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Old 09-22-2012, 07:14 PM
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Orion/CO
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I don't know what the current prices are, but I bowhunted in South Africa in 2000 for plains game (way up north along the Limpopo river and the Zimbabwe border). Back then we did a 5 day hunt which was $200/day for food, lodging, and guide, and each animal had a price tag. Impala and warthog were $150 each, zebra, gemsbok, and kudu were around $600 each, and eland were about $1000. Baboons and guinea fowl were free to shoot. I shot a baboon, warthog, and paid for 2 impala (I wounded one and lost it, but I still had to pay for it). My dad got an impala and kudu. Round trip plane fare was about $1500 and it cost another $1500 to get everything shipped back plus all the extra fees. So in all it cost about $5000 per person (which included a few extra days of sight seeing), but again, that was over 10 years ago so I don't know how much it's gone up since then.
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