Watch some videos, they can provide some great insight into Buffalo behaviour and the style of hunting that will be used.
Ascertaining whether animal reactions are due to hunting pressure or general nature of bovines is a little tricky, but do some study and enjoy the education.
Skip forward to the shooting scene.
A Buffalo is shot and the herd stands around and the PH is bringing a second hunter forward onto the same sticks to take the next buffalo from the herd. The edited version is over two minutes long.
Have a look at the trail used by the argo to get into the feeding area in the Delta. Looks rather well used to me. There is a pattern the Buffalo will follow and obviously feeding in the same area.
Drive you out to a feeding area, walk up the edge of the vlei and snipe a Buffalo.
Not exactly a close encounter. Is this a bad thing? No. Can you knock it, sure.
How many times will you hear: "We went to the water hole to find tracks"
Artificial water points are installed in many "wild" areas. It draws wildlife and has multiple benefits. It certainly aggregates the game in dry periods! Is this baiting?
I've watched a Leopard hunt that used a five gallon bucket of water for bait. A hole was dug at the base of the impala bait tree, bucket placed, filled with water. Poof!
Leopards need to drink after eating all that meat; Interesting lesson hunting learned.
Burning; same idea. Allow specific areas to green up first and poof, bait station.
Salt Licks, "Salines": Bongo, LDE, all drawn to bait. Can you see the salt?
There are plenty of creative ways to bait without ever dropping a bale of lucerne in a trough. I'd suggest that you skip the generalizations, negative or positive.
Good luck in your search for a hunt.
