Guileless Guinea Fowl? Not a Chance!
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Flushing Africa…
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ENDINGS AND BEGINNINGS
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NEW SHOTSHELLS FROM NAMIBIA…NOW
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THE MOYOWOSI MAULER
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After 16 months, we have the following updates.
After a 16 months, we have the following updates. We have implemented NightsBridge, the leading hospitality booking software for guest houses, to improve and offer seamless online reservations Elize, (coincidently a similar name of the previous owner J) has immense...
Ludo Wurfbain’s Letter to Richard
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]Dear Richard, I have just read “Give an Inch” in the summer 2018 issue of African Hunting Gazette. I agree with your disdain for those who “chase the inch,” but Rowland Ward’s Records of Big Game is not a book for inch-chasers. I...
Response to the Editorial
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]Response to the Editorial Was to me a very accurate assessment of the present issues surrounding the hunting of lions that are not born and raised in the wild. As a biomedical research scientist, I have always tried to read and...
Forest Elephant
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]Forest Elephant Based on Chris and Mathilde Stuart’s book, "Game Animals of the World," published by African Hunting Gazette, here’s everything hunters need to know about the Forest Elephant English: Forest elephant Latin: Loxodonta...
Out Of Africa: The Best Boot Company You’ve Never Heard Of
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]The global footwear market is estimated to grow to $426 billion by 2022. The boot and shoe industry is growing at 6.2% annually and is experiencing one of the longest and most profitable periods in the history of the footwear market....
Uganda 2018
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]Uganda 2018 By Jofie Lamprecht As I descended through the clouds to land in Nairobi, I finally understood why Ernest Hemingway called his famous book The Green Hills of Africa. The swelling and shifting cumulonimbus clouds floated...
A Namibian Eland – a father daughter hunt
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]Namibia: 2017 A Namibian Eland – a father daughter hunt By Sydney Pendergast At the age of thirteen I killed my first elk. That cold November morning, which I remember clearly, began a new, lifelong love for hunting and the outdoors,...
On the Spoor of the Spiral-horned Kudu
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]Zimbabwe: 2016 On the Spoor of the Spiral-horned Kudu By Simon K Barr If I were going to take a shot at the kudu we’d been tracking all day, it would have to be now. And it was going to be like threading a needle. There was no way of...
Is Southern Africa the New Argentina?
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]Is Southern Africa the New Argentina? By Ken Bailey For years, dedicated dove and pigeon hunters seeking high-volume shooting opportunities have descended annually en masse to Argentina. Just uttering the word “Córdoba” brings...
Crouching Lion, Hidden Hunters…
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]Crouching Lion, Hidden Hunters… By Thomas Newcomb I had always heard that you are never afraid when a lion charged you! It happens so fast, you react instinctively and won't have time to get nervous. I had been charged by several...
Free-Range Hunting in the Eastern Cape
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]Free-Range Hunting in the Eastern Cape By Vanessa Harrop You never know what kind of hidden gem you will find, until you expand your horizons. TJ and I had already experienced and enjoyed several typical plains game safaris, but we...
Warthogs Not Just Any Pig
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]Warthogs – Not Just Any Pig By Archie Landals Our magical first trip to Africa was in September 2011. My wife Carole and I were on a two-week photo safari of Namibia. The attractions were spectacular, from the iconic red sand dunes...
A Tailgate and a Trip
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]A Tailgate and a Trip By Matt Shaw “There’s your cat! You will have to try him from here. He will be sitting facing us. Just put the crosshairs on his eyes,” whispered my PH Garth. We had been out night hunting for the last two and a...
Mesengesi Croc
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]Mesengesi Croc By Darby Wright The Mesengesi River is a tributary of the mighty Zambezi River that runs from Angola, between Zambia and Zimbabwe and across Mozambique and empties into the azure Indian Ocean. This river is literally...
Off the Beaten Track in Zimbabwe
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text] Off the Beaten Track in Zimbabwe – a father-son quest for plains game and Cape buffalo By Alexander Richter As dusk was falling on the dry savannah, I steadied my breathing and prepared myself for the shot. From the tall grass, his...
African Vultures Threatened by Lead Poisoning
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]African Vultures Threatened by Lead Poisoning By Dr John Ledger Internationally, concern has for a long time been expressed about the toxicity of lead from cartridges and bullets used for hunting birds and mammals; studies have...
A River Record
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]South Africa: 2016 A River Record By Thomas Lindy Nissen Hunting bushbuck in its original habitat is one type of hunt. Thomas Nissen followed Jens Kjaer Knudsen in the search for a record bushbuck on the banks of the Limpopo River...
A true man of the bush – with a wife to match!
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]PH Almayne Hughes: A true man of the bush - with a wife to match! African Hunting Gazette: Tell us when and where were you born, and about your family. Almayne Hughes: I was born in Klerksdorp in 1989, but grew up in Centurion...
HOMAGE TO THE ANCESTORS
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]HOMAGE TO THE ANCESTORS Johan van Wyk I don’t think too many people will disagree if I make the statement that cartridges such as the .30-06 and .375 H&H Magnum came to be accepted over the years as industry standards. They are...
3rd International African Hunting Survey
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Barry the Hippo
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]By L. Barbee Ponder IV I’m in Southern Africa for a month on business with meetings scheduled further apart than I otherwise would like. So how should I spend a three-day weekend? At the hotel bar in JNB? Nope. I have always wanted...
Dying for a buffalo
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]It was a crisp autumn morning. I was overlooking the river, having coffee, when the Facebook message stunned me… Not six weeks previously I had spent a night in the Makuya Game Reserve, a community-owned reserve bordering Kruger...
LONG AND TOUGH
LONG AND TOUGH Over the last century, too many writers have used Walter Dalrymple Maitland “Karamojo” Bell as an example of how big, big game can be successfully hunted with light, light rifles. Bell undoubtedly did take thousands of elephants with rifles like the...
Has Kenya Finally Seen the Light?
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]Has Kenya Finally Seen the Light? There must have been collective panic among the animal rights groups over the weekend of 24 March, 2018. Kenya’s Ministry of Tourism and Wildlife announced that they would be setting up a task force...
The Garmin Xero™ A1 and Xero™ A1i bow sights
The Garmin Xero™ A1 and Xero™ A1i bow sights. Know the range and shoot the exact pin with minimal movement using the Garmin Xero™ A1 and Xero™ A1i bow sights. It’s the first bow-mounted laser range finder and targeting display system that measures the...