Inquiry on South African Outfitters at U.S. hunting shows

Luxurious to me is sleeping in a bed. I'm done with dirt, leaves, pine needles, diamond plate, table tops and picnic benches, some with rags and some without.
Got there at 1:00 Saturday and stayed through closing, at 7PM. Was there the whole time on Sunday from opening at 10AM to 5PM. HUGE like nothing I've ever seen. One building was guns, another filled with archery and camping stuff, the next all fishing with boats next door, and finally the last building filled with outfitters.

I had gone through the list of outfitters over the last couple weeks, checking out their websites and marking those I was most interested in seeing. Wound up speaking with about ten of them, spending more in depth with several. Learned some are very small outfits, which only accept single parties, which means it would have been my wife and I, and that's it. While they were probably very good, I didn't want that setting. Prefer there to be a few others to socialize with. Found several.

I have all this written down in my notes, but off the top of my head I recall Somerby Safaris was the first I met with. Also met with Licrombe, Warthog, and Kirabo. In addition, I got information from Molopo, Kemp, Bergzicht, and Friikie Du Toit, But while I think you probably couldn't go wrong with any of them, there is one which stood out in particular in terms of the facilities. This was Ultimate Safaris. This one is in the Kwazulu-Natal province, and located just south of Kruger National Park. What stood out about it most though, besides being right next door to a place we want to see is the camp. Talk about LUXURIOUS. Wow! They're a newer outfitter, being around since 2007, and recently finished an extension to the camp. Incredible facilities and view.

I have a lot of materials to do through, and still have a time to decide, as we're looking three to four years down the road for this trip but my short list is around five outfitters who appear to meet all the points on my checklist. We are looking at this being both a hunt AND tourism vacation. Being there is so much to see, we'll have to make some decisions regarding which we'll do on the first trip. I say that because it's clear to me this is going to be followed up with at least one more thereafter. Want to see Kruger, Victoria Falls and the Cape. That and a hunt is too much for the two week vacation we can do at this time. Found really lovely places in the East Cape, so I'm thinking perhaps a hunt with a Limpopo outfitter or the one in Kwazulu-Natal, several days photo safari in Kruger and a trip to Victoria Falls for the first trip. And perhaps another in the East Cape, with travel around that province and the cape.

I am really excited about the prospect of doing this. Sharing info with a friend and hunting partner who hadn't really thought of this before, but is becoming intrigued. I think it would be ever better if he and his wife decided to do this as well. It would make for an awesome trip.

If you're set on two trips, an option is to do one trip tourism/sightseeing with the wives and one trip hunting with your buddy.
 
LOL! Yeah, that will go over like a LEAD BALLOON.
 
If you think you are only going once, you are lying to yourself.

That's what I've been told and after loads of research online and now meeting with a few of the outfitters/PHs I wanted to in Harrisburg, I'm all the more convinced of it. There's no way to have the time or money to take all the animals I'm interested in on one trip. Wouldn't even want to. Would also like to try different areas.

My biggest road block right now is the wife who suddenly out of the clear blue sky has gotten this bug up her... that I'm NOT going to be doing any hunting. She's never objected in the past. Now suddenly she's getting all PETA on me.

She understands the need for hunting, but has been convinced by some recent Italian TV program on animal abuse in Africa that I can't do this.

As I told her, even if I had the money I have no interest in going after the cats (she's a cat lover, and despite their size seems them as the same thing), Rhinos or elephants. They're under horrible pressure from poachers, which is something I think has gotten so bad that an international effort to help out the wild life managers/rangers is in Africa is needed. These insurgent groups taking such animals to finance their operations have gotten really deadly now. Saw a couple years ago an entire team of wildlife rangers were killed in an ambush. We also need to really crack down on the black market for ivory, etc. But when it comes to plains game, I understand all is well. I think the same goes for cape buffalo. In that case, I don't see the point of her sudden revulsion to hunting.

Dang liberals are indoctrinating people into believing it's okay if a wolf or lion kills a gazelle, but people shouldn't.

And on top of it all, she's not a vegan/vegetarian.
 

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Do you have any cull hunts available? 7 days, daily rate plus per animal price?
 
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