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Wow beautiful. You shouldve blasted that rhino 
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Jerry M
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Only if you have about $75,000.Wow beautiful. You shouldve blasted that rhino
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It's way more than that, right?! The last guy who I heard shoot a rhino paid $350k!!
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That's amazing. I wouldn't shoot a rhino either. My dream is to go to Africa and hunt plains game. If I could hunt kudu, dyker, gazelle, wildebeest, and warthogs I would be pretty happy.
eastbank
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I understand some folks want to shoot Rhino and right now is probably the cheapest you will ever get one. Now that the Legal sale of legally harvested Rhino Horn has been stopped there are literally tens of thousands of surplus Rhinos. There were a great many raised free ranging for years to allow the harvest and sale of their horns by tranquilizer and then release to regrow the horn. Now that this is stopped the only viable use for them is as Trophies and meat.
I think this is really too bad. I like seeing Rhino while hunting. Personally I have never had a desire to shoot one. They are near sighted, easy to approach and because many have lived 15 years or more and have never been hunted they are not much afraid of people. Most Rhinos I have seen don't get testy till you get within tranquilizer range of one.
I like hunting plains game, it is a real challenge but to each his own. I would never say someone else shouldn't shoot Rhino, Elephant etc. Thanks for the kind words on the pictures.
I think this is really too bad. I like seeing Rhino while hunting. Personally I have never had a desire to shoot one. They are near sighted, easy to approach and because many have lived 15 years or more and have never been hunted they are not much afraid of people. Most Rhinos I have seen don't get testy till you get within tranquilizer range of one.
I like hunting plains game, it is a real challenge but to each his own. I would never say someone else shouldn't shoot Rhino, Elephant etc. Thanks for the kind words on the pictures.
BallisticsGuy
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It's a lot more affordable than you might think. When you get serious I highly recommend asking the guys here who've been there for some tips. I lucked out and happened into a situation that allowed me to go years before I thought I would. 100% life changing experience. For amazing fur coloration you're looking for springbok, bontebok, kudu, gemsbok (oryx). For killer bones you're looking for kudu, sable, impala, gemsbok. I know a guy with exactly your desired combination (plus a few more things) of animals on his ranch when you're ready. What you'll probably find weird is the feeling that you're doing a drive by shooting when hunting from the back of a bukkie (what they call a pickup).
Definitely look into these. They're surprisingly inexpensive species. They're all hard as heck to bring down too just like everything in Africa. I put heart shots on almost everything I shot while there (except for 1 head shot). My eland walked 2km with the top of its heart blown off. Everything else that wasn't a head shot went surprisingly far with a bullet hole square in the middle of the heart.
West Calamus
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They are pretty amazing beasts . Thx for sharing
Got a note from one of the outfitters over there. For those of you interested in hunting Rhino, right now you can take one in South Africa for between $10 and $15 thousand. Even for a dart hunt, this is probably the cheapest I have ever seen them. There is one outfitter in SA advertising exportable Rhino, obviously a non-dart type hunt, for $23K. Much less than hunting Namibia for one, which is about $75K, the problem being that even if you kill one in Namibia I doubt you can import the trophy to Canada or the States, though I have not checked that at all..
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