I suppose one would eat an antelope or impala. But what about some of the other game that people go after? Do those of you that hunt Africa eat, for example, cape buffalo? Or are those kinds of hunts just a hunt for the thrill and the trophy?

Barsness says that buffalo are tough. Haven't tried them myself, personally....

I'm sure the camp staff & locals are happy to get anything the hunters don't eat.

My dad talked to a doctor that had shot an elephant a while back. Said the locals had butchered it completely, in about 5 hours.

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From my hunt (July 03) all the meat was hung in a cooler for a few days and then the carcasses loaded into a pickup for delivery to Johannesburg restaurants. Nothing is wasted on these hunts. So yes, you can go to a fine Johannesburg restaurant and order Kudu.

A few years ago, Iwent on a safari in southwest africa. I ended up paying over $10,000 for an elephant hunt, all expenses included. Then when I shot mine, I ended up having it processed. I ended up with hundreds of pounds of meat. Some of the local peoples and businesses payed pretty well for the meats. I ended up going back home to the U.S. with aout 60 lbs of meat, and the tusks. You would not believe what people offer you for foreign game meat. I almost made up all the money I spent to go. Then there was all the trouble trying to get my gun in and out of the country and bringing my meat home. When I finally felt up to trying some of the meat myself, It was actually kind of good, but very tough.

Most of the plains game animals taste very good. I have eaten Kudu, Red Heartabeast and a few others that fit into that catagory. With today's regulations I doubt that you could bring any meat into the US. When I returned US Customs held me up for about an hour because they thought that I had some biltong, (wild game jurky) in my luggage. For a while I didn't hink I would make my next filight. What was showing on their scope was a carved Kudu statue.

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How's that elephant compare to CMSU dorm food?

Any trouble importing the meat? I thought the USDA frowned on that, so any information you have might be useful to the other members.

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Actually, they did more than frown on it. They had to go through numerous inspections, and allow all the "formalities" to work themselves out. I don't about everything they did. I know that it was months before the meat was finally brought to me. It ended up being stated as "contraband", but after showing them the inspection report and proof of the game (tag/processing reciept), they were more lenient. I wouldn't recommend exporting or importing meats. You should probably eat what you can while your still in that country. But, hey they pay is great and the taste is reasonable. I still prefer CMSU dorm food though.

Hmmm...

Never had foreign game meat, but I would like to go on a safari one of these days

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No protene is wasted in Africa, and meat is not generally importable to the states from Africa. Even your trophies must go through a dip, and quarenteen for a period before they can be imported into the USA as well. Average is 8 months, to one year for your trophies to get to the states, then they have to be mounted. What meat is not used in camp is either sold on the meat market, in the RSA,or taken by the parks and wildlife to be distributed among the locals in the hunting area in the Camp fire areas of Zim, or Zam. In zambia the meat is usually turned into Biltong, and used to feed the locals who live in the hunting concession where it is taken.

If you think a pack of Hyenas can strip a skelleton, you haven't seen African locals work over an elephant. When they finish there is nothing left but bones and a wet spot where the ele was! In three days hunting, in the Upper Lupande, of the Luangwa Valley, I shot a Hippo, an Impala, a cape buffalo, a zebra, a cookson's wildebeast, and wart hog. That amounted to around 8000 lbs of meat, and the locals in a village that had little more than 1500 people, polished off the whole thing in less than a week, before I left.

Big fifty, that must have been a long time ago! $10K won't even pay the trophy fee on an elephant, much less cover the cost of an elephant hunt, within the last 25 years.

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BigFifty is no longer posting on this forum. I wouldn't pay much attention to that post.

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Yup - he's working in his imaginary gunshop, eating elephant sandwiches.

FYI, If you see 'banned' below any user's name, you can pretty well ignore anything they write....

I've heard of the impressive ability of the natives to strip down any carcass, thanks for sharing the story of your trip.

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Imaginary gunshop, eating elephant sanwiches, Mike G , that's priceless schtick , sums up what I thought about the worlds most fortunate college fella.

444fitch

Without getting into the details, what do you have to do to get banned? Hope there's no IRS reporting-

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To be banned, you need to become obnoxious, continually used profane language, flame the postings of others, post evident untrue statements and, in general, be an unpleasant house guest.

Knowing you as I do, no need to sweat, Tom!

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Tom - you'd have to work a lot harder at it, LOL, and learn some new words.....

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