[Andrew McLaren]

Cape buffalo is surely edible. The tongue, cooked all day is deliciuos, particularly if you've been very hard at work caping and preparing the head plus working th emeat all day.

I cannot speak for all, but with my operation the hunter(s) gets offered as much of the meat of trophies harvested. Remember that game is at least a bit like domestic animals: The older the tougher the meat. And we do try to only collect trophy males well past breeding age! So it's usually fillet for frying or another part as a very well cooked and cooked and cooked stew/goulash or similar.

Just by the way giraffe seems to get tougher the longer you cook it. At least that's the mpression I got when a German client wanted a stew made from fillet of an old bull he shot. We cooked and cooked and the consistence seemed to get no better than the knobs or bolcks cut off the knobby tyres af an ATV!.

There is absolutely no way that you can take any, and I mean ANY piece of meat from Africa back to the USA. They even have sniffer dogs going through all passengers landing at Atlanta on the flights from South Africa. Foot & Mouth disease and a few other nasties is the main reason for these precautions. Please don't cheat and put the whole American meat industry at risk!

Be assured the meat is never, [Oops, never say never about Africa] well hardly ever wasted. In South Africa meat will normally be eaten by people. But in more remote hunting grounds in wilder areas, even an old buffalo carcass left unrecovered for the scavengers may be eaten by lions and hyenas, so satisfying their meat need for a day or two, and preventing them from preying on some of his younger and still breeding offspring! So meat is not "wasted".

Old Pro.