ish) in the Eastern Cape. You should be good to go with $ 10,000.00 based on several of the PH's that I've gotten proposals from for the 2026 hunting season.
 
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