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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...
Hunting Memories
By Sara Haigh In March 2025, I lost John, my husband and best friend of over 37 years. John was first diagnosed with cancer 26 years ago at the age of 54. Despite this adversity John acquired a zest for life, rose to the challenge of seeing more of the...
20 Years Tracking & Hunting in South Africa
By Alessandro Cabella “Moments like these are what make hunting so deeply meaningful – not just the pursuit, or the danger, or the kill – but the partnership with the land, the species, and the timeless rhythm of survival.” A Legacy of the Land I...
Into The Thorns
Chapter Nine Mauling at SHangani One of the safari booking agents we used to work with sent us a Spanish hunter who spends most of the year in Mexico. He is Venancio Ruis Corbella and he is a fine gentleman of the old school. I guided Venancio on his...
Buffalo Are Different
By Ken Moody There are many species and places on our planet to hunt. Sheep reside in the snow-capped mountains of British Columbia or the arid Mexican desert. The elusive bongo can be found in the rain forests of central Africa and the whitetail deer just...
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. 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...