A Place to Hunt Trophy Korrigum in Cameroon

Jean Pierre Bernon of Club Faune (http://www.fauna-safari-club.com/) says he has secured a hunting concession in northern Cameroon that holds good numbers of korrigum and offers a quota of eight. Bernon says he has two other areas in Cameroon and only one of them gets a quota for this species, with only two korrigum available. This new northern area also offers Lord Derby eland, roan, western savannah buffalo, etc. But Bernon pushed the area as the place to get a trophy korrigum. Before I could mention the area in The Hunting Report, I received an enthusiastic report on it from subscriber Pavel Sidorov (Pavel.Sidorov@advgroup.ru) who had just returned from this hunt. I will let him tell you about it: "My main objective was one animal  korrigum. I already tried to hunt it once several years ago in northern CAR, but due to the political instability in that region the hunt was cancelled at the last moment. So, last year I realized that the only place where I could now hunt this antelope was northern Cameroon. I did some research and was about to book a hunt with Mayo Oldiri, as everybody was sure it is the only place/company to hunt korrigum, but then I got a proposal from Club Faune to hunt in an area where the number of korrigum was supposedly very healthy, whatever that meant. I was impressed by their confidence and decided to try.

"Just before the hunt, a Spanish outfitter friend told me that I was making a big mistake. He believed that no such place exists. And this man has been in northern Cameroon plenty of times. "My hunt started the day after I arrived in the town of Garua. Late that evening we went for a short drive. Immediately, just a few kilometers from the camp, we bumped into a big herd of about 50 Lord Derby eland. Interestingly, the animals ran about 100 meters then stopped and started feeding, not paying much attention to our car. In a few minutes a big old bull separated from the herd and started moving along the road in the........(continued)