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Hyena Hunting in Kruger – A Once-in-a-Lifetime Experience
By Alessandro Cabella  Hunting near Hoedspruit, deep in the greater Kruger area of South Africa, offers something that few places on Earth can match: untamed wilderness, raw unpredictability, and adrenaline-charged encounters with some of the world’s most elusive...
In The Blood
By Ken Moody There are myriad things that I love about Africa, but the one thing that I have a near obsession with is Cape Buffalo hunting. Yes, that old, ornery fella who would just as soon snap your neck as eat a bite has caused me many nervous moments. I...
Into The Thorns
Chapter Eight Panthera Pardus I cannot imagine that there has been as much confusion in early attempts at categorizing an animal as there appears to have been with the leopard! Body sizes, tail lengths and colouration have all been issued as “proof" of...
Fascinating Fifties
A .505 Gibbs, built on a Granite Mountain magnum Mauser action. The action and the .505 Gibbs seem made for each other, probably because they actually were, way back when.By Terry Wieland In 1972, up on the Tana River in Kenya, I ran into a white hunter by the...
Among The Masai
By Terry Wieland Many and curious are the tales about the Masai that permeate the hunting literature of East Africa. The Masai are, at one and the same time, the most recognizable of all African tribes, yet — by most outsiders — the least understood. ...
Fire Power
By Ken Moody Now that you’ve decided to hunt this menacing beast [the cape buffalo], let’s discuss what you’ll need to do the deed. There are scores of calibers and types of rifles one can use to cleanly dispatch a Cape Buffalo; single shots, bolt actions,...
Wildlife Photographer: Cynthie Fisher
I was raised in downtown Denver, Colorado, with loving, fairly normal parents, who were a bit flummoxed with my preoccupation with all things animal. After college, I never lived anywhere that wasn’t out in the countryside, surrounded by wild lands and creatures. As...
Summer, Sun & Safari – My First Trip to South Africa
By Zeke Vibrant reds, oranges, and yellows. The black silhouettes of the acacia trees and giraffes. Perfect Lion King sunsets. One of the best experiences of my life was on my first trip to South Africa. Â It all started a few years ago, when my dad suddenly...
Into The Thorns
Chapter Seven A Koppie Called Kevin Via a South African operator, we received an enquiry from a hunter from North Dakota named Ralph Kieley. Ralph mentioned that he had been on nine safaris for leopard and not even seen one. Once we had met Ralph it...
Elephant Impacts on Trees in the Pafuri Region of the KNP
By Richard Sowry. Edited by John Ledger In the riverine forest of Pafuri there is not a single top canopy tree that is not scarred by elephant. Most of these trees are in the process of dying, and the rest are barely coping. The only species of top canopy tree...
There’s More To a DGR Than Sheer Power
Custom rifle built on an FN Supreme action. Chambered for the .450 Ackley (ballistically identical to the .458 Lott), rifles in this caliber range lend themselves well to scopes with detachable mounts. Combined with the wide range of loading options, there is no...
Black and Gold Adventure
By Jim Thorn Just got back from a hunt with PH's Ross Hare and Johnathan Rademeyer at Monterra Safaris. The goal was to complete the Black/Gold package, and I had the surprise of being able to complete the spiral horn slam, along with a couple of other extraordinary...
Big-Bore Madness
Wieland at the Holland & Holland shooting ground in 2009, firing a 4-bore H&H ‘Royal’ then under construction for an American client.This article first appeared in Shooting Times in 2019 By Terry Wieland In 1991, Michael McIntosh...
Facts on the Collared Lion
Let’s look at the facts  There are certainly challenges and tough realities in the world of wildlife management, but facts are important in understanding the situation. When it comes to lions, even more so.  ‘Blondie’ was the name given to a collared lion that was...
A Zimbabwean Buffalo Hunt
By Roger Moore  It was the first day in a 10-day safari in early September 2009. My youngest son and I were in Zimbabwe to hunt Cape buffalo and plains game. It was Jordan’s first safari and my first hunt for dangerous game. Jordan took a very large Cape eland...
Into The Thorns
Chapter Six Baiting If you have ever sat around a group of bass fishermen after a long day on the water and listened to their numerous theories, and if you’ve heard all about the merits of the ‘fuzzy’ or ‘purple oil worm’, then you will know what it is like to...
Into The Thorns
Chapter Five In The Blind In 1981, my first season as a professional hunter, I was based on a forty thousand acre cattle ranch between Tsholotsho and Nyamandhlovu. I did not know one other person in Bulawayo who was a professional hunter. Of course there must...
A Matter of Stripes
By Craig Boddington  The zebra is Africa…but it’s not that simple!  The zebra is Africa’s most recognizable animal, requiring no description. Although related to both horses and asses and of the same Equus genera, the zebra is indigenous only on the African...
Archery And Bowhunting – Why I Like It
With 5000 Broadheads to choose from, I chose to design and have mine made by a master knifemaker. These were all designed to take down hippo, elephant and rhino. All were tested on big game and all worked perfectly, though the far left one was never used. The middle...
Ten Years After Cecil the Lion’s Death, Let’s Mourn Human Victims of Wildlife Attacks
By Ed Stoddard and Adam Hart This article was first published on the Daily Maverick on 2 July 2025 Instead of mourning the animals killed by trophy hunters – which in many ways owe their existence, like it or not, to the hunting industry – we would...