Any experiences with the forest duiker sub-species?

[Green Chile]

Does anyone here have experiences with the forest duiker sub-species like the zebra duiker, yellow-backed duiker, etc? I know of one outfitter offering hunts in Liberia. What else is available for hunting and with which outfitters?

 

[LivingTheDream]

I know there are few outfitters (@TSALA HUNTING SAFARIS) offering duiker hunts in Gabon. I plan to do at least one jungle hunt in my life, and it might be for duikers.

Or a Bongo, depending on how @gillettehunter trip goes.

 

[gillettehunter]

Congo Forest safaris offers several duikers. Yellow backed, Pieters, Blue, Bay and just a few Vlack fronted duikers. The yellow backed are considered one the rarest and most difficult to hunt of the duikers. They literally bait them with rotten meat (monkey) and they eat the maggots out of them! Very Very shy. Lots of Blue duikers if you spotlighted.
Bruce

 

[375Fox]

There are yellow back duikers on quota in Zambia. Not sure the success rates, but much more easily accessible than some other countries.

 

[Philip Glass]

It's on my radar. I would likely go with The Hunting Consortium for this type of hunt.

 

[Sarg]

Where I hunted in Bissau, we shot Maxwells Duiker, saw a Red Flanked & were in the same jungle as Yellow Backed but I didn't see any !

I believe there are other species there but the Jungle & Cashew Forests aren't the place for a species survey .

 

[Beck]

You're getting into some of the most challenging game on the planet now. It took me three trips just to kill a damn common duiker, little F***ers are elusive.

 

[channelkat]

I would rather hunt some of those little guys, like Royal or yellow backed than a bongo or a leopard. Very high on my list!

 

[Green Chile]

It's on my radar. I would likely go with The Hunting Consortium for this type of hunt.

I thought of them as well. Perhaps we could take a look at a joint venture in the future.

 

[Green Chile]

I know there are few outfitters (@TSALA HUNTING SAFARIS) offering duiker hunts in Gabon. I plan to do at least one jungle hunt in my life, and it might be for duikers.

Or a Bongo, depending on how @gillettehunter trip goes.

Bongo has been on my radar and I would go for one before I would go for a Lord Derby eland. As an alternate thought, you could get a large collection of forest duikers for the cost of 1 bongo. All of them are interesting and beautiful. I definitely want to have some forest hunts in my future. I'm also interested in seeing parts of Africa that are off the common path.

 

[TheGrayRider]

I found hunting the forest duikers by calling them in very difficult in the equatorial jungles of Cameroon last year.

After we finished hunting bongo and forest sitatunga, I missed a blue duiker with the camp shotgun at 20 yards and I also couldn’t get shots at a couple of other duikers that ran in. They are harder to see than one would think and they run in and depart quickly.

We also saw a yellow-backed duiker which is not on license where we hunted in Cameroon. I want to return to the jungle again for a dwarf forest buffalo.

Just go. Tough hunt but extremely rewarding and fulfilling adventure. Happy hunting to all, TheGrayRider a/k/a Tom.

 

[Osama Mahdi]

If I have to choose between Bongo and forest duikers I will go with the latter.
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[Andrew62]

I found hunting the forest duikers by calling them in very difficult in the equatorial jungles of Cameroon last year.

After we finished hunting bongo and forest sitatunga, I missed a blue duiker with the camp shotgun at 20 yards and I also couldn’t get shots at a couple of other duikers that ran in. They are harder to see than one would think and they run in and depart quickly.

We also saw a yellow-backed duiker which is not on license where we hunted in Cameroon. I want to return to the jungle again for a dwarf forest buffalo.

Just go. Tough hunt but extremely rewarding and fulfilling adventure. Happy hunting to all, TheGrayRider a/k/a Tom.

It's hard to describe just how dark the rain forest is when you are in it. At 12 noon you'd swear the sun was setting. I did not find jungle hunting in Cameroon physically demanding, but it damn sure is a mental mission. Hard to tell people that when you drive down those logging roads you will see NO open fields, just a tall wall of green jungle that you have to hack your way through.

 

[TheGrayRider]

It's hard to describe just how dark the rain forest is when you are in it. At 12 noon you'd swear the sun was setting. I did not find jungle hunting in Cameroon physically demanding, but it damn sure is a mental mission. Hard to tell people that when you drive down those logging roads you will see NO open fields, just a tall wall of green jungle that you have to hack your way through.

Exactly. Many adventurers can’t comprehend visibility of 6 inches at times while hunting in the equatorial African jungle.

Nothing is easy in the jungle. I loved every minute of it! Happy hunting to all, TheGrayRider a/k/a Tom.

 

[channelkat]

I know my dream trip would be a dwarf buffalo, all the duiker and to catch one of those Goliath Tigers! I’m plotting, but think I’m a good 5-6 years out:/

Love reading /seeing all the posts on these jungle hunts

 

[MLindsay]

As I have said many times, I am more at home in the forest than anywhere in Africa. I have been blessed and spent a total of 61 days in the forest with more than half just me and the pygmies.
I have been told by many people that they feel claustrophobic in the forest. Many times each day if I stuck my arm forward I could not see my hand.
I guess I have shot around 20 duikers, mainly Blues, Bay and Peter's. They were used to feed the camp.

 

[Green Chile]

 

[Osama Mahdi]

As I have said many times, I am more at home in the forest than anywhere in Africa. I have been blessed and spent a total of 61 days in the forest with more than half just me and the pygmies.
I have been told by many people that they feel claustrophobic in the forest. Many times each day if I stuck my arm forward I could not see my hand.
I guess I have shot around 20 duikers, mainly Blues, Bay and Peter's. They were used to feed the camp.

Do you know any way to get any of these duiker’s hides?

 

[Green Chile]

Do you know any way to get any of these duiker’s hides?

In Liberia, the hides can be brought back in luggage at least to Copenhagen. I don’t know about US entry.

 

[MLindsay]

All duikers, as far as I know, are importable to the U.S. from Cameroon