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,...
Campfire Thoughts & Reminiscences Part 3
Written by Neil Harmse Poor Man’s Double Rifle It all started when I bought a ‘slightly’ damaged AyA number 2 shotgun from a friend who had burst the one barrel near the muzzle with a bad reload. I paid R100 for it and had the gun sent off to AyA in Spain for a...
The .600 Nitro Express
An amazing collection! 16 original English .600s! The consecutive Purdey rifles are 7 and 8 from the right.History, Myth and Fact Text and photos by Cal PappasSay it slow. Say it very slow: .600 nitro express. There is something magical about those words. A...
High-tech keeps Namibia’s Desert Lions away from livestock
Namibia has a unique population of lions that have adapted to life in the Namib Desert and the Atlantic seaboard in the north-west of the country. They are a unique tourist attraction and visitors from all over the world come to see these very special predators. But...
The Kilombero Valley, Africa’s best kept secret?
By Quintin Whitehead It was a classic case of love at first sight when I first set eyes on the famed Kilombero Valley in 2019. The Kilombero North Safaris story starts a lot earlier though. It was founded in 1994 and later purchased by the current owner, Akram Aziz....
Hunting for “Blackie”
By Ernest Dyason Cameroon: 2022 Back in March of 2019, I was hunting in northern Cameroon with Mark Schroder from Houston, Texas, when on our last hunting day, while still on the hunting truck, we spotted a large herd of Lord Derby eland. Standing about 150...
Classic and Contemporary African Hunting Literature
The Man-Eaters of Tsavo and Other East African Adventures Written by Lieut. Colonel J. H. Patterson (Macmillan and Co., 1907, 352 pages.) Reviewed by Ken Bailey This is quite likely the most well-known story of African hunting and adventure. And rightfully so, as it...
AHG Monthly March 2022
March into Africa - The season is dawning Back in January 2009, we hosted the first African Hunting Expo. It was a small group of African outfitters in Toronto, Canada. These boutique shows grew across Canada – also in Atlanta, GA. Today, the model of outfitters...
News from Namibia – The GOSCARs
Wildlife conservation in Namibia is probably the best-managed in Africa, with a very strong NGO movement, community programmes and unwavering support from the government for a policy than includes sustainable use and hunting. One of the latest initiatives sees the...
Warthog Fillet with Red Peppers and Onions
By Leslie van der Merwe The ugliest pig you will ever see is a warthog. Bushpigs are not glamorous, and giant forest hogs must have myopic lovers. But a long forehead, wide mouth and jaw, facial warts and a grey leathery skin with spiky hair is not exactly...
The Twofer
By Ricardo Leone After another great Zambian Safari in 2016, we set out to try a new African country to hunt in 2017 with news species to chase after. Our friend, Richard Louw, who had recommended Hunter’s Namibia years prior suggested another Farm, this time in his...
Classic and Contemporary African Hunting Literature
From the Cape to Kasserine – Craig Boddington (Safari Press, 2018, 324 pages.) Review by Ken Bailey This is the fourth book in Craig Boddington’s series describing his African hunting adventures; he writes one every decade, but for my money this is the best...
Dangerous Game Quest
A Personal Journey By Kim Stuart Unlike the months-long safaris of the past, the opportunity to be challenged on an African safari nowadays has become a rare one. In an effort to find a demanding and unique challenge, the idea of taking the Magnificent Seven...
Campfire Thoughts & Reminiscences Part 2
Chapter 2 My First Double Rifle – A Proud Moment and Then… Having purchased and used my SAKO .375 H&H on a number of hunts, the gleam soon wore off. It was a bitch of a gun to shoot. It was far too light and kicked like a mule. The stock developed a crack...
Reborn as “Bwana”
By McKennon “Mac” Laas Certain tribes believe that a person has two births. The first occurs when one is physically born, the second when he is acknowledged as a person, reborn with purpose and direction. His mind and body is altered forever, and he has a clearer...
Among Giants
By Thierry Labat Having previously and successfully hunted with Will Parks for a Lord Derby a few years earlier, we agreed that on this our fourteenth hunt together, we would look at as many eland as possible for at least the first week and then come the second week...
The One that Didn’t Get Away
By Ken Moody It had been a hard hunt to this point. Five days into a ten-day safari, and still not a quality bull spotted. Richard, our client, was cheerful as always, never doubting that we would persevere to the end, but those of us in the know were becoming a bit...