For the price of a gemsbok trophy fee in Texas you could fly to South Africa or Namibia and hunt your gemsbok, as well as a few other antelope, in their home range. Hunting in South Africa and Namibia are the best bargains in hunting that there are. I suspect that you would also find the experience to be more memorable.

I found gemsbok to be pretty tasty, but axis is hard to beat.

For the price of a gemsbok trophy fee in Texas you could fly to South Africa or Namibia and hunt your gemsbok, as well as a few other antelope, in their home range. Hunting in South Africa and Namibia are the best bargains in hunting that there are. I suspect that you would also find the experience to be more memorable.

I found gemsbok to be pretty tasty, but axis is hard to beat.

I shot this one (broken horn) and a broken horn waterbuck with Clemons Brothers Outfitting. They are great guys and run a great hun on an incredible ranch.

Yea but you cant bring back all that tasty meat back and when you add in shipping and other costs its not far off.

My Gemsbock from my hunt with Mulie Mike aka Mike Mckinney west Texas hunt organization.

I hunted them in New Mexico free range worth Mike Mckinney of West Texas Hunt Organization. Great hunt. In my opinion Gemsbock meat is far superior to axis.

For the price of a gemsbok trophy fee in Texas you could fly to South Africa or Namibia and hunt your gemsbok, as well as a few other antelope, in their home range. Hunting in South Africa and Namibia are the best bargains in hunting that there are. I suspect that you would also find the experience to be more memorable.

I found gemsbok to be pretty tasty, but axis is hard to beat.

Thanks for the responses guys.

Going to Africa isn't an option at this point. My buddy went 3 years ago and just now got his animals back. I know this probably isn't typical but I'm going to pass.

I am going to apply for the NM hunt next year but am guessing I will take a few years to draw. So, I am tempted to do one here in Texas if I can find a big ranch. I don't want to be hunting on 300 or 400 acre high fence.

I'll check out PBGSO and Clemons Brothers.

That is very true.
I did a research last night for my post in the bow hunting section (before I saw this post).
I found one outfitter in Texas that offers a 3 day 2 Night Gemsbok hunt for $8500.00 all inc.
In Africa the exact same hunt will cost $2400.00

With $8500.00 you can hunt 7 days and shoot a bunch of animals in Africa.

$8500 is not the norm i have seen them more reguarly.$4500-6500

Still a ridiculous number IMO.

I'd like to shoot one here in TX or NM myself, just so I could keep the meat. It's the best wild game I've ever had personally. I've also shot a lot of them in SA and Namibia, and as far as a hunting experience I can't imagine how any hunt in TX can top those Africa hunts. NM may be closer with the free range stuff, not sure.

I've found the pricing on the premium African animals like gemsbok here in TX to be ridiculously high though. Finally, I have done 10 animal hunts in Namibia with round trip air fare for $5500.