From: Nitro (Original Message) Sent: 10/29/2002 10:32 PM

One of our members, Safari-Hunt has come up with a great idea. He is raffling off a Cape Buffalo hunt in South Africa for 2003. Check out the info below and also the web link.

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BUFFALO RAFFLE KLASERIE RSA FOR 2003

One hunter and one observer is going to have the chance of going on a buffalo hunt in the well known Klaserie district next to the well renowned Kruger Park. This will be on a 53 000 hectare (roughly 100 000 acres) concession which borders the park with no fence between the park and concession. This will be a 7 day hunt with 5 full hunting days. This concession has never been used commercially before and will be opened up for the first time in 2003. You will be hunting among the Big Five and will walk into other members of the big five and also a lot of buffalo. The bush is quite thick and you will need to get up close for an exiting hunt. The dates for the hunt are set but can be changed if other dates are available 4th - 10th of May 2003.

The raffle will end on the 5th of February 2003 and the draw will take place on the 17th of February. The tickets are limited to 150 only at a rate of $55 US per ticket there is no limit on how many tickets can be bought by a person. Each ticket is going to be allocated a number. You must also please tell me your names and where you are from, this will only be displayed when you are the winner.

The Draw.

This is how the draw will work firstly you will only be given numbers after all the tickets are sold the numbers are going to run from 1 -150 for the 150 tickets. You are going to be allocated numbers by a simple draw one bucket with names and one with numbers. We will draw a name and then a number and that will be your number most of you bought 2 tickets so you should have two different random numbers.

The final draw will start on the 17th of February we will get the numbers on which the Dow Jones have closed on the 16th example 34788.80 we will then take the last number before the decimal this is will be number 8. This is a even number and then we will get rid of all the odd numbers between 1 - 150 that will leave us with 75 numbers. So if you had number 2 ticket your ticket will now become number 1 ticket and then we will have numbers from 1 - 75. On the 18th we will take the closing number for Dow Jones again and again take the last number before the decimal. Example 35987.06 so we will take number 7, 7 being an uneven number we will get rid of all the even numbers between 1-75.

We will do this until we have the last 10 or less numbers the Dow Jones closing with the last number of 0 will go to number 10 and if we only have 9 numbers and it closes with the number 0 we will wait until it closes on a number that exist between the last batch of numbers.

What the raffle includes :

Pick up and drop off from Johannesburg international airport.
7 days full accommodation and boarding
1 Buffalo trophy
1 Impala trophy
1 Warthog trophy
Meals and drinks alcoholic as well in moderation.
PH, skinner tracker camp staff
Field preparation of trophy
Drop off, of trophy to local taxidermist

What the raffle excludes :

Airfare to RSA
Any accommodation outside the concession
Any other trophies hunted
Tips and gratuities
Taxidermy costs.
Other game that can be hunted :

Duiker Common.........................$150
Waterbuck…………………… ..$1000
Wildebeest Blue…………………$700
Zebra Burchell…………………..$800
Impala……………………………$230
Kudu…………………………….$770
Zebra Burchell…………………..$800
Gemsbuck……………………… $750
Eland.……………………… …..$1200
Warthog…………………………$225
Nyala….…………………………$1300
Red Hartebeest……… ………….$ 650

The observer can also become a hunter by paying an extra fee of $150 per day for the whole length of the hunt. You can hunt the buffalo with any caliber as long as it's a 375 H&H minimum. Payment will be done by money orders posted to an address in the USA from there it will be directly deposited into the outfitters account in RSA. There are some terms and conditions that needs to be agreed upon before buying a ticket this will be given to those who contact me and would like to participate in this raffle. As soon as you agree to the terms and conditions you will be given the address to where you need to send the money order. Here is my e-mail address frederikc@aosl.co.za

Klaserie Buffalo Hunt Raffle web site

Here is some photos of the terrain as you can see you will need to get close to the buffalo.

information as at 1 Jan, 2003