Tanzania Hunting?

[sjuels]

My in-laws moved to Kenya about a year ago, and the wife recently got back from a 3-week visit, where she took lots of pictures from all the parks she visited - I had to work and couldn't go.

BUT - wife is planning a trip next year again, and I would like to make a small detour to Tanzania for a few weeks for me alone - hunting - since there is no hunting allowed in Kenya.

My Question is: where do I start?
Litterature, contacts, what to hunt (I have a BIG dream of stalking Cape Buffalo in tall grass, and Guinea fowl is another one), guns and calibers ....

Thanks,
/Soren

 

[jjhack]

Tanzania is probably the second most expensive destination you will find in all of Africa. Botswana being more on Average. You will need to hook up with a charter company to get you to a hunting camp, and with the restrictive times they have you could be paying for a 14-21 day hunt regardless of how long you stay. Daily fee in Tanzania will range from 1000.00 per day to 1500.00 per day without pulling the trigger, you have to add trophy fees to that amount. With a 14 day minimum hunt your into this over 20K easy!

Your better off using a commercial flight to South Africa and hunting for 6-10 days for about 1/10th the cost. My daily fee's are 250 bucks for plains game hunting. Then fly home from there. A typical hunt in Tanzania will be pushing 20K and in RSA or Namibia you will be in the 5-6K range and you will shoot twice as much game for that amount.

Since I don't know you, maybe that 20K plus price tag is no problem. For that matter you could have the hunt of a lifetime in Tanzania. But the average guys that hunt with me in RSA usually spend way less then 10K each.

 

[sjuels]

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Tanzania is probably the second most expensive destination you will find in all of Africa. Botswana being more on Average. You will need to hook up with a charter company to get you to a hunting camp, and with the restrictive times they have you could be paying for a 14-21 day hunt regardless of how long you stay. Daily fee in Tanzania will range from 1000.00 per day to 1500.00 per day without pulling the trigger, you have to add trophy fees to that amount. With a 14 day minimum hunt your into this over 20K easy!

Your better off using a commercial flight to South Africa and hunting for 6-10 days for about 1/10th the cost. My daily fee's are 250 bucks for plains game hunting. Then fly home from there. A typical hunt in Tanzania will be pushing 20K and in RSA or Namibia you will be in the 5-6K range and you will shoot twice as much game for that amount.

Since I don't know you, maybe that 20K plus price tag is no problem. For that matter you could have the hunt of a lifetime in Tanzania. But the average guys that hunt with me in RSA usually spend way less then 10K each.[/b]

$20k would definitely put me in divorce talks with the wife

But I consider it a once-in-a-lifetime event (untill next time).
I would not want a comfortable trip - roughing it, is my idea of good fun - also, my idea of hunting is not to have the guide/PH do all the hard work, and then I just show up for the final kill; long stalks and physical hard work is what makes me feel that I earned the price of an animals life.

I found your link - I'll give you a call later in the week.
I'll read up on RSA and Botswana.

Regards,
/Soren

PS: sjuels at yahoo dot com