Preparing for a Cape Buffalo Hunt
Backcountry Hunting Podcast
Joseph von Benedikt
4.9 • 1.1K Ratings
🗓️ 21 March 2025
⏱️ 70 minutes
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Summary
Hunting Africa's Cape Buffalo—known by hunters as "Black Death"—is one of the last great adventures readily available to hunters. Buffalo being legitimate dangerous game, it's crucial to have good gear, well sorted out, and to be prepared mentally and physically.
This episode, we sit down with Mark Haldane of Zambeze Delta Safaris and ask questions about an upcoming dangerous-game safari we'll be taking with Mark later this year. We talk rifles, cartridges, appropriate bullets, best type of scopes, what to expect during a typical day of hunting, malaria prevention, how to plan best travel arrangements, and so forth. This conversation was raw and real and incredibly helpful. ENJOY!
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| 0:00.0 | The African Cape Buffalo looks at you as if you owe him money. |
| 0:04.7 | Wrote Robert Rourke, who was one of the world's great safari writers of the past century. |
| 0:13.7 | He's long gone now, but look up Robert Rourke and read his books. |
| 0:18.7 | Use enough gun, Horn of the Hunter. |
| 0:23.4 | And all of them are just fantastic. |
| 0:32.6 | Hunting Cape Buffalo was and still is one of the great, dangerous game adventures that can be had around the world. |
| 0:34.5 | Game Buffalo are big. |
| 0:37.0 | They're extremely tough. They get really aggressive at times and hunting one is one of |
| 0:44.4 | those very raw primal experiences that every serious hunter should experience at some point in their |
| 0:53.4 | life if at all possible. It's an endeavor |
| 0:56.5 | not to be taken lightly. It's something that you want to do with adequate preparation, adequate |
| 1:02.5 | understanding and adequate capability with your equipment. And of course, the dreams of going to and spending time in that beautiful wild country in |
| 1:15.7 | Africa that the Cape Buffalo inhabits. |
| 1:18.8 | Following, my friends, is an episode that I recorded with Mark Haldane of Zambizi Delta |
| 1:25.3 | safaris and several friends of mine. |
| 1:27.6 | We're all going to Africa this fall in pursuit of Black Death, the Cape Buffalo. |
| 1:33.9 | And Mark answers our questions in this episode. |
| 1:36.5 | We talk about everything from travel arrangements to rifle, choice, and setup, cartridges, suitable bullets, the herd dynamics, what will be occurring at the time of year we're going to be there. |
| 1:50.9 | Shot placement, all of these different evolving and revolving things that occur during a Cape Buffalo Safari. |
| 1:59.9 | This is just fantastic stuff in this episode, my friends. |
| 2:05.1 | Audio is a little bit questionable. |
| 2:08.6 | It's a little bit shallow. |
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