FS: South Africa Safari

ltsheets

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I know it\'s not the classifieds but I thought it\'d get more views here.

One of my friends who was set to go on a safari next year is now unable to go and has already paid his deposit. Currently there is definitely 1 spot available as another friend is considering the 2nd opening. If he can\'t do it there will be 2 openings. This hunt was an RMEF donated hunt that I won in the action in March. The details are below...

Each spot costs $600. This $600 includes...
- 10 days, 2 travel and 8 hunting
- 1 Common Springbuck
- 1 Common Blesbuck
- Room
- Food
- Open bar
- Travel to and from Port Elisabeth
- Field care of your animals

The dates of this hunt are 11-20 July.

Please feel free to ask any questions and I will post if/when that second spot opens up. The link below is who we will be hunting with.

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I wouldn\'t be able to make the trip, but you get all of that for $600? That\'s crazy!
 
I figured the value of what you get for $600 is about $1800 or so. This same hunt went for as much as 2k per person for the same package several yrs ago.
 
Any idea what the rest of the costs might be? Sounds like all you\'re really missing is airfare and possibly hotel on the off nights. Then costs to get horns/hides back to the states. And tips.

Sure sounds good.
 
2 nights hotel in Joberg, taxi, airfare, tip, and additional animals are most of what\'s left. It\'s def a great deal to get things rolling but it\'s stil expensive.
 
\"Colorado Russ\" said:
Any idea what the rest of the costs might be? Sounds like all you\'re really missing is airfare and possibly hotel on the off nights. Then costs to get horns/hides back to the states. And tips.

Sure sounds good.

Minimum $2K for flight.
$100-200 for night(s) in Joberg
Tips (rule of thumb is around 10% of the daily rate.)
Dip, Pack and ship fees ($1-2K)

Another $2-$5K for extra trophy fees. The real cost is in travel, dip and ship and daily rates. Once you are there you should take advantage shooting as many animals as you possibly can afford.

Add another $6-7K and you can shoot a ton of animals and have a REALLY awesome trip. Of course you can do it much cheaper by not adding the extra animals but the animals are the cheapest part. Also....I would advise anyone unless you are dead set against it to do euros. You can add another $600-800 per animal for taxidermy fees when you get home.
 
I would advise anyone who\'s interested to look at the trophy fees on the website. Some animals are as cheap as $300. I\'ve also been quoted 750-1k to get the animals back if you shoot about 6 animals.

Lots of good info in Bowfreaks post though.

\"Bowfreak\" said:
\"Colorado Russ\" said:
Any idea what the rest of the costs might be? Sounds like all you\'re really missing is airfare and possibly hotel on the off nights. Then costs to get horns/hides back to the states. And tips.

Sure sounds good.

Minimum $2K for flight.
$100-200 for night(s) in Joberg
Tips (rule of thumb is around 10% of the daily rate.)
Dip, Pack and ship fees ($1-2K)

Another $2-$5K for extra trophy fees. The real cost is in travel, dip and ship and daily rates. Once you are there you should take advantage shooting as many animals as you possibly can afford.

Add another $6-7K and you can shoot a ton of animals and have a REALLY awesome trip. Of course you can do it much cheaper by not adding the extra animals but the animals are the cheapest part. Also....I would advise anyone unless you are dead set against it to do euros. You can add another $600-800 per animal for taxidermy fees when you get home.
 
\"elky McElkerson\" said:
dang. i would be happy with the original $600 list!!

of course i would need to buy a new rifle. ;)

I\'ll take that \"puny\" .257 WBY off your hands. :D
 
If a guy is interested in shooting 6-8 animals you could plan on doing 2 trips. Each trip would probably run you $6k or you could do one trip for $8k. Numbers are just rough but it truly is that big of a difference.

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The benefit here is the 2 included animals at that price. I\'m looking at 4600 in animals for Kudu, nyala, Impala, wildebeest, and the included. Kudu and nyala are \"trophy\" animals. If I shot 6 \"common\" species, it could be half that.
 
\"ltsheets\" said:
The benefit here is the 2 included animals at that price. I\'m looking at 4600 in animals for Kudu, nyala, Impala, wildebeest, and the included. Kudu and nyala are \"trophy\" animals. If I shot 6 \"common\" species, it could be half that.

Is that trophy fees and daily rates included for $4600?
 
All daily rates are included in the $600. The $4500 for animals is blessbuck $0, Springbuck $0, Kudu $1300, Nyala $1800-2000, Wildebeest $800, and Impala $400. With those numbers that\'s 6 animals for $4300-4500 depending on the cost of the Nyala. Those are trophy fees only. If you stuck with common game you could hunt 6 animals for almost half that in trophy fees depending on what you chose to take.
 
\"ltsheets\" said:
All daily rates are included in the $600. The $4500 for animals is blessbuck $0, Springbuck $0, Kudu $1300, Nyala $1800-2000, Wildebeest $800, and Impala $400. With those numbers that\'s 6 animals for $4300-4500 depending on the cost of the Nyala. Those are trophy fees only. If you stuck with common game you could hunt 6 animals for almost half that in trophy fees depending on what you chose to take.

Those are good trophy fees and pretty much what I paid in 2012. I would expect the place I went would be higher than that now. $1,300 for a Kudu is pretty darn good. They were like $1950 where I hunted but all of the other animals were pretty much the same (other than your inclusive animals). If you have the coin I sure as heck would jump on those rates and hunt those 6 animals. Having basically no charge for daily rates is saving you $1-$2K. Once you do your flight, dip and pack and then pay a trophy broker you are going to be right at $8K. You can save quite a bit if you can claim your own trophies and not have to pay a customs broker.
 

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