Don’t let anyone discourage you from hunting buffalo on your first African trip. It’s very feasible. Zimbabwe is likely your best bet as there are a number of excellent PH’s there, travel is easy and costs lower than other destinations. Personally, I’d avoid any high fenced hunt, so that excludes South Africa. The agents mentioned are all very good. I know all 3, have done business with two of them and would not hesitate to use any of them to book you on a quality hunt.
Give extra consideration to some of the big conservancies in Zimbabwe, Save Valley, Bubye Vally & Nuanetsi. All have excellent buffalo hunting as well as the other plains game you mentioned. The conservancies are surrounded by fences, but each is anywhere from 750,000 to over 1,000,000 unfenced acres inside. I don’t consider that high fence hunting.
