The number below is not an estimate from an old brochure — it is the live listed trophy-fee position for gemsbok (oryx) across farms on Safari Hunts, and it updates automatically as outfitters adjust their price lists.
Live trophy-fee range across 4 active Safari Hunts listings — updates automatically as farms change their prices.
Add the trophy fee to your daily-rate block: rate × nights × hunters. Gemsbok (Oryx) hunts sit comfortably inside a standard 5–7 night safari, and the species pairs naturally with other plains game to spread the daily-rate cost across several trophies. Deposits on Safari Hunts are 50% into escrow, balance 90 days before arrival, trophy fees settled at the farm for animals taken.
The gemsbok is the desert made animal: rapier horns, a painted face, and the ability to live where there is no surface water at all. In the Kalahari and across Namibia's gravel plains, gemsbok hunts are long-glass affairs — spotting a herd two kilometres out, using dunes and camelthorn lines for cover, and making a confident shot in wide-open country. It is the signature hunt of arid Africa and a spectacular shoulder mount.
Full species guide: Gemsbok (Oryx) hunting · all prices: African safari costs.