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You'll have a wonderful time bow hunting provided you use very heavy arrows. Light arrows at high speed work on whitetails, but they don't work at all on the plains game of Africa. If you want to see how that goes, check out the very good videos from Dries Vissers Safaris featuring Americans bowhunting. Lots of failure to penetrate with "normal" arrows.
 
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Niki.NE said:
Hello, my husband and I just booked our first trip to South Africa and are super excited (the waiting 11 more months will be excruciating). We both plan to use our compound bows and firearms for the range of animals we have on our "wish lists." Any guidance or recommendations on poundage, arrows, broad heads, etc. is greatly appreciated!
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When and where (what country, state/province) will you be hunting?
 
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Welcome to AH. A big congrats on your trip! I am sure you will have a fantastic time!
 
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Greetings Niki.NE,

Khomas Highland Hunting Safaris of Namibia, welcomes you to the greatest forum on earth.

Yours truly is no archer by anyone’s imagination.
But both my sons are.
My oldest occasionally writes in here, the best forum of all, under the screen name of, DoubleLunger.
If you run a search for his posts, in one of his early ones (2016 or ‘17), he discusses equipment with some of the more “Africa experienced” archers here.
I’ve attached bellow a couple photos of him.

At that time, he was using almost exclusively, compound bows and related gadgets.
However fast forward to now, he is using almost exclusively, wooden long bows and home made arrows.

As for rifles, unless hunting eland or giraffe, anything in the .30-06, 8x57 Mauser, .300 Magnum category, with 180 grain or heavier bullet works well for Africa’s antelope, swine and striped donkey.
That said, my favorite hunting cartridge is the .375 H&H, as one never knows when a 2,000 pound eland bull will suddenly appear before your very eyes.
And even though the .30-06 and similar cartridges have taken thousands of eland no doubt, I just prefer a bit extra bullet weight for such a large animal.

With that, I will say Cheerio.
Best Regards.
Velo Dog.

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