Okavango River Reserve 2.0 (Dangerous Game and Classic African game!!!)

[noble grove]

(A remastered version of https://discord.com/channels/393040947006406657/1138227889624588399)
Welcome to the beautiful banks and offshoots of the Okavango,Botswana!!! Along this great river’s banks you’ll find just about any species from this countries deep hunting history! With Small birds like guineafowl,Francolin quail and all the way up to the infamous Nile Crocodile lurking below in the murky depths and Hippopotamus ruling the waters,various species of famous antelope,The Widowmaker,and of course Lion with much more to hunt we hope you enjoy your visit to the Land of the Tsawana!
Fowl,0-1
Ground birds
Harlequin Quail
Coqui francolin
Helmeted guineafowl
Waterfowl,1-1.5
South African shelduck
African black duck
Cape Shovler
Spur-winged goose
Small game,1-3
•Vervet monkey-Class 2
•Bat-eared fox-2
•Chacma baboon-Class 3
Medium sized game,4-6
•Impala-Class 4
•Bushpig-Class 5
•Common Plains Zebra-Class 6
Big Game,7-9
•African Leopard-Class 7
•Nile Crocodile-Class 8
•Gemsbok-Class 8
•Cape Eland-Class 9

DANGEROUS GAME,9.5-10
•Lion-Class-9.5
•Cape Buffalo-Class 10
•Hippopotamus -Class 10
•Elephant-Class 10!!!

Additional Species (add if you’d like to)

Spur-winged goose
Common quail

•Springbok-Class 3
•Black-backed Jackal-Class 2
•Ostrich-Class 5/6
•Hippopotamus -Class 10 (Most sources say there’s no longer any hunting in Botswana sadly)

Okavango River Reserve 2.0 (Dangerous Game and Classic African game!!!)

[noble grove]

Weapons
It might be a big undertaking,but I’d love to see quite a few weapons alongside this reserve much like Way of the Hunter.
First! The Encore .458 Winchester “Perfect for anything you may encounter,whether it be Polar Bear in the Icy Tundra,Crocs amongst the mangroves,or even…a massive Bull Elephant,There’s nothing this versatile platform can’t do!”
Class,6-10

.375 H&H
“The long reigning champion of African hunting,the minimum for most big game in the modern day!”

80lb Bow
“Used for modern day big game hunting all across the world!!! You’ll find CB-80’s as far north as above the Arctic circle and as far south as Patagonia!”

Dangerous Game calibers!
.454
.470
9.3x74
.338 (would only be ethical for Lion with 10/50% score reduction based on if it kills you,and how fast the lion goes down).
Easily Added Big Game Ammo
.950 Grain arrow (Compound)
.800 (Traditional)

[sinful wren]

Could drop with a weapon/character pack with someone like Craig Boddington. Man's legendary for hunting Africa and wrote several books on rifle cartridges for Safari hunts

[noble grove]

That would be awesome!

[sinful wren]

Tiny 10 to Elephants, he's hunted all over Africa, he's big on Conservation, and a good image for all hunters (making comparison to Remi here)

[noble grove]

I’d love to see more of those …I don’t know what you’d call it,I guess Collabs like SRP,perhaps we could see Steve Rinella,or Remi Warren again!

[sinful wren]

I mean, (ugh) another NA map could be British Columbia's coastal area with Jim Shockey as the guest/RW. Maybe bring a .54 caliber muzzleloader along as a 6-9 with it?

[noble grove]

I need another gun with that class range.

[wanton ether]

bump

[noble grove]

Ban has been lifted,we are good to go,

[sinful wren]

Wouldn't mind swapping lions for hippo

[noble grove]

This article https://www.independent.co.uk/voices/campaigns/giantsclub/botswana/botswana-concern-over-status-of-trophy-hunting-b2320825.html# made me put them in possible although I’d certainly prefer Hippo over lions.

[sinful wren]

Hippos are absolutely more dangerous and they are much more aggressive, Lions don't attack canoes full of kids going to school and bite crocs in half

[noble grove]

Weirdly enough,I’m seeing more hippo and lion hunting in Botswana than I did making this list (dated as early as 2023)

[sinful wren]

It's probably because of the season change, dry season is much safer to hunt in and its mercifully cooler, at least for hippo hunting I'd rather be on land because they're so much faster in the water

Then again, I just watched a show where Jim Shockey went after a problem hippo that was raiding a village's crops and chasing people away. He was stalking the actual problem animal when another one charged from behind. it started like a hundred yards away and climbed into an out of a gulley to get at them. He took it down without anyone getting hurt but it was plain how stressed the whole crew was

[noble grove]

Makes sense.

[noble grove]

On that note,I’d like to see a portion of the map to be dedicated to Kalahari hunting,which would have the majority of your Antelope,Lions,Leopard,Vervet monkey and baboon (however both of the primates would be fairly map wide).

[little pecan]

There are massive lions in the Okavango Delta that got so big because they specialize in buffalo. On a side note I recall lion hunting and hunting in the Okavango itself was banned before the elephant ban and this was something I have been meaning to mention for a while and from what I am reading now the Okavango Delta has basically been given over to photographic safari operators, but for the sake of the reserve's story this reserve could be the first hunting area to be opened (reopened, idk) in the Okavango Delta Region in a long time

[sinful wren]

What if it's not a public reserve? What if the story is that you've been called in to specifically control numbers of animals? Even Photograph reserves have to manage the number of animals in an area to prevent overgrazing/disease spread

[little pecan]

I like the idea of opening/reopening a hunting area in the Okavango for the story direction myself but I have heard of some wildlife preserves in Europe doing what you just described

[sinful wren]

"We're almost ready for the tourist season, only we're not ready at all! We still have so much work to do, if you could help out by checking on the outposts as you travel around that would be a huge help. Oh! and the make sure the viewing towers are still safe enough for our guests to climb. I know it's a lot to ask, but Njabulo spoke highly of you" RW

[little pecan]

Maybe this reserve has a photographic area and your in the hunting area of the reserve, that could be one way to go about it

[sinful wren]

hmm, kinda made the warden sound like a whiny little annoyance. like someone who was OMG ITS A BADEN

[little pecan]

Swinging back to the Okavango Lions, they are truly massive due to mainly eating buffalo

[noble grove]

I’d love to see a couple world building missions like Srp where you have to carry water bottles,Yukon check the bear proof garbage cans,I believe Mississippi had a few too.

[sinful wren]

I swear I saw a documentary on them once, it stressed that they had become extremely good swimmers due to the habitat/buffalo loving the swamps. Also seem to vaguely remember them climbing dead trees to scout for prey

[noble grove]

Oh yeah

[sinful wren]

I'm stuck on the idea of weapons and little details left by other hunters #1200028022619775007 is where I posted the idea but it'd be really cool to be sent to a spot where someone saw a poacher and only finding a boot and their rifle "Ah, it seems the local crocodiles have gotten involved, well, why not keep the weapon, you went through a lot of trouble to find it after all"

[noble grove]

There’s so many possibilities when it comes to multimounts but the one I’d really like to see is based on this video,it depicts a leopard chasing a vervet monkey doing a 360!!! and then eating it,perhaps EW could add fake trees to the current lodges to really make this work.

[sinful wren]

"Monkey Around"

[noble grove]

☝️☝️☝️ It could have a mixture of failed and successful hunts,just before the Vervet Monkey runs up the tree,the leopard eating the monkey on the ground or in the tree.It would easily become one of my favorite multimounts in the game.

[sinful wren]

I'd love that, like 3 monkeys and the leopard with two monkeys in the tree screeching at the leopard standing over the third monkey?

[noble grove]

If we are to get an Africa 2.0 map I’d like to see more than the usual amount we get per reserve,perhaps two a species?

[sinful wren]

Honestly, I'd like it if mounts weren't gendered I've got a mela blacktail and cougar that would look great together but the genders don't match up with the mount

[noble grove]

And interchangeability (for similar species)

[sinful wren]

Please. I'd love to do a huddle with WT, BT, and Mule deer

[pulsar cradle]

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[wind sorrel]

Biggest killers in Africa, more people die from hippo attacks than any other mammals

[sinful wren]

I just posted a rifle idea that I tagged your post in, just letting you know #1201613542852395099

[noble grove]

It looks fantastic!

[noble grove]

Here’s some multimounts I drafted up.
“Battle of the Giants”
{Two Hippopotamus-Male}

“This river isn’t big enough for the two of us”
{One Nile Crocodile male,one Hippopotamus male}

“ITS A TRAP!!!”
{One male African Leopard,3 M/F Vervet Monkeys}

“Make way for the parade!”
{Three M/F Elephants}

[wind sorrel]

Like these!

[agile moon]

Bump

[eternal sable]

Probably would have to do a new trophy lodge for the last mount alone……it would not be able to fit on any of the mounts in the current game most likely.

[eternal sable]

New Lodge with this reserve👀

[noble grove]

Not necessarily, especially if they were to combine the 4 or so mounts into the main room to one big mount.