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I meant this to be the non "glamour" game. No Big Five, Mount Nyala, bongo, LD Eland, Menilik's Bush buck and that sort of thing. I'm thinking more of game that you can take without a $50k safari.
My list has Chobe and Limpopo bushbuck on it. Mountain Zebra and Vaal Rhebok.
How about you?
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Mountain Zebra, White Tailed Gnu, Tommie, and always, always more warties and impalas..
A good principle to guide me through life: “This is all I have come to expect, standard lackluster performance. Trust nothing, believe no one and realize it will only get worse…”
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Tiger fishing. Been needing to do this again and get some time set aside and dedicated for it .
I've actually sorting out some details on this now, or just recently. Seems like a Houseboat rental on the Kariba is the ticket. But I still have yet to find a house boat to live on with a skiff to fish from. It's coming........ I know lots of people in Africa!
Ha Ha..... never saw this coming huh!
www.huntingadventures.netAre you living your life, or just paying bills until you die? When you hit the pearly gates I want to be there just to see the massive pile of dead 5hit at your feet. ( John Peyton)
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I'd like to get a nice gemsbuck and a kudu...everything else would be a bonus.
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Well Mr. RGK, you need to PM me then and I will get you both of those with all the bonuses you can handle!
www.huntingadventures.netAre you living your life, or just paying bills until you die? When you hit the pearly gates I want to be there just to see the massive pile of dead 5hit at your feet. ( John Peyton)
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I think it would be great fun to go to the Karoo region of SA, with my .257 Weatherby, and take a grand slam of Springbok!
I'd rather be a free man in my grave, than living as a puppet or a slave....
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The Karoo is just THE place for your .257 Weatherby. Long shots and some days lost of wind. No cover to stalk effectively so the game can see you from a long way off, ...and they know why you are there!
"The Democrat Party looks like Titanic survivors. Partying and celebrating one moment, and huddled in lifeboats freezing the next". Hatari 2017
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Tiger fishing. Been needing to do this again and get some time set aside and dedicated for it .
I've actually sorting out some details on this now, or just recently. Seems like a Houseboat rental on the Kariba is the ticket. ! My Zambian buddy Johnny Du Plooy has taken me down to Kariba on a houseboat just for an afternoon of Tiger Fishing. They hit bait like a hand grenade. Big fun that I'd love to be able to do again and for more than one day.
"The Democrat Party looks like Titanic survivors. Partying and celebrating one moment, and huddled in lifeboats freezing the next". Hatari 2017
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I've tried 5 times for a Common Reedbuck and have never seen one that I felt that I wanted.
And I'm with jorge1, more Warthogs.
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Kudu, bushbuck. Bushbuck, kudu...
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Lets go in April/ May I'm planning this now for my wife and I, lets do it
www.huntingadventures.netAre you living your life, or just paying bills until you die? When you hit the pearly gates I want to be there just to see the massive pile of dead 5hit at your feet. ( John Peyton)
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Bucket List!
One Cape Buffalo
One more Kudu
One Water Buck
One Black Wildebeast
One Red Hartebeast
One Wart Hog
One Eland
That should do it.
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Chobe bushbuck, Kafue lechwe, Sable, and Puku. It would seem I need to go to Zambia. 
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Lets go in April/ May I'm planning this now for my wife and I, lets do it Baseball season is the limiting factor for those months, unless I don't get a team next year...  
"The Democrat Party looks like Titanic survivors. Partying and celebrating one moment, and huddled in lifeboats freezing the next". Hatari 2017
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Yeah, roan and sable are magnificent.
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Sable or whatever is around the next bend.
I am continually astounded at how quickly people make up their minds on little evidence or none at all.
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Chobe bushbuck, Kafue lechwe, Sable, and Puku. It would seem I need to go to Zambia. You can meet Jim and I at Lake Kariba. I got the beer.
"The Democrat Party looks like Titanic survivors. Partying and celebrating one moment, and huddled in lifeboats freezing the next". Hatari 2017
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Big kudu, eland, and more big kudu, another mountain zebra, more big kudu...... I'm hopelessly addicted.......
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My main focus will remain more leopard and bigger buff, so in those pursuits I can pick up the other game I want to hunt.
Kudu, although I have no kudu luck!
Sable
Chobe bushbuck
Roan
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My next trip is for Kudu and Eland, After that some bow hunting for whatever!
And these zombies line up and eat from the media’s trough
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Ingwe,
So "E.T." is at the top of your list now, huh?
I don't really have any more African big game I really have a super-desire to hunt, but until had done relatively little bird hunting--probably the most on our Namibian trip together. Got the chance to go on an all-bird safari in RSA in 2013 and pretty much got sated. It was even better than my two trips to Argentina, because of a wider variety of upland birds.
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Roan is not a super desire...but it IS the stuff of fantasy.... I spent all my money getting the 'super-desire' stuff  Truth be known, I wouldn't mind an all varmint safari.......
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Black-faced Impala (pure strain) - Namibia
This is one of the animals I covet the most. It is only found in Namibia and cannot be imported into the U.S. To me, the last point doesn't matter, I would still hunt a trophy ram at the word "GO".
(To be clear, they are on license in Namibia and perfectly legal to hunt but USF&WS will not allow the trophy to be imported.)
I'm becoming more tolerant of intolerant people.
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I've got a lot of roan available
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1. Eland
2. Blue Wilderbeest
3. another bushbuck
4. hyena
5. Hartebeest
6. impala.... been twice, haven't hunted one yet.
7. Warthog... same as above.
but, my list of "animals of opportunity" is pretty long.
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My wife wants a weird list if she goes again.
She's already got a caracal, impala, zebra, and blesbuck.
She wants:
1. ostrich... so she can make leather out of it for purse and boots.\
2. warthog... just because.
3. Genet- cause she loves cats.
4. honey badger... because of that crazy youtube video
5. porcupine... because they're cool.
6. a 2nd impala
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In Cameroon, the local staff loved to eat porcupine. If we'd see one, they'd jump out of the vehicle and whomp it with a stick and bring it back to camp.
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hyena
dik dik
warthog
I really enjoy hunting gemsbok and eland and would not pass up another kudu. I would love to have a free range lioness and another tuskless.
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Yeah, roan and sable are magnificent. I thought about them too, but they are far from being called "common game" by today's standards.
A good principle to guide me through life: “This is all I have come to expect, standard lackluster performance. Trust nothing, believe no one and realize it will only get worse…”
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more kudu and warthogs. Kudu because they affect me more than any other plains game, warthogs because they are so much fun.
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Springbok - 2
Red Lechewe
Warthog - again
Cape Buffalo - I know, I know, no exotic hunt but I've been on 2 plains game hunts and it's time to try for a one of these bad boys
Tiger fishing would be icing on the cake.
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Can't think of anything I would want to hunt in Africa today that I didn't take before the cost of hunting down there went out of sight.
I really miss the days when landowner friends in South Africa would toss me the keys to a baakie and ask me to go out and shoot the meat for a braai.
All that changed when what I like to call the South African Outfitters' Protection Act was passed, making it illegal for foreigners to hunt without a PH and a contract with an outfitter.
While I was fortunate to have killed many of the major antelope species of southern Africa on my own, without having to hire a PH, the other species were taken at a time when $1,000 would cover the government trophy fees for a buffalo, kudu AND a sable!
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When/if I make it back to Africa, I would like to shoot another kudu and warthog. A giraffe is also on the list. Anything else would just be a bonus.
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Given the relative ease of the hunts, buff and sable are high on the list, will book some years out and book the physically tougher stuff like Dahl and goat first. Tough to beat a BC hunt IMO....
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My wife wants a weird list if she goes again.
She's already got a caracal, impala, zebra, and blesbuck.
She wants:
1. ostrich... so she can make leather out of it for purse and boots.\
2. warthog... just because.
3. Genet- cause she loves cats.
4. honey badger... because of that crazy youtube video
5. porcupine... because they're cool.
6. a 2nd impala lol i think i would get along with your wife, my list is oddball too... !: hyena, want a skull in a bad way for some reason 2: not sure if you throw this on the level of big 5 but hippo, they facinate me to no end 3: croc 4: nyala, after seeing the mounts JJ has at his place they are gorgeous 5: warthog
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In no particular order: -cape buffalo (cow) -eland -black wildebeest -zebra -waterbuck -springbok -blesbok -warthog -bushpig -nyala The "list" is ever changing; I never really thought about eland or nyala until I saw them in the wild on my first safari. Offer subject to change without notice!
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Gemsbok - check
Blesbok - check
Waterbuck - check
Kudu - check
Impala - check
Still want:
Nyala
Bushbuck
Springbok
Zebra
Black and Blue Wildebeest
Another Kudu if I can find one 55"+ give or take
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I'm going to KwaZulu Natal next May, targeting nyala and bushbuck.
Frank
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Kudu is by far the best animal to hunt but top of mine will be hyena, and sable
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1) Sable
2) Nyala
3) Gemsbok
4) Kudu
5) Waterbuck
6) Red Lechewe
7) L.D.Eland
Damn I think I just blew thru 30grand
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You blew through 30 grand on #7 alone.....
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Given the relative ease of the hunts, buff and sable are high on the list, will book some years out and book the physically tougher stuff like Dahl and goat first. Tough to beat a BC hunt IMO.... Ed I watched a Goat hunt from BC on TV this weekend and it looked incredibly difficult. I think it would be a great hunt/adventure but for me a hunt that tough is only a distant memory. I hope you make it happen. Bev
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You blew through 30 grand on #7 alone..... I knew the Sable was high but I didn't know the Lord Derby was that high. Oh well a man can still dream.
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#1 thru 5 will cost you another 30 grand. I don't know about Red lechwe......
Too bad...they were fractions of this 15 years ago...
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Yea I'm slowly coming to realize that I may never make it over there. I've taken a Gemsbok, several Oryx,a blackbuck and many Axis back home in Texas but I'm really wanting to try Africa. I'm thinking for me that it's likely that ship has sailed!
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Kudu, gemsbok, impala,springbok,eland ( either Cape or Livingstones) and a host of other critters are still widely available at good prices through Namibia ( my first choice) or RSA.....
A good package can be put together for 10K...plus travel and shipping of trophies.
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Poobah, I hate to bring this up............but you were charged with executing a non stop flight from US to Windhoek. How's that coming along?
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Nothing yet. All my efforts have been to no avail, despite the booming popularity of Namibia as a Safari destination.
I truly don't get it...at least a couple flights per week during the busy season would fill up....
And I'd be on one of them!
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No doubt. Keep the pressure on if you don't mind.
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Wasn't sure I'd make it back but finally decided on a Zim safari next month. The list is not too long
Nyala
Bushbuck
Zebra
Impala - if we spot a good one
At least one warthog
Undecided on a giraffe
Fascinated by those spiral horns
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