Rare/expensive plains game species

[LimbNoMo]

What are some of the rarer or more expensive plains game trophies for someone to hunt?

The list seems to start with Lord Derby Eland, Bongo, and Sitatunga but beyond expensive I was also thinking species that are rare due to opportunity, location, or regulation.

Thank you all.

 

[dchum]

What are some of the rarer or more expensive plains game trophies for someone to hunt?

The list seems to start with Lord Derby Eland, Bongo, and Sitatunga but beyond expensive I was also thinking species that are rare due to opportunity, location, or regulation.

Thank you all.

Mountain Nyala actually beats all of them in terms of opportunity and cost I believe.

Can only be done in Ethiopia -
I am just speaking from second hand knowledge.

Some members here have been there done that on all of them and might chime in.

 

[mark-hunter]

Mountain nyala.
Some duikers, like zebra duiker, comes to mind.

 

[DieJager]

Gerenuk

 

[dchum]

Gerenuk

I’m gonna make a Maasai land hunt happen for me one day. What a creature Gerenuk are.

 

[migrabill]

Sable.

 

[mrpoindexter]

Sable.

Sorry, sable are not rare and not that expensive any longer. I got my 42" sable 5 years ago for $2950 including daily rates. A roan is rarer and more expensive but for the most part, anything in South Africa on plains game isn't really hard to get to and thus not really rare in regards to PG.

Ethiopia is more of the North American model for their conservation. You don't have private ownership and you pay for the tag and then go out and hunt your animal, as opposed to much of the rest of Africa where you pay for the tag if you harvest your animal. For this reason, animals like a Menelik bushbuck would be quite rare. Also getting a specific forest duiker would likely be hard, as opposed to just any forest duiker that came along.

Not plains game per se, but a striped hyena would be rare. Your waterbuck that are not common ones, like the Sing-sin or any of the defassa ones, North African animals like a Sahara or an Egyptian Dorcas gazelle, Barbary sheep in native habitat, etc would also be quite rare animals to get.

 

[Rem280]

Giant Forest Hog

 

[uplander01]

ROAN------>Free Range----->Expensive

 

[LucasK]

I Have only seen one Beria or Dibatag taken recently. Both are available in Somaliland but i don'tknow anythingabout logistics there. No one has taken a Hirola since the early 80's and I doubt it will ever be on license again. A couple of western mountain Reedbuck were on license in the 90's in Cameron but not since. And last, pygmy hippo, probably less than a dozen taken by modern sport hunters. Liberia always sounds like such a gamble anyway...