Rifle and bow safaris in the Limpopo bushveld, hosted by a South African professional hunter who takes six parties a season and no more. Thirty species, one camp, and nobody shooting off the back of a truck.
Bosman Safaris is the hunting arm of a family that has farmed and managed this part of Limpopo for two generations. We are not a booking agency and we do not sub-contract your safari to whoever has an open week. When you book, you hunt with us, on our concessions, on foot.
That is the reason we cap the season at six parties. It is enough to run the operation properly and few enough that the animals never learn what a vehicle means. If a bull is not old enough, we will tell you so and we will keep walking.
Most of our clients fly in from the United States, Canada and Europe. We know exactly what that trip asks of you, and we handle the permits, the transfers and the trophy paperwork so that the only thing you have to get right is your shooting.
Every one of them on foot, and every one of them fair chase. Nothing here is put-and-take, nothing is high-fenced into a corner, and no animal on our quota was released this season.
Daily rates, trophy fees, full board and transfers in one figure. Nothing gets added in camp except the animals you choose to add.
Five trophies, seven days, one professional hunter
Seven days over water and green feed
Ten days on free-range Cape buffalo
Hunting in South Africa has a reputation problem, and a good deal of it is earned. Here is exactly how we operate, in writing, before you pay us anything.
No animal on our quota was released for the season. Everything you hunt was born on this ground and has spent its whole life avoiding being found.
The vehicle gets you to the area and then it stops. We do not shoot from it, we do not drive animals to it, and we do not use it to close the last hundred metres.
Our lion are free-range animals taken on an allocated permit. We do not offer captive-bred lion, we will not book one for you through anyone else, and we will tell you plainly if that is what you are asking for. Leopard is hunted only against a CITES permit we already hold.
Meat goes to the camp kitchen, to our staff and their families, and to the surrounding community. Nothing is left in the veld and nothing is wasted.
Every animal on our list comes with a typical trophy size, a difficulty read and a straight answer on whether it is realistically bow-huntable here.
| Species | Typical | Difficulty | Bow | Trophy fee |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Greater KuduTragelaphus strepsiceros | 52–56" | Yes | $2,950 | |
| Cape BuffaloSyncerus caffer | 38–42" | — | $14,500 | |
| Sable AntelopeHippotragus niger | 40–44" | Yes | $6,500 | |
| GemsbokOryx gazella | 36–40" | Yes | $1,750 | |
| NyalaTragelaphus angasii | 27–29" | Yes | $3,250 | |
| Cape ElandTaurotragus oryx | 35–39" | Yes | $3,450 |
Fees are indicative, quoted in United States dollars and move with the rand/dollar rate. Your written quote is the rate you pay.
You are hunting hard from before dawn until after dark. What happens in between matters more than most outfitters admit. Our camp holds twelve guests at a time and never more than one hunting party.
Roughly nine in ten of our clients fly in from North America or Europe. This is the whole trip, start to finish, with no surprises left in it.
Direct flights into Johannesburg from Atlanta, New York, Washington, London and most European hubs. We meet you at arrivals and drive you in.
We prepare and pre-submit your SAPS 520 so the permit is waiting when you land, rather than being filled in at a desk with a queue behind you.
Every hunter shoots on arrival, without exception. If your scope moved in transit, we would all rather find out on the range than on a kudu.
Field prep, registered taxidermist, dip-and-pack or full mounts, crating and freight. We make the introductions and track it until it lands.
Third trip to Africa and the first one where the PH said no to an animal on my behalf. That told me everything I needed to know about how they operate.
I shoot a bow and I have been talked into rifle hunts by outfitters twice before. Here the blinds were rested, watered and set for the wind, and I had a shot inside thirty yards on five of the seven days.
My wife does not hunt and she has already asked when we are going back. That is not something I expected to be writing in a review of a buffalo safari.
Send us your dates, your species list and your budget, and we will come back within one business day with an honest itinerary — including what we think is unrealistic about it.
