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One for the Road
By Terry Wieland Lions, Kittens, and Cats A first encounter with a wild lion is a life-changing event. It may not seem like much at the time. Both of you may walk away unscathed. But I defy anyone to eradicate the memory. It stays with you until you...
My Lord Derby Eland Hunt
By Dennis Schumacher The group of eland were clustered behind a grove of trees deep in the bush of northern Cameroon, thirty sets of eyes arrayed in a circle looking outward for any perceived threat. I swatted at the mopane bees circling my face and diving into...
Prepare To Repel Boarders!
The Little Thug is remarkably comfortable to shoot, with negligible muzzle jump, but puts forth a hard-hitting charge and a choking cloud of smoke that can be very handy in a defense situation.By Terry Wieland It’s an unassailable fact that the best-laid...
Wildlife Artist: Justin Prigmore
Shaped by the Wild Born in Wales and now long settled in the Highlands of Scotland, the artist’s journey into wildlife art has been shaped as much by geography as by curiosity. Art was always a quiet constant in Justin Prigmore’s life, but it wasn’t until a...
Into The Thorns
Chapter Twelve The Hunting of Leopards A Conservation Perspective Not enough is known about the leopard. Even though he is the most widely distributed member of the “big” cats, not many detailed studies of this fascinating animal have been completed....
Double Trouble
By Ken Moody ‘To take this old man into those reeds after those buffalo is a bad plan.’ I can still hear those words as clearly today as when they were first uttered so many months ago when my accompanying Zulu PH on this hunt, Musa, explained his trepidation...
The One That Didn’t Get Away
By Ken Moody Richard, our client, was cheerful as always, never doubting that we would persevere in the end, but those of us in the know were becoming a bit anxious. Day in and day out, we had spotted, tracked, crawled, snuck into, and engaged dozens of buffalo...
The Magnum Caveat
Kenny Jarrett built this .257 Weatherby Magnum on a post-’93 pre-’64 Winchester Model 70 action. It has a 26-inch barrel — critical for achieving magnum ballistics from a cartridge like the .257.By Terry Wieland Forty years ago, give or take an eon, basking in...
One for the Road
By Terry Wieland Across the Kalahari Almost all of the really great hunting books are less about hunting than they are about journeys. Sir Samuel Baker’s Nile Tributaries of Abyssinia, Theodore Roosevelt’s African Game Trails, even Ruark’s Horn of the...
Into The Thorns
Chapter Eleven The Bennachie Cattle Killer In June 2002 our agent, John Barth of Adventures Unlimited, sent us a hunter from Miles City, Pennsylvania. His name was Dan Greene and over the course of his safari we became firm friends. Dan had taken two...
Lessons From an African Bowhunter
By Strang Middleton SHOOTING FORM Basically, to shoot long yardages, you need good form. This means your shooting technique must be solid and, with practice, should come to you like putting one foot in front of another. A bowhunter should shoot his bow often...
Bulletproof
By Ken Moody An uneasy feeling tugged at my gut as we made our final approach on the wounded buffalo. We had pushed the old boy for hours and now, it seemed, the pushing was over. I knew he was there, just in the distance holed up in a tangle of sickle bush,...
One for the Road
By Terry Wieland 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, and industry types. One of the...
Cape Fearsome
Wieland with his Mount Longido bull – a Cape buffalo that proved the legends to be true.By Terry Wieland Years ago, I was told that professional hunters in East Africa wanted a young PH to have a close call with a Cape buffalo early in his career. Why? ...
The 30th is Pearl
By Bob Bixby My wife Pam and I marked our 30th wedding anniversary not with a Caribbean cruise or a European tour, but with nearly five weeks in Southern Africa. It is a place that’s always meant more to us than just a destination. On our 20th anniversary, we...
Conservation Controversies
The vista from the summit of Mount Stupid is vastly different from the view from the Valley of Despair By Morgan Hauptfleisch - Namibia Nature Foundation, Oppenheimer Research Fellow in People and Wildlife 12 November 2025Knowledge of wildlife behaviour, how...
Into The Thorns
Chapter Ten The Ethics The hunters found a track yesterday, shortly after noon, and followed it south towards the escarpment. It was a big elephant. His tracks indicated that he was old and had experienced some kind of mishap with his back left foot...
Buffalo Hunting – Fitness And Attitude
By Ken Moody As important as gun and caliber selection is fitness and attitude. Hunting Cape Buffalo is not particularly easy and at times can be demanding, both physically and mentally. The constant walking, checking tracks, driving areas, crawling, kneeling,...
One for the Road
By Terry Wieland Time Spent in Reconnaissance Many and lurid are the tales told by professional hunters of clients who show up with rifles they can’t shoot, of rifles not sighted in, even of clients so afraid of their rifles they have never even fired them....
Beyond the Pursuit – Why the Hound Hunt Model is Redefining modern Leopard Hunting
Across Zimbabwe, Mozambique, and Botswana, the hound-hunt has matured into one of Africa’s most disciplined and conservation-driven forms of leopard hunting. In this feature, Gavin Lipjes unpacks how the partnership between man and dog refines selectivity, elevates...