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Posted by Shakari "Trophy quality of Buff is certainly no better than anywhere else and nowadays (despite the BS you often read on websites etc) any Buff over 40 inches anywhere in Africa is unusual..... "

Very true. A 40" Buffalo has come to be the benchmark that a trophy hunter requires for a good hunt. Very hard to find, outside of select areas of Zambia and Masailand. Sure they are everywhere, they are in the Selous, Zimbabwe, Botswana, Caprivi. Just try to find one on a 7-day hunt and you could come up nuts.

Shoot the first 38-39" hard bossed bull you see, and be darn happy with the experience. That is a great Buffalo.

Now, there is a lot of misinformation on Mozambique here. Each one of us posts our own personal experiences. Mine differs from all of yours. And none of us are right ... or wrong for that matter. We are all accurate to describing a specific area.

Mozambique is an enormous country. It touches South Africa and Tanzania and a lot of other countries in between. Any time you cover this much ground, you will have varied terrain, game numbers, trophy quality etc.

Where I hunted in Moz had more Buffalo than I saw in the Selous during my brief 7-day hunt. (and I saw a lot of Buffalo in the Selous!) I saw 4 Buff here in Mozambique that I know were over 40" I saw them all in one day, in the same herd. One was 46 1/4. I know because I killed him. One other one was about 42 and two others were hard to judge, but if they were 41-42, it wouldn't surprise me. They were all together, along with about 200 other Buffalo. This was on the 5th day after bustin our butts to find a 39" Buffalo, which we never saw in the previous 4 days hunting.

The camps are great, the food is great. It is identical to a Zimbabwe hunt in the Zambezi valley.

That is the area of Mozambique that I know. I would love to go back. If I did I would look for a Buffalo of about 39" again. I think that is very reasonable in 7-days.

This area is sick with Elephant. More darn Elephant than I have ever seen before. This guy gets 3 CITES export permits. All his hunters are Spanish. I have a picture of me holding up two tusks from the same Elephant. 86 x 72 is a darn good Elephant.

The other two Elephant were both over 50. He has good Elephant here.

The USF&W will not issue an import permit for an Elephant shot in Mozambique. It makes no sense, but that is the problem with importing them into US. I do not believe you can go through SA with it either. That seems way to easy. The Elephant would have Mozambique CITES attached to it. I guess you could illegally get a SA CITES permit, saying it was shot in SA, but you are bound to get caught. It aint worth it!