Species Available for Hunting
Please see the Trophy Animals Available for 2012 in the “Photo Gallery” section for a glimpse of the trophy animals which will be made available for the 2012 season.
The following species are available to hunt on Chimoyo:
- African Buffalo
- Sable Antelope
- Leopard (cites permit required)
- Kudu
- Eland
- Giraffe
- Burchell’s Zebra
- Blue Wildebeest
- Waterbuck
- Nyala
- Bushbuck
- Impala
- Warthog
- Common Reedbuck
- Common Duiker
- Steenbuck
- Caracal
- Black Backed Jackal
- Baboon
- Several Bird Species Like Guinea Fowl and Francolin
- Red Hartebeest
- Gemsbok/Oryx
- Vervet Monkey
All the buffalo on Chimoyo are certified disease free and originating from East African/Kruger National Park parent stock. The large majority of Chimoyo’s buffalo herd is free-ranging on the entire property and a number of bulls are selected each year for trophy hunting purposes. Strict sanitary measures are in place to ensure the ongoing disease free status of Chimoyo’s buffalo herd.
Robert Ruark, a well-known American hunter, writes the following about buffalo hunting:
“I am going back to Africa soon. I do not intend to shoot much. Certainly I will never kill another lion, nor do I intend to duplicate most of the trophies I acquired on the last safari. But I will hunt Mbogo. In fear and trembling I will hunt Mbogo every time I see him, and I won’t shoot him unless he is a mile bigger than the ones I’ve got. I will hate myself while I crawl and shake and tremble and sweat, but I will hunt him. Once you got the buffalo fever, the rest of the stuff seems mighty small and awful tame.”
