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16 hours ago, moog5050 said:

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What caliber do you typically recommend for a safari?  Do you supply rifles or do people bring their own?  I have no idea how difficult travel is overseas with a rifle.

It all depends on the species your after and the area your hunting , I always say bring the gun that you are most comfortable with generally any .30 calibre will be more than sufficient to kill all plains game up to eland .

However if you are looking at going to the eastern cape and your going to be taking some long shots over 300yards the 7mm or .270 calibers also works well and are more than enough gun , just use premium bullets .

My favorite caliber for all the plains game would be 30-06 or any of the .300 range .

Should you be going for buffalo elephant ect I would say .375 and you can hunt all the plainsgame with that as well .

For the import we use a company that does all the paperwork for you  beforehand and the cost runs around $150 for everything per rifle this is well worth it as they try to make it as pain less as possible and you don't have stress about anything .

Should you still not prefer to go trough all the effort to import your own rifle we have rifles to rent in various calibers cost runs you $35 per day ammo included .

Africa always sounds daunting but it really is not as scary as people make it sound once you've done it once you will be hooked for life .

 

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One of the professional hunters I hunt With knows him very well, he did his apprenticeship under him .

He is mainly based in the eastern cape but also hunted all over southern Africa .

Not sure if he himself still hunts but they run quite a big operation down here .

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Management elephant bull hunted on one of our areas for population control , he broke one of his tusks on a rock when going down thus the black band on the tusk .IMG-20180806-WA0002.thumb.jpg.1b67e4a9a76b9fe029f604c89917b45c.jpg
Just out of curiosity what does a management Bull hunt cost? I know my taxidermist charges around 20-25k to do a shoulder mount so figured might as well see what the hunt itself goes for

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15 hours ago, The Jerkman said:

Just out of curiosity what does a management Bull hunt cost? I know my taxidermist charges around 20-25k to do a shoulder mount so figured might as well see what the hunt itself goes for

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Hi they go for around $15000- 25000 depending on availability and area 

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2 hours ago, The Jerkman said:

Looks like I have some serious saving to do then, either that or hit the lottery

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And most likely you have to be single as well.

"No, hon, I am not driving a mini-van and we are not getting a second car.  Oh, by the way, I'll be in Africa next month."

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And most likely you have to be single as well.
"No, hon, I am not driving a mini-van and we are not getting a second car.  Oh, by the way, I'll be in Africa next month."
Well the girlfriend and future doesn't really want me to shoot an elephant so even if I had the money may be a hard sell to get it in the house after the fact let alone if she'd ever talk to me again lol

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7 minutes ago, The Jerkman said:

Well the girlfriend and future doesn't really want me to shoot an elephant so even if I had the money may be a hard sell to get it in the house after the fact let alone if she'd ever talk to me again lol

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You should be able to hide a fully body mount somewhere without her noticing.

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Well the girlfriend and future doesn't really want me to shoot an elephant so even if I had the money may be a hard sell to get it in the house after the fact let alone if she'd ever talk to me again lol

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Blasphemy! And I'm sure she would, but would likely be a bit upset both that I had just dropped over 100k on a hunt assuming full body or over 50-70k for a shoulder mount. And that it was an elephant

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Unless one is very wealthy, I don't think there are too many women who'd be happy with the husband spending up to $25K of the family finances to shoot an elephant.  I honestly don't know if I could blame them either.  I'd surely be pissed if she wanted to spend that much on jewelry or some other girlie nonsense.

 

 

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Unless one is very wealthy, I don't think there are too many women who'd be happy with the husband spending up to $25K of the family finances to shoot an elephant.  I honestly don't know if I could blame them either.  I'd surely be pissed if she wanted to spend that much on jewelry or some other girlie nonsense.
 
 
At this point its either a ring or an elephant and loneliness. Looks like an elephant will have to wait

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3 hours ago, The Jerkman said:

At this point its either a ring or an elephant and loneliness. Looks like an elephant will have to wait

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You could be mugged flashing jewelry around.  Not too many cat burglars are going to haul out a full body elephant mount.

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You could be mugged flashing jewelry around.  Not too many cat burglars are going to haul out a full body elephant mount.
This is true. But a full body is close to 100k. Damn we need more pictures Rhyno. Deer Season can't come soon enough!

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