A dream, a bow, and a Cape buffalo
It's hard to know where to begin this story. I guess I should start with WOW!.... What an amazing experience! It was everything I hoped it would be and more, yet it was nothing like I expected at least in terms of how the hunt would go down. The main focus of this...
A Dream, a Bow, and a Cape buffalo
South Africa: April 2017 By Dan Leahy No hides, no tree stands, no waterholes, and no food sources... Open ground, cutting tracks and stalking in. I wanted a Cape buffalo, hunted spot and stalk with a bow, and I wanted to do it my way. My chances of success would be...
One Lucky Lady
South Africa: 2007 By Wade Gear She heard the truck that first day. It seemed to crisscross through her home range, and although it was a constant droning sound it did not affect her rest under the shade of the mopane trees. Her home range was surrounded by thick...
The Gift of Africa…Wrapped in a Simple Email
South Africa: 2014 By Lavon Winkler The Dark Continent - a mystical land for many, and especially for hunters, young and old. The simple word, “Africa” conjours the magic and mystery embodied in the great writings of Hemingway, Roosevelt, Chapman, and Capstick. This...
Roan Antelope, a Twenty-Year Dream
Burkin Faso: 2015 Roan Antelope, a Twenty-Year Dream by Kim Stuart A splay-legged giraffe sipped from the coffee-colored waterhole. A scrappy band of baboons harassed each other in between quick drinks of water. Then, as if choreographed by an African documentary...
Two Thousand Leopards Later
Mozambique: 2009 Two Thousand Leopards Later… By Bob Adkins I’ve “shot” over 2,000 leopards in the recent past, but the one I was presently watching was about to escape. This particular leopard was in Mozambique. Specifically, it was in Simon Rodger’s Safaris de...
Burkina Buffalo Magic
Burkina Faso: 2017 Burkina Buffalo Magic By Glaeser Conradie from African Echo Safaris The sun was not out yet, but there was just enough light to notice the small herd of buffalo moving slowly across the broken savannah about 500 metres to our right. The Sahara winds...
Burkina “Fiasco” Safari
By Ernest Dyason What a fiasco! That was the first thing that went through my mind when I arrived in Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso, on Flight 548 from Paris. This adventure started after a safari in Benin with one of my old friends and hunting client, Dick. We...
The Sum of the Parts.
The Sum of the Parts. By Zig Mackintosh According to the anti-hunting lobby, hunters do nothing for wildlife conservation. Even when irrefutable proof that controlled, sustainable hunting is an effective conservation tool is shoved under their noses, it’s dismissed as...
An Arrow, a Bow, and a Nyala Bull
South Africa: 2016 An Arrow, a Bow, and a Nyala Bull by Frank Berbuir It is August 2016, and the South African wintertime, but the sun is shining warm and bright this morning when we pack our stuff in the bakkie, getting ready to head northwards to the impressive...
Mbogo and the greeks
One for the Road, AHG 23.1 Wieland It’s tempting to change the names in this piece to protect the guilty, but instead we’ll just go with Christian names and let the reader speculate. It all happened a long time ago — almost a quarter century — and those involved are...
Ilse ARTIST 2018 certainly kicked off on a high note for meproofed
It was a high note for me, early 2017. It was my first visit to Dallas, Texas and I was also going to exhibit at the Dallas Safari Club Convention held annually at the Kay Bailey Hutchison Convention Centre. My booth was next to the African Hunting Gazette’s, and...
Leopard
We were lucky enough to secure a tag on a property in the northern part of Limpopo Province, South Africa, a beautiful, picturesque area with scattered boulders and granite outcrops – a leopard’s paradise. Our animal was taken near the town of Mussina. I had been...
Checking Out the Most Thrilling Hunting Spots in Africa
Some people hunt for sport, some hunt to relax, and some hunt for food. But there are others who hunt for the thrill and the sense of danger that comes with being out in the wild among some of the world’s most exotic and ferocious creatures. For this type of hunting,...
Bowhunting – An Acquired Taste on the African Plains
It’s not unusual for a hunter to open the lock box on his bakkie and pull out a Winchester M-70 as he prepares for the hunt. When it comes to crossbows, this is another matter entirely. Despite the personal preferences of hunters in Africa, crossbow hunting is a...
US Customs CBP Form 4457 UPDATE
After many hours of negotiation and deliberation with the organisations in the USA , mainly Mr John Fraser from the National Rifle Association who tirelessly helped and answered questions , submitted clarifications the Central Firearms Register and Commander of the...
Brooke’s Life of the Wife of the PH
Brooke’s Life of the Wife of the PH A Mission Whose Mission is to Disappear By Brooke ChilversLubin In June 1986, in the Central African Republic, I followed PH Rudy Lubin for the first time from the dry season savanna to the rainy season forest. Now that the...
Namibian Blesbok – with bow and arrow
Namibian Blesbok - with bow and arrow By Frank Berbuir It was mid-afternoon on a wonderful sunny African day in November when I climbed up the tamboti tree to my tree seat. I watched all the action below - some ostriches strolling to the nearby waterhole, a...
One For The Road
Back Page Column 22.2 Wieland August 13, 2016 ONE FOR THE ROAD THE FOREST, THE TREES, AND MISSING THE BOAT A couple of years ago, I was part of a group pheasant hunting in North Dakota. As with many of these gatherings, it was an eclectic crowd of writers, cameramen,...
Tuskless Cow
Zimbabwe: 2013 Hunting the Tuskless Cow By Dawie Bezuidenhout Elephant hunting has many facets... Hunting elephant bulls with good ivory is a tough, but rewarding hunt that certainly tests your skills in endurance and perseverance. But the excitement of hunting...
First African Safari
South Africa: 2015 First African Safari – Hunting with Dirk By Michael G. Mathis I landed in Johannesburg with my son Michael G. Mathis Jr after an uneventful flight, and after a three-hour wait in Customs, we boarded the plane to Port Elizabeth. As we’d had only...
My Nyala
My Nyala - the sustaining memory By William Archibald This time last year, I was diagnosed with prostate cancer. There was surgery. Clean margins, they said. Great News. I’m riding a commuter train into Philadelphia to Jefferson Hospital. It’s a routine follow-up, and...
The Last of the Best
Zimbabwe: 2015 THE LAST OF THE BEST Kyle Ball MD It couldn’t have been a more perfect setup: 10.35 a.m. Mid-July. Zimbabwe’s famed Zambezi Valley. Hurungwe Hunting Block. Already that morning we had spotted, approached and passed on three other elephant bulls, but now...
Leopard Magnet
Zimbabwe: 2011 - 2012 The “Leopard Magnet” By Richard Brebner Within 10 days we had three leopard sightings in broad daylight. I had never experienced anything like this, as normally in an area where they are hunted, the big cats are far more secretive and you seldom...
Aman Leopard?
Client surname is Aman. This means: Peaceful place. Aman Leopard? 2:30. The alarm startled me out of the few hours of slumber I allowed myself. Nights were short during summer hunting. 30 minutes to prepare and then leave for the blind. 3:00 the cruisers L.E.D....
Stalking the Shadows
Stalking the Shadows By Engee Potgieter I sat with bated breath, listening to the faint sound of waves breaking on the distant shoreline. As I settled into my chair, my bow beside me, in the dark confines of the blind, I allowed the oppressive humidity and deafening...
Rusa on Mauritius
Rusa on Mauritius By Frank Berbuir What, you might ask, can one hunt on Mauritius, the “star and key of the Indian ocean”, that lies in the southwest of the Indian Ocean, east of Madagascar, nearly 2,000 km off the African continent? Some time ago, on a hunting show...
Unparalleled Luck on Lion
Tanzania: 1990s
Unparalleled Luck on Lion
By PH Erik van Eckhardt
Early in the 1990s, I was hunting in the Moyowosi Game Reserve in western Tanzania when my Norwegian friend and client, Harold, flew into this paradise on earth, carrying a brand-new Sako Safari rifle, chambered in .375 H&H Magnum.
Clown Princes of the Veld
Namibia: 2011
Clown Princes of the Veld
By Mick Chapman
“Clown Princes of the veld” – a moniker that so befits the black wildebeest or white-tailed gnu of Africa. Characters with little inhibition, that go about their daily life, prancing over the veld, kicking up their heels, spinning, twisting, pig-rooting, dropping their heads, and charging their companions. In herds from 10 to several hundred, their playful behavior could well be a charade to mask an extremely intelligent and challenging species to hunt.
Not for the Faint-Hearted – Hunting Bushpig in the Eastern Cape
South Africa: 2014
Not for the Faint-Hearted – Hunting Bushpig in the Eastern Cape
By Kim Gattone
It was a calm, cool morning, wet with dew, the low-lying fog quickly evaporating in the rising sun.
These are perfect conditions for scent dogs and, sure enough, the strike dog Blue, was already “giving tongue” from the back of the truck before his feet ever hit the ground!
Blue is an older, three-legged bluetick hound; he’d lost that leg in a close encounter with a bushpig, and is a better dog on three legs than many are on four! Blue, leased to a houndsman, bayed the pigs in their nest. Unfortunately, the pigs “broke their nerve” quickly and scattered rather than holding up.