Actually I think if one was hunting on the ranch for plains game, and there were also a handfull (better if even more) of cape buffalo wild or semi-wild on the ranch, it would be quite cool. In Africa when hunting plains game I always find it more fun if you are hunting somewhere which also has elephant or buffalo or big cats ....... A lions roar in the distance or at night ..... Finding elephant spoor and droppings over the blood splotches of a wounded zebra you are following up ..... all add to the fun of the hunt.

Hunting cape buffalo at a place like that would not be for me, however if they are appeared wild - I have seen water buffalo behind wire on a very large property that were tame as cows - and were cheap enough why not? It is still hunting. Usually the price is a multiple of what it costs in Africa in Texas.

But it would be fun to hunt an eland for meat, down the road (not down my road, but for you!

) if the price was right. If the hunting was hard and fun it is still a trophy. Just not an African trophy.