Campfire Thoughts & Reminiscences Part 21
Written by Neil Harmse Chapter 22. Useful Equipment for Shotgunners The long-awaited day has finally arrived. You have your licence for your new shotgun and have collected it from the gun shop – and the season is open! You cannot wait to get out...
Classic and Contemporary African Hunting Literature
Ask the Namibian Guides Diana Rupp, (Safari Press, 2013, 182 pages.) Reviewed by Ken Bailey Long-time Sports Afield editor Diana Rupp first hunted Africa in 2003, a plains game hunt in Namibia. Captured, as so many of us are, by Africa’s magic, she’s gone back...
Campfire Thoughts & Reminiscences Part 20
Written by Neil Harmse Chapter 21. Shotgun Cartridges and Their Development Over the Years Today most wing and clay target-shooters using modern shot cartridges show very little interest in the ammunition they use, apart from what they feel is...
Classic and Contemporary African Hunting Literature
A Game Ranger’s Note Book Arthur (A.) Blayney Percival, (Whitefriar’s Press, Ltd., 1924, 372 pages.) Reviewed by Ken Bailey Arthur (A.) Blayney Percival (1875 – 1941) arrived in British East Africa in 1900 from Arabia, where he had been in charge of a British...
Campfire Thoughts & Reminiscences Part 19
Written by Neil Harmse Chapter 20. Understanding The Shotgun New shooters being introduced to the shotgunning sport may find the many terms and techniques rather confusing, with words like ‘load’, ‘bore’, ‘gauge’, ‘choke’ and others bandied...
The Beauty of Beadwork: Turning Waste Into Art
For the past six years, Carmen Rudman has been creating intricate works of art on mostly, South African wildlife skulls. Living on their family ranch, Blaauwkrantz, in the Eastern Cape of South Africa, a well-known hunting destination, and with her background...
Formula: AHG + John Rigby = One Very Happy Hunter
Dear John Rigby Co. and Maria, I wanted to write and tell you how thankful I am to own a John Rigby 416 rifle. It arrived last Wednesday!!! Your company and willingness to participate in the African Hunting Gazette drawing with the prize of a 416 is just...
Classic and Contemporary African Hunting Literature
Death in the Dark Continent Peter Hathaway Capstick (St. Martin’s Press, 1983, 238 pages.) Reviewed by Ken Bailey There’s probably no modern author of African hunting adventures that has captured audience appeal like Peter Capstick has. After a short career as a...
Wato – The Book
By Brian Watson Wato - The Book is a beautiful 324 page hard cover compilation of some of Wato's hunting adventures in wild Africa and other wilderness places. The book can be purchased here: https://watosbook.square.site/ To give you a taste of what's in store...
Youth Hunting:A Smart Parent’s Guide to Safely Hunting with Kids
Sponsored by Ammo.com It's a pivotal time for the sport of hunting, especially among America's youth. Due to urbanization, endless activities for children, and the constant humming draw of electronics, kids are getting less exposure to the outdoors and showing...
Campfire Thoughts & Reminiscences Part 18
Written by Neil Harmse Chapter 18. The Slug Gun As I approached my mid-60s, I decided I would ‘retire’ from game hunting and concentrate on wingshooting. I have a passion for vintage and well-made side-by-side shotguns, and it gives me great...
Classic and Contemporary African Hunting Literature
The Short Happy Life of Francis Macomber Ernest Hemingway (Cosmopolitan, 1936.) Reviewed by Ken Bailey The Short Happy Life of Francis Macomber, a short story by Ernest Hemingway set in Africa, was originally published in the September 1936 issue...
African Response to UK’s Proposed Hunting Trophy Ban
On 17 March 2023 a Private Member’s Bill to ban the import of hunting trophies into the UK passed its third reading in Parliament. It was approved by MPs after this reading, but required further scrutiny in the House of Lords before being passed into law. A strong...
Wildlife Artist: Zoltan Boros
Zoltan Boros was born in Szabadka, Hungary in 1976. Nature and animals fascinated him since his early childhood. Zoltan began drawing at a young age, developing his talent by drawing the local wildlife. Later, he began to paint with oils and watercolors and continued...
Black Wildebeest
Written by Tom Murphy The Black wildebeest (Connochaetes gnou) is sometimes referred to as the white-tailed gnu. Its average weight runs between 250-425 pounds. Shoulder height is four feet. Overall length 65 inches to 90 inches. The black wildebeest has a dark...
African Parks 2022 Update
The addition of Kafue National Park in Zambia, and Boma and Badingilo National Parks in South Sudan added considerably to the African Parks portfolio of land now under formal management agreements. Positive discussions with the governments of Angola and Ethiopia also...
Campfire Thoughts & Reminiscences Part 17
Written by Neil Harmse Chapter 18. Silver Shooters To quote George Bernard Shaw: ‘Youth is a wonderful thing. What a crime it is to waste it on children.’ We never consider that we are getting older, and things change… As I myself get older, I...
Classic and Contemporary African Hunting Literature
Wanderings of an Elephant Hunter W.D.M. Bell (Country Life Ltd., 1923.) Reviewed by Ken Bailey Scottish-born Walter Dalrymple Maitland Bell, best known today as Karamojo Bell, was a true Renaissance man. Best known for his hunting exploits in East Africa, he...
First Global Human-Wildlife Conflict Summit
Hundreds of representatives from conservation organisations, academia, governments, businesses and indigenous and local communities from six continents and 70 countries met for the International Conference on Human-Wildlife Conflict and Coexistence, hosted by the IUCN...
Campfire Thoughts & Reminiscences Part 16
Written by Neil Harmse Chapter 17. Why Wingshooting I think there are as many reasons hunters pursue game as there are hunters – and those who hunt feathered game are no exception. When I decided to sell off my rifles and, instead, take up my sport of...
World’s Longest Buffalo Hunt!
By Jim Thorn I hunted with Monterra Safaris in May 2021. On that hunt I had an opportunity to take a Cape buffalo that was giving them some problems. Of course, my only bad shot of the entire hunt was on this buffalo. Not nervous, not in a bad position, the...
Classic and Contemporary African Hunting Literature
Cries of the Savanna Sue Tidwell (Circle T Publishing Company, 2021, 426 pages.) Reviewed by Ken Bailey Sue Tidwell knew little about hunting in Africa or the complexities of game management, hunting ethics and human-wildlife interactions when she accompanied...
An Artistic Vision: what exactly is that in the world of taxidermy?
By Richard Lendrum I spent a couple of days in late February with Aaron and his wife Samantha in Douglasville Pennsylvania. It gave me a chance to get, first-hand, an insight as to what this gent has done over the past 19 years – and it was fascinating. Aside...
Campfire Thoughts & Reminiscences Part 15
Written by Neil Harmse Chapter 16. A Storm to Remember Living in the bush has its memorable moments, as well as its problems and dangers, but the dangers are not always from wild animals. One of the most frightening moments during my time living in the...
Classic and Contemporary African Hunting Literature
From the Cape to Kasserine: Ten Years of African Hunting 2007 - 2016 Craig Boddington (Safari Press, 2018, 324 pages.) Reviewed by Ken Bailey This is the fourth book in Craig Boddington’s series describing his African hunting adventures; he writes one every...
Are Cape Buffalo Really That Dangerous?
By Ken Moody We’ve all heard the stories. The maniacal, charging buffalo bearing down on the quivering client as our hero, the professional hunter, brings his mighty double rifle to bear, ending the chaos with a well-placed shot, or worse – getting killed in the...
A Close Encounter With A Lion
This account of a close encounter with a lion near the Limpopo River in 1845, appears to have been written by William Oswell, a former big-game hunter, three years before his death. _________________________________________________________________________________...
Campfire Thoughts & Reminiscences Part 14
Written by Neil Harmse Chapter 15. Geoff’s Lion and Baboon A good friend of mine has always had a yearning to shoot a lion. When I was involved with problem animal control, Geoff kept asking me to call him if there was an opportunity to join me and...
Jason Stone: Inch By Inch, A Trophy Hunter of 25 Years
A 67-inch kudu bull from Limpopo, South Africa.Written by Richard Lendrum Since record books started and inches measured, some believe this has been a curse on the hunting industry. For many, it is their way of distinguishing themselves, to prove something, be...
Leopard Hunt – Podcast
Caption: Rudolph Stephan, Tim and Mary Sylvester.By Richard Lendrum I was talking with Tim and Mary Sylvester when they were out on their safari and somehow the conversation turned to recalling a previous hunt they had done - a leopard in Zimbabwe almost 7...
Classic and Contemporary African Hunting Literature
Africa's Most Dangerous Kevin Robertson (Safari Press, 2007, 244 pages.) Reviewed by Ken Bailey Much of African hunting literature is of the “Me and Joe” variety, books chock-full of tales describing the hunting adventures of the author. On occasion, however,...
The Baobab Buffalo
Written by Kevin Cunningham It is almost a cliché to say that hunting Cape Buffalo is special. For me it began, curiously enough, many years ago hunting whitewing dove in Mexico with Ralf. Ralf was a successful, greying guy who loved the hunting and fishing life,...
Hunting Lord Derby Eland in Cameroon with Mayo Oldiri
On the fourth day hunting LD eland we picked up the tracks of two bulls at around 7am and followed them for about 2 hours. The droppings were shiny and moist, and we knew we were close. As we moved over a slight hill, I spotted the two bulls moving in front of us,...
Campfire Thoughts & Reminiscences Part 13
Written by Neil Harmse Chapter 14. 'The Hat’ - A Dirty, Smelly Old Friend When it comes to ‘outdoors men’ (sorry, ladies, this is a man thing!), have you ever wondered what it is that sets us apart from one another? I am particularly referring to...
Hunting the Big Little Buck
Mountain reedbuck afford a challenge hunt in the wild.By Daryl Crimp “He’s an absolute monster,” said PH Pete matter-of-factly, “and he lives on this big plateau.” ‘Big’ was an understatement. Even ‘huge’ didn’t cut it. The landscape in Eastern Cape is steroid-...
United Nations Biodiversity Conference Reaches Landmark Agreement
The Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) was opened for signature in 1992 at the Earth Summit in Rio de Janeiro and entered into force in December 1993. The CBD is an international treaty for the conservation of biodiversity, the sustainable use of the components...
Classic and Contemporary African Hunting Literature
Hunter J.A. Hunter (Harper & Brothers, Publishers, 1952, 264 pages.) Reviewed by Ken Bailey At times we have a tendency to ignore or belittle the common in favor of whatever shiny new penny comes along; judging by all the love given the new 6.5, .27 and .28...
Giant Sable Conservation in Angola
Written by Pedro Vaz Pinto This past year finally allowed us to move forward with routine activities and reach a quasi-normality state after two years of facing all sorts of constraints derived from Covid-19 related restrictions. And on the ground, the year of 2022...
Bongo Hunting
Written by Frank Zits After the Big Five (lion, leopard, rhino, elephant, and Cape buffalo), hunting forest bongo possibly rates next, or at least high, on the list of dream safaris for most African game hunters. There are two types of African bongos, the western or...
Campfire Thoughts & Reminiscences Part 11
ritten by Neil Harmse Chapter 12. Wilderness Trails My life in the bush had its moments of excitement when dealing with problem animals and I have mentioned incidents on hunts and while guiding clients on safaris. However, when I think back, one of the...
Black Death with a Crossbow
Written by Jon FossilThirty yards in front of me, two huge Cape buffalo were repeatedly goring each other in a battle to the death. We had been following these two Dagga Boys for several hours and were now only 30 yards from the two combatants with nothing but a...
Classic and Contemporary African Hunting Literature
Strange Tales from the African Bush Hannes Wessels (Safari Press, 2009, 234 pages.) Reviewed by Ken Bailey As is suggested by its title, Hannes Wessels’ Strange Tales from the African Bush is not your typical book that describing someone’s African hunting...
A Little Namibian Adventure
Written by Alan Tuck In September 2022, I hunted at Okarumuti Game Lodge, 70km outside Windhoek, Namibia. The Italian-owned and -run lodge, located almost exactly in the center of the country, has a working cattle ranch that sells hunts. On my trip, I...
Campfire Thoughts & Reminiscences Part 10
Written by Neil Harmse Chapter 11. An Expedition into Mozambique The 1980s were a busy time for conducting walking trails and I also got involved with game control operations. By way of something different, I was asked by my good friend Loot...
Elephants and Mega Wildlife
Written by Richard Lendrum It was just over 20 years since I last sat down and had dinner with Johan after his life-altering buffalo attack. Much has changed in Johan Calitz’s life since then; and what a treat to catch up and spend five whole days with this...
Hunting Mozambique with Mashambanzou
Written by Randy Pretzer I am not much of an author, but my wife and I hunted the Zambezi River area of Mozambique in 2022 and I wanted to share our story. This trip was purchased at an SCI auction as a crocodile hunt with Mashambanzou Safaris, although I was able...
Grey? It’s actually Black and White – Anti-Poaching in Cameroon
Written by Grey, head of anti-poaching at Mayo Oldiri Safaris I was hired to go to Cameroon to work for Mayo Oldiri Safaris to train people in anti-poaching. However, the biggest challenge for me was that I had basically no experience as an anti-poaching guy....
Sango Wildlife Lodge & Camp
As I write this - John Ledger is fighting for his life in an ICU at a leading hospital in Joburg. He is either about to – or has had some big heart operation to try unclogging his arteries. It will be a tough ask for any surgeon as John, by his own admission has done...
Classic and Contemporary African Hunting Literature
Facing Down Fear John Sharp (Ex Montibus Media, 2021, 336 pages.) Reviewed by Ken Bailey That bigger-than-life professional hunters are not relegated to a bygone era becomes quickly evident when reading John Sharp’s Facing Down Fear (Ex Montibus Media, 2021,...
Wato – The Book
By Brian Watson Wato - The Book is a beautiful 324 page hard cover compilation of some of Wato's hunting adventures in wild Africa and other wilderness places. The book can be purchased here: https://watosbook.square.site/ To give you a taste of what's in store...
African Conservation Awards 2022
Winners at the Game Rangers Association of Africa 2022 African Conservation Awards © GRAAAfrica’s conservation heroes were celebrated at the prestigious awards ceremony at the African Rangers Congress in Botswana on 17 September. The awards are an annual celebration...
My Hunting Journey
By Valerio Ventriglia My hunting life began in in Zambia, at a very young age. I used to go for my school holidays to Zambia, spending three months at a time. I used to pester my father to let me go with him when he went hunting, but as I was too small, I used...
Campfire Thoughts & Reminiscences Part 9
Written by Neil Harmse Chapter 10. Bad Luck Safari There are times when, no matter how carefully things are planned, nothing seems to work out as one hoped. I remember one safari to Botswana years ago which seemed to go wrong from the very...
Classic and Contemporary African Hunting Literature
Land of the Black Buffalo Paul Smiles (Faber and Faber Limited, 1961, 184 pages.) Reviewed by Ken Bailey On a comparative basis, there is very little in the way of classic hunting literature focussed on what is today’s Botswana; professional hunting wasn’t...
Ian Wilmot’s Monster Eastern Cape Kudu
By Ian Wilmot The biggest kudu we ever shot in the Eastern Cape was a 63-inch kudu, shot 3 or 4 years back. Still the biggest kudu to come out of the Eastern Cape. And it was an interesting hunt, an enjoyable hunt. The terrain is challenging. And this kudu had...
Young and Dumb, but Alive!
By Ryan Phelan of Hotfire Safaris In the early 2000s, I was running a private game reserve in the Tuli Block in Botswana. We had one particular elephant bull that was becoming a nuisance, as he was destroying our solar pumps and panels and threatening my fencing...
Nine Nights in the Selous – Authentic East Africa
By Richard Lendrum Named after the famous African hunter whose life ended here, the reserve in this East African wilderness is difficult to describe in a few hundred words, let alone do justice to. But I will try. In the heart of, and largely surrounded by the...
Silhouettes in the Mist at Lake Mburo
Abdullah in position next to the sitatunga and screaming in the mist.By Ricardo Leone I had met my friend Peter “Bwana” Chipman of Kwalata Safaris in Zambia at the Safari Show in early 2020 and made his booth my home for the three days that I explored the exhibition...
Dugga Boy! A Zambian Adventure
By Stuart Ward, February 2022 Hello and welcome to Africa. Jeannette and I are greeted warmly with smiles. Zambia is a very pleasant breezy cool in early June. The air is rich with earthy mopane smoke aromas. It’s that back woods campfire smell, only different...
Springbok Slam on a Short Timeline
By Michael W. Mills, Maricopa, AZ, USA Africa is a place that grows on you. The more I experience Africa, the more I want to return. Planning for my Africa 2022 trip started before I completed a hunt in 2021. Fast forward a year, I’m in South Africa with my...
Campfire Thoughts & Reminiscences Part 8
Written by Neil Harmse Chapter 9. Concerning Snakes One of the most frequent questions I am asked by people venturing into the bush on a trail or hunt is: ‘Do we have to worry about snakes?’ To be honest, there are snakes all over, even in suburban...
Hurry up and “Wag n Bietjie”
A Kalahari Leopard By Ryan Phelan of Hotfire Safaris Max was back! Back on his fourth adventure with Hotfire Safaris, this time in the vast Kalahari of Botswana. The quarry, a leopard. We had ten days booked to search over a million acres of Kalahari in...
African Parks to Manage Boma and Badingilo National Parks in South Sudan
Giraffes in Badingilo National Park, South Sudan © African ParksOn 25 August, 2022, the Government of the Republic of South Sudan and conservation organisation African Parks announced the signing of a ten-year renewable management agreement for Boma and Badingilo...
Classic and Contemporary African Hunting Literature
Bringing Back the Lions Mike Arnold (Mike Arnold Outdoors, 2022, 241 pages.) Reviewed by Ken Bailey Bringing Back the Lions: International Hunters, Local Tribespeople, and the Miraculous Rescue of a Doomed Ecosystem in Mozambique is a classic tale of...
Hunting buffalo in the Eastern Cape
By Ronald Blymire After having to cancel our 2020 trip we were finally headed back to South Africa. The flight from Washington DC to Johannesburg was uneventful and, as he always is, Mr X was waiting for us as we exited the baggage collection area. We collected our...
The Magical, Mystical Karoo
By Johan van Wyk I suppose we all have a favorite hunting ground, a place where the days are longer, the sun always shines, and the hills are not too steep. I grew up in what I known as Bushveld country, generally flat terrain with the odd kopje covered...
The Enduring Mauser
This take-down Rigby Mauser is bored for the .350 Rigby, once a popular cartridge, now upstagedThirty years after their first failure, Wilhelm was dead. Paul was 60 and might have quit the task. By Wayne van Zwoll Deeply pocked by the great hooves, the path narrowed...
Africa’s Forgotten Wilderness
Camp overlooking the Vovodo RiverHunting in the Central African Republic Today By Andrew Gooden “No, it’s not the Congo – it’s just a bit further north… no, rebel militia doesn’t jump out from behind every bush… yes, hunting is open there.” I find that the questions...
A Vintage Flight for Doves
By Simon K Barr Photography credit: Tweed Media South Africa is a sportsman’s dream: not only is it bursting with some of the most exciting hunting in the world, but when flying from Europe, there’s no jetlag. Less well-known are the fantastic opportunities for...
Campfire Thoughts & Reminiscences Part 7
Written by Neil Harmse Chapter 8. Concerning Rhino At one stage, when I was doing wilderness trails for the Wilderness Leadership School, I was asked to do a promotional walking trail with a group of journalists and dignitaries to help raise funds for...
Classic and Contemporary African Hunting Literature
In the Salt Lou Hallamore (Trophy Room Books, 1999, 218 pages) Reviewed by Ken Bailey It’s been said that Lou Hallamore, one of Zimbabwe’s most revered PHs, has spent more time in leopard blinds than most of us have spent in movie theaters. His knowledge about...
Wildlife Ranger Challenge 2022
Ranger with elephant, Namibia. © Marcus WestbergThe need for rangers to help in anti-poaching and anti-trafficking patrols is mounting every day, with 259 rhinos poached for their horns in the first six months of 2022 in South Africa alone, in addition to the 451 lost...
The Benefit of Doubt
By Mary Hayes During my hunting experience in South Africa, I learned a very important lesson about taking pride in what you do and to never doubt yourself. I have carried this knowledge with me since the time I had this amazing opportunity. Hoooonnnnnk…...
Mpofu! The largest of the antelope species
An eland bull is a huge, impressive animal, and hunting one is an experience you won’t soon forget. © Massaro Media GroupBy Phil Massaro My first safari was a ten-day jaunt spent on South Africa’s Orange Free State, in the semi-Karoo region not far outside of...
Zambia’s Kafue National Park now in the African Parks Portfolio
Kafue National Park, Kafue River, Zambia. Photography by Frank Weitzer and African Parks.On 1 July 2022, the Government of Zambia and conservation non-profit organisation, African Parks, announced the signing of a 20 year agreement for the Kafue National Park in a...
The Triple Deuce Safari
By Kim Stuart Two old guys, two double rifles, and two Cape buffalo each. I know, this sounds like an African wreck waiting to happen. When long-time hunting buddy Jim Gefroh and I sat down with Jacques Senekal, owner of African Maximum Safaris in the North West...
Hunter Profile of a loyal supporter – Chuck Shellhouse
I am 75 years old and have been enjoying the outdoors my entire life. I grew up on a farm in Ohio and began hunting pheasants and whitetail deer. After college I lived out west in Arizona and Colorado and got hooked on mule deer and elk. I have hunted both in Arizona,...
Afton 20 years later
In August of 2002, I first visited Afton Guesthouse in Johannesburg, SA. The place was recommended by a PH who is no longer in the industry. I was fortunate enough to stay several times during my six weeks and three-country hunt. I was able to harvest all of the...
Campfire Thoughts & Reminiscences Part 6
Written by Neil Harmse Chapter 7. Lion Problems As previously mentioned, during the 1980s the southern Kruger Park boundary was continuously faced with problems caused by lions crossing. into private properties and killing livestock. Once these nomadic...
The Night Of The Leopard
By Don Stoner The Land Cruiser rolled to a stop on the rough, hard-packed ruts my PH called a road. Then, shifting into four-wheel drive, we slowly turned onto the soft white sand of the dry river bed. Five minutes later we caught the odor of the rotting bait...
Classic and Contemporary African Hunting Literature
From the Veld – Recipes and Reflections from Namibia Danene van der Westhuyzen (Tip Africa Publishing, 2020, 242 pages) Reviewed by Ken Bailey From the Veld is more than just another cookbook. It’s part autobiography, part photo montage and part homage to the land,...
A Long, Short, Waterbuck Hunt
By Daryl Crimp My Courteney boots puffed dust in the bushveld and left distinctive tracks, the solid rubber soles offering quiet tread— silent footsteps in the dirt. I’d learned the hard way that soles designed for comfort with tiny air bubbles injected in the...
Crisis in the Cradle of Rhino Conservation
The Natal Parks Board was once upon a time one of the most effective and admired conservation organisations in the world. With its neatly dressed, disciplined and highly motivated staff, these men epitomised the popular image of the ‘Game Ranger’, and I remember as an...
On the Menu: Braaied Guineafowl Breasts Tandoori Style
Whilst tandoori ovens are in short supply, this spicy dish tastes excellent when braaied over hardwood coals. The longer the meat is left in the marinade, the greater the tenderising effect of the yogurt, and it can be overdone, with 4 hours being sufficient. ...
Campfire Thoughts & Reminiscences Part 5
Written by Neil Harmse Chapter 6. Elephant Problems During the early 1980s, I was kept rather busy with problem animals along the southern boundary of the Kruger National Park in the Malelane area. There was a serious drought in this region at the time and...
Classic and Contemporary African Hunting Literature
Pondoro: Last of the Ivory Hunters John Taylor (Simon and Schuster, Inc., 1955, 354 pages.) Reviewed by Ken Bailey It had been many years since I’d read this book when I dusted it off again last month and, truthfully, I’d forgotten what an interesting and informative...
A Long Day in Limpopo
By Ken Moody It was one of those long, tiring tracks all too common in buffalo hunting. The kind of track where you’re happy to have worn your most comfortable pair of boots and slept well the night before. You know it’s coming, it’s just a matter of when, but as...
Man vs. Antelope
By Robi Datattreya In the ultra-runner world there is the belief that humans evolved into striding bipeds that excel at long-distance running in hot conditions because we needed those skills for outrunning antelopes – the so-called persistence hunting. Losing our...
AHG Monthly May 2022
If the picture caught your attention, GOOD. Just read on. Last year Rigby offered a brand-spanking-new .416 for our Life Member Draw – (all existing and new members went into the draw). Instead of investing in advertising cash, they donated the rifle. Response was...
Review: Rigby Big Game .416
Author Scott Perkins and his latest dugga boy taken with Rigby's Big Game rifle in the long-proven 416 Rigby caliber.When I was 12, my dad took me to an Issac Walton League banquet at the Broadmoor hotel in Colorado Springs. While waiting for the banquet feast of wild...
Campfire Thoughts & Reminiscences Part 4
Written by Neil Harmse Facing charges During my bush life, I have always been very careful when dealing with animals that can hurt me, so it is not too often that I find myself in a sticky situation. Once, on a Botswana hunting concession known as...
Animal Rights Activists use Lawfare to Stop Hunting Quotas in South Africa
All around the world, the practice of turning to the courts has increasingly become a tactic used by activists of all kinds to stop practices of which they disapprove. This has been used by anti-fossil fuel activists to stop coal-fired power stations and off-shore...
Four Friends and a Safari!
Steve B. and his Nyala.By Jim HensleyIt was 16 April 2021, a day that had been in my thoughts for over 25 years. It was special because it was my last day as a detective with the Milwaukee Police Department. I was retiring, and nearly everyone was asking me, “How does...
Classic and Contemporary African Hunting Literature
White Hunters, The Golden Age of African Safaris Written by Brian Herne (Henry Holt and Company, Inc., 1999, 468 pages.) Reviewed by Ken Bailey Most popular books about hunting in Africa are first-person accounts, a “this happened to me” approach to the...
End of a Dream
Big Feet and Tusks to Match By Don Stoner Dilemma! In 2013 I had arranged a two-week safari with friends to a favorite plains-game area that also had great numbers of dangerous game. Then about six months prior to this safari, I was offered a bargain cancellation...
AHG Monthly April 2022
Serval: Something for everyone – the season in full swing Earlier this year while heading southwest of Joburg to collect a consignment of trophies to ship, I came across what was undoubtedly my finest roadkill specimen to date. The sun was just rising and the road...
Hunting for a Trophy Nyala Bull with Monkane Safaris
By Darrell Sterling I was back in the Limpopo province hunting with Monkane Safari owned and operated by Kereneels Verjon. It was my first day on what would turn out to be a marvelous safari filled with high drama and lots of surprises. The kick-start of the...
Terry Mathews’s Elephant – a Football Icon
By Brooke Chilvers You haven’t lived if you haven’t been to a Durty Nelly’s Irish Pub sing-along in the company of Africa’s PHs (professional hunters). “Back in the days,” the biennial Game Conservation International convention (a.k.a. GAMECOIN) in San...
Artistic Visions Wildlife
Company Name: Artistic Visions Wildlife - World Class Taxidermy Contact: (Owner/Manager) - Aaron Simser Physical Address: 187 Worman Road, Douglassville Pennsylvania 19518 - USA Tel Mobile: +1 484-269-7406 Email: info@artisticvisionswildlife.com...
On the Menu: Curried Stir Fried Guineafowl
I often use this recipe when out hunting. It is simple and quick, very tasty and can be served as a starter on toasted bread, or if you have enough birds, as the main meal together with a salad. The most time consuming part of this recipe is removing the breasts,...