Letter of thanks from the winner of the Rigby rifle
Good afternoon Richard, I am still in shock! I want to thank you, AHG, Maria Gill at J Rigby & Co. in London, Kevin with Blaser USA in Texas, and Jim Morical at C&J industries in Nevada, Iowa for making this happen. I have my new rifle in my...
African Hunting Gazette Monthly – Feb 2022
Amanzi,* Our life blood Toto’s song Africa - ‘I bless the rains down in Africa’ - celebrates and gives thanks for life-giving rain. Some say the song is about starting out, cleansing, getting away from technology. And where better than on an African...
Gorongosa had a tough but positive year in 2021
The story of Gorongosa National Park in Mozambique is one of the mos remarkable conservation success stories in Africa, if not the world. The Park was virtually destroyed during the dreadful civil war which wracked the country for 15 years from 1977 to 1992, during...
Stuck in the Mud
Written by Ricardo Leone Our 2019 safari had a vastly different feel for me – it was my first since I had officially retired from fulltime employment. I had worked for 38 years straight, and our first day in Zambia was just two months after I retired, and being back...
Campfire Thoughts & Reminiscences
Written by Neil Harmse Over many years I have written articles and short stories for various magazines and publications, most based on personal hunting experiences, and some articles hopefully of interest on firearms, ammunition and equipment. A number of...
Classic and Contemporary African Hunting Literature
Spiral-Horn Dreams – Terry Wieland (Trophy Room Books, 1995, 344 pages.) Review by Ken Bailey I suppose there’s a certain irony in that finding a copy of Spiral-Horn Dreams is as challenging and frustrating as it can be to hunt the very animals that Wieland...
Looking at Kenya
Written by Ian Batchelor I was born in Kenya in 1965, a turbulent time in this part of Africa with the uneasy onset of the “winds of change” sweeping the continent, with all sorts of upheaval and uncertainty. Very few countries in Africa escaped this; some...
Second Generation Hunt
Written by Darby Wright We had booked another full bag safari for 2021 with Simon and Kate Rodger's Safaris de Moçambique. This concession borders Lake Cahora Bassa in Mozambique. My 27-year-old daughter would be the shooter, and her PH would be Brian Ellement, son of...
January 2022 Newsletter
The great migration… To the Conventions… January is the start of what many refer to as Convention Season. The time to wave the African hunting flag. Long flights, many shows, house parties, fund-raiser events and, of course, the major expos – the two big ones being...
Richard Leakey (1944-2022) – Conservation Hero or Zero?
One of Africa's most colourful conservation personalities passed away on 2 January 2022 having lived a full life: "But what a life he had: in a career spanning more than half a century Leakey transformed himself from a fossil hunter, who became a bestselling author...
Classic African Hunting Literature: Chui!: A Guide to Hunting the African Leopard
Written by Lou Hallamore and Bruce Woods (Trophy Room Books, 2011, 238 pages.) Review by Ken Bailey With few exceptions, African literature has generally been intended to allow the reader to live vicariously through the words and experiences of the author. As readers...
On Safari in Africa with Charles Price
I was born in Queenstown in 1967 and grew up on the farm, Bowers Hope, in the Tarkastad district. My father, Murray Price, pioneered the hunting business in the Eastern Cape, with the first clients arriving in 1963. As children we were to be seen and not heard, so we...
Some Year-end Thoughts
In my role as an editor and a writer, I get to read many interesting things, and some of them are so good that they need to be shared with others. Such is the case with a wonderful essay called 'This Land of the Ligers'. Kartik Shanker is an evolutionary...
When it is meant to be!
By Thierry Labat Zimbabwe: 2019 Chris and Bob from Montana have hunted with me on many occasions and we’ve always done pretty well as a team. They are the nicest people, so when Chris contacted me for a possible late season double buffalo and plains-game hunt, “of...
Mayo Oldiri News
We started to hunting the Savannah again in January and actually it was only July that we finished our forest season – with the same (and in some cases, better) level of success as always. We saw to it that our areas were not abandoned during the pandemic. And...
Book review: African Hunter II
Book edited by Craig T. Boddington and Peter Flack (Safari Press, 2004, 606 pages); Review by Ken Bailey When James Mellon’s book African Hunter was published in 1975, it was hailed immediately as a classic, a thorough and contemporary guide to hunting Africa. But, in...
Recent trophies from Mokore Safaris
The Mokore Safaris 2021 Season – bringing you a glimpse into the world we offer you, when on safari with our family operation. ZIMBABWE TROPHIES ON SAFARI IN ZIMBABWE MOZAMBIQUE TROPHIES ON SAFARI IN MOZAMBIQUE
Taxidermist profile: Hunters Heart Taxidermy
Contact: (Owner/Manager): Ruan Viljoen Physical Address: 2 Nywerheid Avenue, Kuruman, 8460 Tel Office: +27 72 057 1235 Mobile: +27 72 057 1235 info@huntersheart.africa www.huntersheart.africa/home Tell us a little about your operation How it started &...
November newsletter
Enough telling…. Consider two statements you could hear from your potential outfitter: Our area has the conditions to produce large kudu; andOur clients shot three kudu, over 55 inches last year. The first encourages thoughts on how to find them and the enjoyment of...
Taxidermist profile – Frank Zitz
Taxidermy is my life I got into the industry when I was quite young as I had worked for a furrier when I was just a boy. I had always been interested in taxidermied animals, and first started when I used a mail order from the back of a hunting magazine for a...
Book review – Horn of the Hunter
By Ken Bailey An admitted novice big game hunter, Robert Ruark went on an African safari for the first time ostensibly on medical orders; his doctor advised that a year’s rest would serve him well and Ruark decided that recommendation would be the impetus to...
An encounter with black-backed jackals
By Frank Berbuir It is 4 o´clock this morning when my alarm clock jolts me out of my sleep, my dreams, and makes me aware to get up, take a shower, and slip into my Sniper Africa Camo clothes. Outside it is still dark, quite and peaceful when I close the door of my...
Respect
By Martin Pieters The dust swirled in the midday heat of the Zambezi Valley, as we lay motionless behind a small outcrop of black rock that reflected its heat towards us. Shade was sparse apart from a clump of green about 15 meters ahead. This was directly in line of...
Worried About Environmental Impact of Air Travel?
You have probably heard some environmental activists going on about how air travel is 'bad' because it might cause global warming? And were you starting to think that perhaps your trip to Africa to hunt on the great continent was a bit of a naughty thing to do? Forget...
Fourth leopard at 80
By Peter Feuerle The leopard cannot be seen if he does not want to be seen, and that makes hunting him the perfect hunt. If you want a realistic chance to shoot a leopard, you must make him come to you, which means hunting over bait, or following a pack of hounds. An...
Return to Namibia’s Otjozondjupa District
By Rick Hobert at ElandPro Safaris It’s 31 May 2021, about 2.30 a.m. somewhere over the north Atlantic bound for Frankfurt, Germany on the first leg of my trip. I’m sitting here wide awake and can’t sleep. I started thinking about what had led me to this point in...
October newsletter
Trophy Shipping - Know your Facts With the sun setting slowing on this year’s African season which, by all accounts, has been just what we needed, attention moves to the trophies. How is the processing and mounting getting along? Then, it’s getting them shipped back...
Hunter Profile: Archie Landals
I was born in Edmonton, Alberta Canada in 1945. I guess that makes me a city kid, but we were never far from the country. Although Edmonton is home to almost 1.5 million people today, it was only 100,000 when I was growing up. When walking out the back door we were...
Taxidermist Feature: Marakalalo
Company Name: Krugertaxidermy t/a Marakalalo (Pty) Ltd. Contact: (Owner/Manage) Kruger Human Physical Address: 21 Stormavenue, Bainsvlei, Bloemfontein, Free State Province, South Africa Tel Office: +27 (0) 649382563 Mobile: +27 (0)834478132 Contact Email:...
International Vulture Awareness Day 4 September 2021
Vultures are an ecologically vital group of birds that face a range of threats in many areas where they occur. Populations of many species are under pressure, and some species are facing extinction. The 'IVAD' has grown from awareness days run by the Endangered...