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Looking at your list the best advise i can offer is give yourself a bit more time to gain some experience.I’m sure there are lists other places, but I thought I’d share mine. Please help me fill out anything I missed.
Big 5
Leopard.
Lion.
Elephant.
White Rhino
Black Rhino
Buffalo
Dangerous 7
Hippopotamus
Nile Crocodile
Spiral slam
Kudu
Eland
Bushbuck
Nyala
Springbok slam
Common
White
Black
Copper
Blesbok slam
Common blesbuck
Copper blesbuck
Yellow blesbuck
White blesbuck
Tiny 10
Common/Grey Duiker
Red Duiker
Blue Duiker
Cape Grysbok
Sharpe’s Grysbok
Steenbok
Dik-Dik
Klipspringer
Oribi
Suni
Vaal Rhebuck
Impala
Black Impala
Gemsbok
Zebra
Mountain Zebra
Sable
Roan
Sitatunga
Black Lechwe
Kafue Lechwe
Red lechwe
Giant Forest Hog
Bongo
Lord Derby Eland
Bontebok
Baboon
Baboon – Chacma
Black wildebeest
Blue wildebeest
King wildebeest
Bushbuck
Bushpig
Caracal
Hyena – spotted
Jackal
Giraffe
Mountain reedbuck
Red hartebeest
Reedbuck – common
Tsessebe
Warthog
Waterbuck
Especially before you spend a lot of money shooting all those color variants. Not to mention the taxidermy. Not saying you shouldn't do what you want! Just saying give it more thought.... They really are not different species and they are likely to all be on high fenced property. Again if that is your thing, go for it. Just realize what else is available, especially when you look beyond RSA. And especially if you really have a goal of getting everything Africa has to offer.
I've seen mountain reedbuck added to the tiny ten, doesn't mean it's supposed to be on there. Some guys want to get everything in South Africa so they make stuff up. I've heard claims that hippo is now part of the Big Five, BS.
Your spiral slam is drastically short... you may have a South Africa version but that doesn't even come close. Missing bongo, sitatunga, lesser kudu, mountain Nyala, Lord Derby Eland, Livingston Eland, several bushbucks, etc. A complete Spiral Slam is very expensive.
You are missing some hartebeest, wildebeest, all the gazelles, the Silent Seven Genets, Serval, African Wild Cat, Serval, Civit, mongoose, you have Jackal but there are multiple at least side striped and black backed should be on
the list. What about Brown Hyena and Cheetah or are you limiting to importable to the USA?
Savanna Buffalo, Dwarf Forest Buffalo, Nile Buffalo.
These lists can go on and on
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