Botswana

Botswana's Ghanzi District is located right in the Kalahari. This area is truly Africa's jewel for plains game hunting. Still widely unexploited for plains game, our areas border the Central Kalahari game reserve and support very large numbers of animals with outstanding trophy quality. The eland, kudu, gemsbok, blue wildebeest, red hartebeest, and springbok in this area are of a trophy quality not to be found any where else in Africa in such abundance.

In the summer of 2004, my wife Li and I hunted these concessions for four days as a part of a quality assessment and research trip to our hunting areas in Africa. In these four days we took two eland, 33" and 35" (which are not spectacular for this area but still make the book handily, many 38" to 42" eland are taken regularly), a 14" springbok, a 42" gemsbok, a 25" red hartebeest, and a very large zebra stallion. We saw so many big wildebeest we got tired of looking at them. We saw approximately 10 kudu bulls over 54" and one that was easily over 58" (if only we were hunting kudu...well, there's always next time). --Mike Wodjenski

	1 hunter with 1 professional hunter	2 hunters with 1 professional hunter	Observers
Fee per day in US$:	$400	$325 per hunter	$200

Daily rates include:
- Services of a professional hunter
- Accommodations
- Food and beverages (including alcohol)
- Transportation to and from Maun Airport
- Daily laundry and maid service
- Services of trackers and skinners
- Preparation and care of trophies
- Transportation of trophies to a local taxidermist
- All transportation during the course of the hunt
- All licenses and permits (except CITES permits issued in the receiving country)
- Value Added Tax

Daily rates exclude:
- Airfare
- Accommodations before and after the hunt
- Purchase of souvenirs
- Entrance fees to game viewing parks
- Dipping and shipping of trophies out of Botswana
- Taxidermy
- Tips and gratuities to staff
- Permits issued by the receiving country (CITES)

Species	Fee in US$
Blesbok	$450
Duiker, Grey	$220
Eland, Cape	$1500
Gemsbok	$950
Hartebeest, Red	$850
Impala, Southern	$450
Kudu, Greater	$1300
Leopard	POR
Ostrich	$600
Springbok	$450
Steenbok	$220
Warthog	$400
Wildebeest, Blue	$850
Zebra, Burchell's	$850

Wing Shooting

Species	Fee in US$
Francolin	$5
Guinea Fwol	$5
Sand Grouse	$5