Free Range Kudu Hunt Special

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This is your opportunity to hunt free range kudu in the Eastern Cape during June and July.

There are very few places where you can hunt free range kudu. The Tootabi Valley delivers stunning bulls every year. Come and enjoy some of the finest plains game hunting with us.

For $3000 you get.

- 8 Nights and 7 Hunting days
- One Kudu
- All accomodation, food and drinks
- Services of professional hunter
- Field preparation of trophies to the point where they are delivered at taxidermist
- Less 20% on trophy list for extra animals

Not Included

- Any additional animals taken
- Tips

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Free range, gotta love that!

You sure know how to make it hard on a guy Beans, especially with the new lodge being built and ready....
 
Beautiful Kudu, I really like the East Cape kudu. Forrest
 
This is a great deal. You should have no problem filling............
 
Great offer. This is the type of deal that makes elk hunting in the states look expensive. Good luck to whomever can take advantage of it.
 
@thi9elsp , thank you for the comment.

Hunting a free range kudu is one of the best hunts ever. @dae have hunted kudu with me a couple of years ago and when he came to visit last year he said that he would like to hunt another kudu with me. He said that just at looking at my body language he could see I become someone else when hunting for a kudu.

We took our time looking over some bulls but the afternoon we saw this guy the hunt was on! After seeing this guy and collecting him later that afternoon was awesome.

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The free range bulls have much nicer markings on them and have much bigger bodies
 
Tootabi Valley Safaris said:
The free range bulls have much nicer markings on them and have much bigger bodies
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I'm sorry Beans but I don't believe that statement is true. I have high fence and low fence property and my records over 30 years suggest no difference whatsoever. I haven't heard anyone else have that opinion either.
 
The late mr Biggs who had the farm Glen Boyd near Grahamstown was one of the first farms ever to be high fenced.
He had record of every kudu that was shot, where on the property it was shot, horn length and carcas weight.
Just before he passed away we had a look at years of info.
Mature bulls were just over 40 inches, weighing at 110 -120kg carcass weights.
That was a big difference from the early years where bulls was heavier and average horn lenght deep in the fourties

I will try and find out from one of his sons if they still have that book.

Philip Tibs of Kirkwood has a family farm just outside of Kirkwood that has been fenced for many years.
Carcass weights of mature bulls is around 120-130 kg. He has a butchery and knows the weights of his kudu because they get prosessed there. He has talked about it a lot. Bulls have thin necks and hardly any stripes on the sides.

It is not uncommom for me to shoot free range bulls of 180+kg.
Heaviest bull that we have record of at my place was 203 kg carcass. That is the weight that I was paid for by Austin Wild of Cookhouse, not my scale.

@BRICKBURN , on a fenced property we always shoot the best animals we can. Over years what is left to breed if we keep shooting the best animals? Unless you bring in new genetics.
 
I'm generalizing from my experience here. You may find different on other properties and areas. Those weights and horn lengths you're listing for Mr Bigg's property are below average for eastern cape kudu anywhere. I've shot high fenced kudu above 180kg, 50 inches plus. Heaviest 212kg on record. Shot 2 big bulls a couple of years ago 195 and 197kg. I've shot similar on low fenced properties. There is no difference whatsoever here and anywhere else I've hunted between low and high fenced properties. And I've hunted some big properties

Don't mean too call you out here but I just think generalizations like this are irresponsible and unwarranted especially when it appears you have a commercial interest in the statement in support of your "free range kudu" post.

Those kudu pics you posted on your offer for example are no bigger than kudu I've seen hunted on high fenced properties. I've seen bigger than that on both high fenced and low fenced properties.

That's my opinion and I'm out of this discussion now.
 
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I stand on my point.

Size of a property and the length of time the property has been fenced do play a role with quality of kudu.

I do hunt fenced and free range kudu.

In this thread I do sell a free range hunt.
 
Tootabi Valley Safaris said:
@thi9elsp , thank you for the comment.

Hunting a free range kudu is one of the best hunts ever. @dae have hunted kudu with me a couple of years ago and when he came to visit last year he said that he would like to hunt another kudu with me. He said that just at looking at my body language he could see I become someone else when hunting for a kudu.

We took our time looking over some bulls but the afternoon we saw this guy the hunt was on! After seeing this guy and collecting him later that afternoon was awesome.

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That was a great hunt for a magnificent bull!
I've hunted 10 or 12 different species with Beans and he did a great job on all of them, but kudu do something to him. Maybe it has something to do with his blood pressure. I think bushbuck do that to him too!
I think this is a great deal. I highly recommend it!
 
Great deal Beans!!
I've seen those big bodied bulls in your area and at this rate I might even consider paying you a visit in April, May when they are in the rut!! Surely you have more than one of these great deals available!!??
 
I agree. Free range Kudu are beautiful, with spectacular color and markings. I believe the Eastern Cape is some of the most gorgeous topography one could hunt. Here is mine from 2015. Kevin
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A new property that has never been hunted in the Tootabi Valley has just allowed me to hunt 2 kudu bulls for the 2016 season.
Do not miss out on this deal
 
No question that this is a good deal!
 
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