Safari Season 2024 Has Started - Where We Going?

[Cleathorn]

The 2024 hunting/safari season has started. I am currently sitting in a hotel in Nairobi, Kenya on a stopover to the Karamoja region of Uganda (I know, I should be at the Stanley Hotel for pure nostalgia reasons, but the flight landed late and it’s not close to airport).

I left the house on Dec. 31st, flew to Kenya and it’s on to Uganda tomorrow. I start hunting on January 3rd. Very excited to be hunting the same ground as the famed “Karamoja Bell” - though I will not be hunting elephant (or Buffalo) on this trip. This is a scouting trip for 5 or 6 of the East African specific plains game.

It’s always exciting to hunt new areas and new species, with new people. I’m hunting with Abe Langley’s KOS Safari to see what he has going in Uganda. Bought this trip at DSC last year while Abe was laid up in England with a bout of malaria (started my prophylactics this morning).

I have a trip booked to Cameroon in March with Mayo Oldiri on a special license for some savanna species, and Namibia in June in an effort to take a Danamarra dik-dik, a Kalahari springbuck (I’ve taken all the others) and whatever else we can scrape up.

If I can get it worked out, might be able to do a Carpathian chamois in Romania in the fall - but still working on that one.

This year will be all new areas and new outfitters for me. Scouting trips really (except Romania - that’s to complete the chamois world slam). I love trip planning, and finding new areas and adventures. As much as I love Africa, and I do love Africa, i’m getting really interested in the hunting in eastern Europe as well. If you haven’t tried it, I would really recommend the Balkan countries for roe deer, red deer, fallow deer, chamois, mouflon, wolf and boar. Awesome hunting traditions in the hunting clubs and regions of eastern Europe.

Anyway, that’s what i have going on in 2024. Would love to hear about what everyone else is planning, be it a new area, first time trip to Africa, father/daughter whitetail in Ohio, whatever you got. If you are hunting in southern Africa you have a few months of planning/anticipation anyway, so let’s talk about it.

And Happy New Year!

 

[DLSJR]

I leave in 5 weeks for Cameroon. Hunting Lord Derby Eland & Roan with Alan Vincent on Mayo Nduel area.

 

[Altitude sickness]

Very exciting Gentlemen,

I have a Tuskless, my wife a Leopard and Buffalo hunt In May northern Zimbabwe with Dalton and York.

 

[Kevin Peacocke]

It sounds like a big year @Cleathorn , I am envious of your Karamojo hunt.
This year our group plans to do a number of PG hunts here in Zimbabwe, for kudu and nyala or bushbuck most likely. Then around September the big hunt will be for an old dagga boy in the Zambezi valley or Save. Then we will enter four teams into the annual tiger fish tournament at Kariba. A pretty full year.

 

[Wade J VanGinkel]

Everything I do is far lower budget or I would only be able to go every few years. Can't handle that. Lol
That said I'm leaving for England next week for a muntjac and CWD hunt. 4 days hunting about an hour west of London.
Should draw a Michigan bear tag in the UP after 10 years of applying as a non resident.
Might take my grandson fishing in Alaska in June. I have enough air miles with Alaska airlines for free tickets.

 

[Cleathorn]

It sounds like a big year @Cleathorn , I am envious of your Karamojo hunt.
This year our group plans to do a number of PG hunts here in Zimbabwe, for kudu and nyala or bushbuck most likely. Then around September the big hunt will be for an old dagga boy in the Zambezi valley or Save. Then we will enter four teams into the annual tiger fish tournament at Kariba. A pretty full year.

Love the Zambezi Valley. Hunted the middle Zambezi Valley and the Makuti Concession at the east end of the lake with Lin Stanton a few times in recent years. Great areas, and some good old bulls on the east end.

I would love to come over and fish the tournament on Kariba. Lin has told me some stories (most not fit to print) about it. But as a middle aged American, not sure I can hang with you Zim guys out there. You’ll have fun.

 

[375Fox]

I’ve got two big hunts planned. I’ll be going to Namibia in early March to hunt plains game in Kaokoland in NW Namibia and do some ranch hunting as well. Then I’ll be going to Dande in Zambezi Valley in Zimbabwe for bull elephant in July. I’ll possibly add a shorter notice European hunt in the fall as well. I’m very excited for the elephant hunt. It will be a new experience for me.

 

[Kevin Peacocke]

Love the Zambezi Valley. Hunted the middle Zambezi Valley and the Makuti Concession at the east end of the lake with Lin Stanton a few times in recent years. Great areas, and some good old bulls on the east end.

I would love to come over and fish the tournament on Kariba. Lin has told me some stories (most not fit to print) about it. But as a middle aged American, not sure I can hang with you Zim guys out there. You’ll have fun.

Kitft has calmed down a lot, plenty of families come, quite professional really. All catch and release. You should come.

 

[Fatback]

I’ll be after a Buffalo and spotted hyena in Matesi 2 in Zimbabwe the first week of September.

 

[Nevada Wapati]

Texas aoudad in February, roe deer in Romania in May and plains game in Mozambique in August with Mokore.

 

[Rare Breed]

The 2024 hunting/safari season has started. I am currently sitting in a hotel in Nairobi, Kenya on a stopover to the Karamoja region of Uganda (I know, I should be at the Stanley Hotel for pure nostalgia reasons, but the flight landed late and it’s not close to airport).

I left the house on Dec. 31st, flew to Kenya and it’s on to Uganda tomorrow. I start hunting on January 3rd. Very excited to be hunting the same ground as the famed “Karamoja Bell” - though I will not be hunting elephant (or Buffalo) on this trip. This is a scouting trip for 5 or 6 of the East African specific plains game.

It’s always exciting to hunt new areas and new species, with new people. I’m hunting with Abe Langley’s KOS Safari to see what he has going in Uganda. Bought this trip at DSC last year while Abe was laid up in England with a bout of malaria (started my prophylactics this morning).

I have a trip booked to Cameroon in March with Mayo Oldiri on a special license for some savanna species, and Namibia in June in an effort to take a Danamarra dik-dik, a Kalahari springbuck (I’ve taken all the others) and whatever else we can scrape up.

If I can get it worked out, might be able to do a Carpathian chamois in Romania in the fall - but still working on that one.

This year will be all new areas and new outfitters for me. Scouting trips really (except Romania - that’s to complete the chamois world slam). I love trip planning, and finding new areas and adventures. As much as I love Africa, and I do love Africa, i’m getting really interested in the hunting in eastern Europe as well. If you haven’t tried it, I would really recommend the Balkan countries for roe deer, red deer, fallow deer, chamois, mouflon, wolf and boar. Awesome hunting traditions in the hunting clubs and regions of eastern Europe.

Anyway, that’s what i have going on in 2024. Would love to hear about what everyone else is planning, be it a new area, first time trip to Africa, father/daughter whitetail in Ohio, whatever you got. If you are hunting in southern Africa you have a few months of planning/anticipation anyway, so let’s talk about it.

And Happy New Year!

I hunt my Rhino and a Cape Buffalo cow in April for a week in SA then on to Zim with Tokoloshe for a Trophy elephant hunt

 

[mdwest]

I’m back at @Bos en Dal SAFARIS in July… no clue what we are hunting yet… we’ll figure that out a little better over the next few months (I hope )…

We’ve got a big Idaho trip planned for October as well… both the wife and I drew elk and mule deer tags.. planning for 7-9 days plodding through the mountains there..

 

[dchum]

I’ll be after a Buffalo and spotted hyena in Matesi 2 in Zimbabwe the first week of September.

I hope to see a report! Sounds fun.

 

[Philip Glass]

I am taking my youngest son and 3 others back to the Zambezi Valley this year. We will hunt buffalo and others in July With D&Y.
A good friend and I will venture back to Alaska in September for a full bag Alaskan hunt.
December will find me in Spain chasing Ibex.

 

[wesheltonj]

Early fall Europe

 

[Cleathorn]

I am taking my youngest son and 3 others back to the Zambezi Valley this year. We will hunt buffalo and others in July With D&Y.
A good friend and I will venture back to Alaska in September for a full bag Alaskan hunt.
December will find me in Spain chasing Ibex.

I hunted the Spanish Ibex slam and both chamois in 2021 and 2022. I love the hunting culture in Spain. Would like to get there in 2025 to hunt an Iberian mouflon up in the Pyrenees.

 

[migrabill]

Limpopo region of SA in June for my first trip to Africa ever. 7 animals on the list. Blue Wildebeest, Impala, Blesbok, Zebra, Kudu, Gemsbok, and Honey Badger.

 

[booker]

Nothing planned yet for 2024 just bird hunts. Will see what we are doing after Dallas SCI.

 

[Mark Biggerstaff]

June will see me back with Bos en Dal. Hippo, croc and buff cow on the list.

 

[Lee M]

Namibia in late July. Eland, Kudu, and a few others. Mostly with the bow but will look for a 40” oryx spot and stalk with gun also. Maybe a giraffe with the bow - working in some 800-900 grain arrows.