Recent content by mark-hunter

How it started recently in Australia, it will be difficult to keep guns either! But trophy is not impossible. Make replica tusks, and bring them home. Do the research on the forum, there are few pictures, and they look identical. Moreover, I saw them in person, except for light weight once you...

Emotions, motivations. I hunted ele, so please dont think I wouldnt do it. But: I feel like that for hunting giraffe, and rhino. Simply put, I cannot shoot giraffe and rhino. They are animals so special to me, like coming from another world, or another time so "un-earhtly" and exotic, that I...

Mars landing? I dont know anybody in my wider circle even having an idea to hunt elephant. Average hunter in my small country, does not even think about it. Elephant? Same like hunting on Mars. So do not get influenced by those uninterested. Just book the hunt, and go. Tuskless bull you will...

Farm hunting, fenced. Farm hunting, unfenced. Hunting in safari areas, wilderness.

Absolutely! :A Banana: We just need sponsor!;) (add to this, testing fine guns, to expand the service offers!)

You can get: exportable or non exportable elephant. Once you get non-exportable, you can make replica tusks in plastic, and ship them home. But non exportable ele drops the price. Then it is exportability per country. As per Cites convention, to Europe you can export only from Zimbabwe...

There is internal waters (harbors, bays, estuaries, channels, etc. There is territorial waters 12 miles from base line. Economic zone 200 miles. Those are within some coastal state jurisdiction. The rest is open waters, no jurisdiction. No policeman to charge the fine, No fleet to run patrols...

Very hard to accomplish. If the fishing fleet is fishing in international waters, which countries jurisdiction it is? Hint: no jurisdiction. It is very similar problem with piracy in international waters. EU managed to do something with tuna fishing quotas, but just because all member states...

My take: 1. On the end of the day hunters pay all convention expenses. This does not make offers cheaper. The money that outfitters spend o convention (Flights, boot rent, hotel, taxi), came from their business financed by hunters. This increases cost per hunter, per hunt in regular offers...

@Russ16 Leopard is a hunt not guaranteed, and it will be on DG day rate. Your brother shooting bait is good idea, but keep in mind leopard does not need to come at bait, or at least not a shootable male. (dont ask me how I know) This was discussed on another thread i started on leopards...

Great! If my work schedule allows, I will come, and we will have a chance to chat! (y)

Are you attending Salzburg fair in Austria, February 2026?

South Africa is mostly fenced hunting areas. In Namibia, there is combination of unfenced and fenced areas. If fencing matters to you. Oryx will have cheaper trophy fees in Namibia. Nyala is introduced species in Namibia, and available only in fence. Even in fence, it does not flourish...

Once the trophy is on the wall, I am always afraid to make the final calculation of true cost.

An excellent point! (y)