Safari Season 2024 Has Started - Where We Going?

[Mtn_Infantry]

My update
Working to finalize plans for a Rhino Dart summer 2024
I drew a Once in a Lifetime On-Range Oryx tag in New Mexico for WSMR this fall
Waiting for the rest of the North American Draws to come out
July 2025 Zambia

Tentative plans/goals for the next few years Leopard in Zimbabwe, MuskOx & Caribou in Greenland, plus whatever tags I manage to draw here in North America.

 

[SETH RINGER]

MY SON IS TAKING HIS WIFE AND 2 TEENAGE DAUGHTERS ON A 21 DAY TRIP. FIRST TO CAPE TOWN, THEN DURBAN, FOLLOWED BY AN 8 DAY HUNT IN KWAZULU-NATAL, AND THEN FOLLOWED BY A FEW DAYS IN VIC FALLS BEFOR HEADED HOME. HE IS NOT MUCH OF A PHOTO TAKER BUT WILL TRY TO GET YA'LL A FEW PICTS WHEN HE GETS BACK.
I WILL GET TO MEET UP WITH HIM AND A FEW OF OUR BUDDIES FOR A HUNT AT @JES Adventures IN NOVEMBER FOR A BIT OF DEER HUNTIN, CIGAR SMOKIN, AND BOURBON & COKE (NO, @HankBuck IT WILL NOT BE "CRAP" BOURBON!) AND WILL UPDATE ON THAT TRIP.

 

[USN]

You should grab that red duiker offer!

Thanks I will ask about it

 

[HankBuck]

MY SON IS TAKING HIS WIFE AND 2 TEENAGE DAUGHTERS ON A 21 DAY TRIP. FIRST TO CAPE TOWN, THEN DURBAN, FOLLOWED BY AN 8 DAY HUNT IN KWAZULU-NATAL, AND THEN FOLLOWED BY A FEW DAYS IN VIC FALLS BEFOR HEADED HOME. HE IS NOT MUCH OF A PHOTO TAKER BUT WILL TRY TO GET YA'LL A FEW PICTS WHEN HE GETS BACK.
I WILL GET TO MEET UP WITH HIM AND A FEW OF OUR BUDDIES FOR A HUNT AT @JES Adventures IN NOVEMBER FOR A BIT OF DEER HUNTIN, CIGAR SMOKIN, AND BOURBON & COKE (NO, @HankBuck IT WILL NOT BE "CRAP" BOURBON!) AND WILL UPDATE ON THAT TRIP.

@SETH RINGER - will the Bourbon cost at least as much as the Coca Cola??

 

[ACM]

currently sitting in camp with Bayly Sipple at their north camp. Buff and an add on kudu. Rut going for kudu. Everyone have a great and safe trip.

Look forward to your report on buff. It seems they have some great offerings. Happy hunting!

 

[SETH RINGER]

@SETH RINGER - will the Bourbon cost at least as much as the Coca Cola??

I'LL GO OUT ON A LIMB AND SAY I HAVE POURED MORE COKE OVER EAGLE RARE AND LOT B THAN YOU HAVE DRANK STRAIGHT.

 

[HankBuck]

I'LL GO OUT ON A LIMB AND SAY I HAVE POURED MORE COKE OVER EAGLE RARE AND LOT B THAN YOU HAVE DRANK STRAIGHT.

@SETH RINGER - I’m NOT taking that bet, a 3-4oz pour of good Bourbon and I’m “done” for the evening….maybe the weekend !

 

[Scott CWO]

I'm excited to read the reports. What's in there for 2024?

Doubling up in 2025 and just hunted Tanzania last November so taking 2024 off to rebuild the war chest. So far, I haven’t drawn anything good in the USA but one can always hope!

 

[jpr9954]

I leave in one month for the Eastern Cape with @LJ SAFARIS . It is a package with nyala and bushbuck but I plan to add on to the list. It will be in both the Karoo and the coastal area.

I won a mixed trophy and cull hunt at SCI from @TSALA HUNTING SAFARIS that I will taking in late August. It was for 2 hunters and 2 observers but it may just be my brother-in-law and me.

 

[Mark Biggerstaff]

June will see me back with Bos en Dal. Hippo, croc and buff cow on the list.

Need to update mine to include Rhino Dart hunt now also!

 

[375Fox]

My update
Working to finalize plans for a Rhino Dart summer 2024
I drew a Once in a Lifetime On-Range Oryx tag in New Mexico for WSMR this fall
Waiting for the rest of the North American Draws to come out
July 2025 Zambia

Tentative plans/goals for the next few years Leopard in Zimbabwe, MuskOx & Caribou in Greenland, plus whatever tags I manage to draw here in North America.

What will you be after in Zambia?

 

[Andrew62]

Uganda last month for 2 Buffalo, Limpopo for rhino darting in September.

 

[Hillcountry63]

Well it’s hogs on the Ga coast in a few weeks and chasing reds and specks with a 6 weight in the marsh. I’ll be back in SA spending time in the Kalahari and Limpo in July and August. Then dove is right around the corner in September with Marsh Rails on the full moon flood tides. Deer and pigs in Oct, then my Texas season cranks up in November and I’ll finish out December with ducks and geese In Arkansas……. I need more time.

 

[Mtn_Infantry]

What will you be after in Zambia?

As of right now just PG endemic to Zambia; Sable, Puku, Chobe Bushbuck, etc being the main targets. Mulling around Lechwe and Sititunga but each time I look at the cost on Sititunga think about how that’s almost 1/2 a sheep hunt, or 1/2 a leopard, or another safari to Zim for Buf or Tuskless.

 

[375Fox]

As of right now just PG endemic to Zambia; Sable, Puku, Chobe Bushbuck, etc being the main targets. Mulling around Lechwe and Sititunga but each time I look at the cost on Sititunga think about how that’s almost 1/2 a sheep hunt, or 1/2 a leopard, or another safari to Zim for Buf or Tuskless.

I think you should take a kafue lechwe if you can. It’s only place you can hunt them and driving distance from Lusaka. I agree with you on the sitatunga (for now anyway) but thankfully there are a few countries you can hunt them in, so opportunity should last.

 

[Green Chile]

Excellent point on kafue lechwe! It's there and you're there and that's the cheapest opportunity you will ever have. Coming back is expensive when they are right there, if you can swing it. I have the same philosophy when a great animal steps out that you weren't planning on...now is the cheapest opportunity to take it. When the Bush offers up something, consider it seriously.

 

[Mtn_Infantry]

I think you should take a kafue lechwe if you can. It’s only place you can hunt them and driving distance from Lusaka. I agree with you on the sitatunga (for now anyway) but thankfully there are a few countries you can hunt them in, so opportunity should last.

It’s a very recent development within the last two weeks and it’s not primarily my trip. I was asked to join. Once more details start emerging I’ll shoot you a message.

 

[Mac13]

30 Days out from Botswana with NKWE. Kudu, Kudu, Kudu (no, this is not a misprint) of course my son will be taking one of them. Lol
Also, Eland, Gemsbok, Red Hartebeest, Blue Wildebeest, Zebra, Impala, Springbok.

 

[Green Chile]

Looking forward to the NKWE reports as always. They are on my bucket list for big kudu.

 

[Scott CWO]

As of right now just PG endemic to Zambia; Sable, Puku, Chobe Bushbuck, etc being the main targets. Mulling around Lechwe and Sititunga but each time I look at the cost on Sititunga think about how that’s almost 1/2 a sheep hunt, or 1/2 a leopard, or another safari to Zim for Buf or Tuskless.

Who are you booking with? You can easily get the Kafue lechwe in one day from Lusaka at the end of your trip and they are the biggest species of lechwe.