with your specified request you are in the safest hands here in AH..
If your definition of South Africa is from airport to hunting area and back like most people , Tanzania will be even more isolated experience and she won’t like it as well.
Dm sent, we can assit internally with the filming
That could be a very long and heavily debated answer. It’s a very different level of management between buffalo in South Africa and elsewhere. There are properties managed as wild self sustaining buffalo but many are not. If you don’t want questions in your head if the buffalo was stocked you need to go to a free range area. Many properties are regularly supplemented with bulls from breeding facilities, some bulls are stocked young and grow on property and some are stocked as post-breeding trophies. Unfortunately, the definition of self sustaining is very flexible in South Africa particularly with buffalo and it’s difficult to identify the truth in some cases if hunting a certain way is important to you, so my money would go where I don’t have any post hunt suspicions. I also think there is an aspect missing if you are hunting buffalo that have never been hunted by lions which is case on most farms. I’d hunt PG in South Africa but I generally wouldn’t hunt buffalo there.
This will be our second Stag hunt in Scotland the first was with Dunmhor Sporting Ltd. They are a great group.
Also after all this great advise on the Buff subject I think you hit the nail on the head with people wanting a traditional stalk with a wild free range Dugga Boy mean as hell with a lot of built-up aggression, not a Buff that’s had an easy life grazing. lol
I went to Zimbabwe for my first hunt as I couldn’t find a way around trusting outfits in SA. There are good operators there but many, if not most need to supplement animals from breeding operations. Just think of it this way, if a property has 30k continuous acres, but have 40 hunters a year going after kudu, there is no way that property can support that harvest without buying more animals. It is the same with buffalo. The outfit I hunted with in Zim could only take 20 buffalo a year on 2 million acres.
My own experience has been it is less the size of the property and more the quality of the hunt. A case in point I hunted Buff with @TSALA HUNTING SAFARIS and it was an outstanding hunt and experience in SA. I hunted with D&Y in Zim and it to was an outstanding hunt. One was on 100,000 acres in SA and one was on 2 million acres again both equally enjoyable to me!!!
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I will add I have seen and no I will not name the outfitter a very small space where the animals had holes for the tags in their ears that I refused to take an animal there. My lesson learned is it is not just about fenced versus non fenced. @TSALA HUNTING SAFARIS even though yes they had fences in SA I did not notice them on my awesome hunt as I did not notice since there were not any fences with D&Y. Do your homework and it will pay off!!!!
It’s not a matter of challenge, but more of what you are looking for. Do you want to hunt hard for 10 days and possibly not get a buffalo, because hunting is hunting ? Or do you want the guarantee you will get a shot opportunity?
