Management animal?

[hunting1]

For those who have hunted SA before, what is a management animal? Broken horn, female, injured? I am booked for next July and one of the animals is a management animal.

 

[billc]

can be any of what you said. Normally it is animals they need to get numbers down on. Some animals are in just numbers that if let alone they will never take off enough in a season to control there numbers. Your normal cull animals are impala blebusk springbuck depending on areas. But wildebeest always need culled to and zebra get culled alot if there has been drought for awhile. Kudu and eland get culled sometimes also but they normally sell them to locals to hunt for meat hunts. If you get lucky and they dont deal with locals you could get to chase one of those.

 

[hunting1]

can be any of what you said. Normally it is animals they need to get numbers down on. Some animals are in just numbers that if let alone they will never take off enough in a season to control there numbers. Your normal cull animals are impala blebusk springbuck depending on areas. But wildebeest always need culled to and zebra get culled alot if there has been drought for awhile. Kudu and eland get culled sometimes also but they normally sell them to locals to hunt for meat hunts. If you get lucky and they dont deal with locals you could get to chase one of those.

Thank you, can't wait!

 

[Bushwack]

can be any of what you said. Normally it is animals they need to get numbers down on. Some animals are in just numbers that if let alone they will never take off enough in a season to control there numbers. Your normal cull animals are impala blebusk springbuck depending on areas. But wildebeest always need culled to and zebra get culled alot if there has been drought for awhile. Kudu and eland get culled sometimes also but they normally sell them to locals to hunt for meat hunts. If you get lucky and they dont deal with locals you could get to chase one of those.

For those who have hunted SA before, what is a management animal? Broken horn, female, injured? I am booked for next July and one of the animals is a management animal.

Cull animals like indicated has different naming to it - some examples

1. taking out non breeders, like old buffalo cows or young Impala ram that pestering your stud ram holding him back for mating...
2. No horn animals - females and males
3. Sick / injured animals
4. Problem / Rough Animals
5. or over just to many animals that is harsh on the land like Blue Wildebeest and Zebra especially in drought

all called game management...

 

[Blank]

Don't be surprised if they ask you to take more than that. They are owned by the landowner and they can do as they like. On my first trip over, he said he didn't want to impose but would I go out and shoot 5 gemsbok before we started hunting? He had promised his church a BBQ. Twist my arm!!!

 

[StickFlicker]

I've had hunts that added on a cull animal, and it has been animals like a female warthog, impala, wildebeest or even female kudu once. Sometimes, they will tell you that Impalas or wildebeest under a certain size are culls if you want to take them at a reduced fee. But I've been offered injured animals and/or broken horned animals as culls on occasion too.