Home Forums Hunting & Shooting Africa It’s 2023, where is everyone hunting this year?

It’s been kinda slow on this Africa forum lately, so let’s liven things up with a discussion of what hunts everyone has booked for this year or hopes to do in 2023.

I leave in less than 2 weeks to hunt mule deer in Sonora. Then, I’m taking my daughter and her boyfriend on a non-hunting trip to Kenya & Tanzania in February. 2 weeks on Masai-Mara and Tsavo combined with time on the coast enjoying the Indian Ocean. They’re going to finish up by climbing Mt. Kilimanjaro after I head back home.

Then in August, I’m taking my son to hunt in the Selous Game Reserve with Alan Vincent. 10-days for him and 16 for me since he has to come home early. Gonna be some great buffalo hunting on MA1/Madaba.

After that it’s whatever I might draw in a western state. Applying for some great sheep and elk tags with tons of points, so it’ll be interesting to see what I might draw.

After all that, I have 3 more African hunts booked across 2024 & 2025 in 3 different countries.


What is everyone else doing in 2023?

CAelknuts you have great plans! Hope they all work out. The Masai-Mara is wonderful especially during the big wildebeest migrations and the Selous is a special place to hunt for sure.

I'm hunting in Zimbabwe in the first week of March, doing a little tour of Victoria falls with my wife first and then on to some game viewing in Hwange National park. After that we will hunt an elephant bull just South of Hwange in a forest reserve where the elephants are overpopulated, damaging the valuable teak trees and are not very welcome by the farmers around there either. My first elephant hunt, so I booked the best, Buzz Charlton. It should be an adventure!

You’re going to also have a wonderful hunt. Vic Falls is a special place. You’ll find that the elephants in western Zim are huge bodied bulls. I’ve shot old bulls on Matetsi 3 and Deka and each was an exceptionally large bodied bull. You’ll love it.

First hunt in Africa. Going with Leon duPlessis. 10 day buffalo hunt in August this year. I am 68 and feel like a child at Christmas!

Zambia with a bow for croc, hippo and buff. Late season in October, which is gonna make the buff with a bow interesting.

Tony, sounds like you’ll be hunting in Luangwa Valley. Which concession and PH will you be hunting with. Gonna be HOT!

Afraid I will be limited to Central Texas this year. But looking forward to 2026!
Kevin

Namibia for leopard in July.

I've taken big toms in Ehi-Rovipuka and Omatendeka Conservancies so I thought I'd give the neighboring Ozondundu a shot.

Headed over next month. SA for a week then to Nam for three.

Early may in NW Zimbabwe for bull elephant with Lin Stanton/Mbalabala.

Going to be meeting with a few outfitters at SCI in Nashiville next month to discuss buffalo/leopard for 2025.

I will not be making the journey this year, my wife and I will be recovering from knee replacement surgery.

I am looking at 2024 now, chatting with different PH’s about hippo and croc hunts and or a leopard hunt.

I plan to take in the DSC convention in 2024 and visit in person with the PH’s that i am trading e mails with.

Eastern Cape, April 10-May 1 (includes travel time). Third time with Hotfire Safaris. Species list is a little up in the air as I have a budget for trophy fees in mind, and I have to fit as much as I can into that budget.

At the moment, I'm looking at barbary sheep, sable, common reedbuck, African lynx (caracal), common duiker. And there goes $10,000.

I'm thinking of a cow buffalo & eland in the Limpopo region of SA.

Nothing planned for 2023 but I will be in Dallas on Fri/Sat and may kick around something for 2024.

Can't remember. Not good with those African regions (all those names sound the same to me). Butch Coaton, my PH is handling the details. Coordinated our schedules for next year. We usually discuss what's next during our hunt and he arranges the rest.

I don't know where but whenever or if ever i make enough cash,I might do a double buff.An eland too and a sable.Sometimes I dream of doing another leopard hunt- liked reading Jim Corbett.Elephant seems over for me.I had a great ele hunt once in Moz..It's kinda fun not having any idea when (if ever)or where the next hunt will be-it's like a sweet mystery.Nothing compares to africa.

In July off to hunt Sitatunga with Charlie Harvey in Zambia and in August a hunt with Nick Bowker Safaris in the Eastern Cape.

2024 Medium Game hunting and fishing with Faro Safaris in Cameroun
2025 Medium Game - Bushbuck, Kobs... in Uganda
2026 Who knows

At least that is the plan.

Singleshot

You’ve got a great plan with interesting hunts.

Zambia for Bangweulu Black Lechwe & Tsesseebe, then Luangwa Valley for Buffalo & Cookson’s Wildebeest. 404 Jeffery & 338-06.

You’ve got a nice deal going with Andrew, seems like you’ve had a good run together.