re: Africa hunting trip

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Looking at their pricelist, does anyone know what drives the wildly different prices?

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PH's guide on a concession which vary in size and are measured in hectares. A 12,000 hectare concession is approximately 30,000 acres or 50 sq miles. If rifle hunting and stalking, you can easily walk 8-10 miles a day. You gotta be in shape and have a good pair of broken-in, comfortable boots.

The concession is managed according to the number of game species in a given year. If they have an abundance of impala, or warthogs the price goes down in order to cull a given quota. If they have a very limited number of Sable antelope, the price goes way up. Basically "supply and demand" in conjunction with how many animals need to be harvested during the season.

Go look up prices for a Bongo. Make sure you're sitting down. Leopards are also very pricey, and you have to book a 14-21 day trip. You sit in a blind in pitch black darkness all night waiting for the leopard to climb a tree and eat the bait. You can only shoot males so if it has NO balls, you can't shoot. I have friends that have been to Africa multiple times and have yet to kill a leopard. Once you go to the Dark Continent, that shite gets in your blood and you want to go back.