Well, here we are from the first thoughts of the trip, to the fantasy to the reality of the hunting in Africa.
I am not sure what I should offer up on this because you're there now after part 5. The rest is up to the outfitter and your shooting skills.
So lets open this up to what ever questions you have and see where it goes. I've owned and run Hunting Adventures since 1993.
What can I help you with, or what is there that intimidates or confuses you about hunting in Africa? I may not have all the answers, but with the resources here I have including Pieter,.... we will find the answers for you if we don't know!
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I have hunted in South Africa 2 times . From what I have seen and heard All South Africa hunting is high fence . Some of the areas may be over 200,000 acres but still high fenced . I seen areas that 20 or so different land owners had small low fence between their land lines but high fence around all 20 land owners . So my question is . Is there any hunting in South Africa that is truly open and not high fenced in any way ?
Yep, much of it is. Remember though that the Northern Province is not fenced because the landowner or business wants this. It's fenced because 75 years ago the law said you can be exempt from game regulations if you only hunt game on your land. It was the requirement of the government that landowners and outfitters could not hunt publicly owned game.
The result was Government acceptance of a policy that allows private landowners to hunt all they want for the game that is only on their land. They could not shoot the game owned buy the government. Some of the properties in the Northern province were not fenced by the landowners, but entirely by the neighbors who did not want wild game with Hoof and mouth coming in contact with their livestock. Many of the properties I have seen and used have fenced sections that were like this for 75 year or more! Live stock disease is a huge problem in all of Africa. One reason why the CDC in America to this day requires an AG permit for wild swine and primates to this day.
In any case the fenced areas are as you say gigantic by American standards. Nobody I know would complain about shooting a brown bear on a coastal Alaskan Island, but they are smaller then many "high fenced" farms in Africa. Fenced by the sea, or by agricultural farmers 75 years ago? Makes no matter to me.
One thing that does bug me is that in the majority of the Eastern Cape, non natural game is hunted. There are only 6 species of indigenous big game there. But they have caught captured and relocated natural wild game from the northern Province and now farm it like live stock to hunting locations. If you have shot a wildebeest, blue or black, greater Kudu, zebra, hartebeest, impala, warthog, waterbuck, eland, etc etc in the eastern cape it was stocked there. none of them are any more natural in that habitat then a cape buffalo or zebra in Texas.
Few American realize that all African game does not live in all of Africa. As a sportsman and hunter would you be impressed by a South African guy that told you he shot a Musk ox, Dall Sheep, Moose, Pronghorn, Elk and Mule deer in America in one week? Of course we all would. But how about if he said they were all killed on a private farm in Florida?
Quite the let down eh! No different then the Eastern Cape of South Africa!
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