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My next trip is for Kudu and Eland, After that some bow hunting for whatever!

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.

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.......

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've got a lot of roan available

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.

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

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.

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.

I thought about them too, but they are far from being called "common game" by today's standards.

more kudu and warthogs. Kudu because they affect me more than any other plains game, warthogs because they are so much fun.

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.

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!

Bill Quimby

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.

Greg

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....

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

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!

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

I'm going to KwaZulu Natal next May, targeting nyala and bushbuck.

Kudu is by far the best animal to hunt but top of mine will be hyena, and sable