Philip Glass is well-known in the safari hunting fraternity. His video below goes into how he packs for trips to Africa. There is a lot of good stuff here.
I’m in the process of doing the same. While I have used packing cubes that supposedly compressed the clothing, I wish I had gone with the vacuum ones and may investigate it for future trips. I really don’t care if stuff is wrinkled as I’ll be out in the field.
I will say that every trip is different and you find ways to pack more efficiently with experience. I’m not quite there yet!

Yeah, he’s done that once or twice! Excellent point about the bags getting torn up too!