I speak from experiance and I can tell you if you think cattle or crop farming is expensive and hard, game farming is double so. It all depends on the location,area and infrastructure that is in place. This will again determine what size property you will need to make it work. 2000HA in one area is the same as 6000HA in another as far as carrying capacity goes. No matter what anyone tells you, you will need a specialist to deteemine the optimal amount and split between browsers and grasers. Up keep on fences vechiles and other equipment can cost a pretty penny monthly, so does fuel to run hunting rigs and work rigs. Labour in Africa is cheap, but you get what you pay for and dont expect a lot of common sense or loyalty, we had several staff locked up for theft and poaching. If you are buying a running operation with a good reputation and a list of clients then you kind of have a good start, but nothing stops the seller from poaching back his clients. There are many investors who have found out the hard way that a game farm can swallow money hand over fist, unfortunately most of them did run the operation themselves and that hurt them badly. There are others who made it good, but in general it takes years and years to turn a profit. You will find many hunting operators run a second business to make a living. I eventualy realised its way,way cheaper to hunt on someone elses property,pay and start planning another hunt without much worry
but the only thing to do not to go loopy when i see the prices of sable at auctions in sa is to 
