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I was worried, too many!

IT was GOOD it was only us. As the place had been shot out in the weeks before by a chopper. The owners often don't tell you stuff like that when taking your money ... Orion and I had a successful enough hunt, mainly at dawn and dusk. We weren't into spotlighting, which some Aussies immediately think of when "hunting pigs".

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I learned from this as well. And from stories on the internet. I remember anither group hunt sold by an internet wannabe tout. Fall game and the accomodation some bessa concrete brick shed ... the guys going were not happy when coming home and demanded refunds.

So I learned whoever is hosting the hunt needs to know the game species and game populations can support 5 or 6 hunters at the same time. And the property is large enough, not some 2500 acre fenced South African game property. People would bump into each other all the time, or fight over the 2.5 kudu running still on the place. The accomodation is to the standard sold and purchased. Most importantly to me, the hunting is on par with the sales putch.

Some guys in the US go to a Texas game ranch as a group and hunt eland and what not here. With double rifles. The hunting is mainly meat hunting. That works out well, Trophies make it a lot harder.

I mentioned a Top End hunt. If in a place with lots of pigs, probably separate to the buffalo country, where pigs may be present but far less of them, pig hunting is like meat hunting. Just for fun and a few tusks on the boars if lucky. Orion and I between us took some 33 or so boars in three days on one excelletn pig hunting country. It may be some sort of reserve now,, due to all the birdlife.

If say hunting 2 or 3 by 1, only one can hunt at a time, especially if after "trophy" buffalo. If culling buffalo, cheaper and not as much competition for a big set of horns. Group fun hunts are not serious times to want a proper trophy of any sort IMO. Unless individals or small groups split off for a period for serious hunting.

Just some thoughts.

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John aka NitroX

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