Blog

The Bushmen Safaris bow hunting experience begins with you being picked up at the airport in Johannesburg, and then you are driven to Bushmen Safaris for game viewing and a relaxing evening in beautiful South Africa. The African bow hunting safari experience starts the following day and continues for the customized length of your stay. On average, the typical hunt consists of 10 to 12 full hunting days, and every Bushmen Safaris bow hunting safari is tailored to meet your specific desires with your unsurpassed satisfaction being our foremost priority.

1. Upper Body Strength:

Repeated drawing and firing of a bow develops the major muscle groups of the upper body.

What type of bow should I bring and what draw weight should I use?
For plains game hunting, you should bring your normal big game set up you would use for whitetail, elk or any other type deer. We have archers who use compound, re-curve, and long bow as well as crossbows. The most important aspect of your hunt will be that you are familiar with your bow and equipment as well as African Game shot placement.

Bow hunters are a different breed: the kind that relishes the challenges of an up-close, high-stealth hunt, with all the frustrations and elation that entails. But that’s not the only thing that sets bow hunters apart from their gun-toting brethren.

Bushmen Safaris is a 22,000-acre wildlife conservancy in South Africa that has been archery-only since 1986. One of the biggest factors that sets Bushmen apart from the competition is the fact that we only take one group of clients per month during our annual seven months of hunting. By hunting this way, we are able to not only lower our hunting pressure on the animals but increases our clients' success substantially. Bushmen Safaris Hunters have taken 12 World Records, 63 Top 5 placings, 115 Top 10 placings, and 335 Top 25 placings. Bushmen's hunters continue to take high-scoring trophies as a result of this limited hunting pressure. The exceptional hunting experience at Bushmen Safaris brings back hunters’ year-after-year as we have an 80% record for return bow hunters over the past 15 years.

When? Make sure you have a date in mind when you start planning your safari. This way Bushmen Safaris can immediately let you know if we can accommodate you or not. There is nothing more frustrating than planning a safari and spending a lot of time doing it just to realize that you will not be able to make it because of other commitments.