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Facts on the Collared Lion

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...

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Secrets of the Cummerbund

Secrets of the Cummerbund

The venerable Beretta 71 has an interesting history as Mossad’s reported favorite tool of assassination, but it works equally well as a tucked-away carry gun, even in the most formal situations.This article was first published in Gunsmoke in 2019.By Terry Wieland...

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Black and Gold Adventure

Black and Gold Adventure

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...

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Into The Thorns

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...

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Into The Thorns

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...

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A Matter of Stripes

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...

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Always Trust Your PH…

Always Trust Your PH…

By Lucas Paugh   “Nothing captures your heart like Africa,” was the mantra of my friend and mentor Craig Boddington. And as a young hunter I had always dreamed of hunting Africa to experience what most others only talked about, and very few Americans ever...

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Secretarybirds: Africa’s Most Iconic Birds

Secretarybirds: Africa’s Most Iconic Birds

By Cassie Carstens, Secretarybird Conservation Manager, BirdLife South Africa.   As with most large bird species across the globe, the threats that Secretarybirds face are varied and widespread. Loss, fragmentation, and habitat degradation have the most...

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Red Hartebeest Among White Rhinos

Red Hartebeest Among White Rhinos

By Glenn W. Geelhoed   Kareekloof, Great Karoo Desert, South Africa   The setting sun tinted the red hartebeest an even more glowing shade of red as we tried to stalk toward it, using the slight depression of a “loof”, a long-ago run-off that had left a tangle of...

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Into The Thorns

Into The Thorns

Chapter Four Return to The Hills   As the Rhodesian war blazed into 1980, a ceasefire was brokered, and to keep us soldiers busy and out of mischief we were allocated various tasks throughout Mashonaland in support of the Department of National Parks and...

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Bulletproof – 30 Years Hunting Cape Buffalo

Bulletproof – 30 Years Hunting Cape Buffalo

Chapter 15 of 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...

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Fun and Games, or a Lifetime Calling?

Fun and Games, or a Lifetime Calling?

Wieland on Mount Longido in 1993.Written by Terry Wieland   One thing about hunting brown bears in the fall in coastal Alaska: You have lots of time to think. At first, you think about the big brownie that may step out of the thick alders at any moment, onto the...

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A Birthday in Bangweulu

A Birthday in Bangweulu

By Brandon Justus   Some men turning 40 consider a birthday trip to Vegas or a golf trip with the guys. I, on the other hand, wanted to travel to one of the most remote hunting destinations in Africa, the Bangweulu Swamps.   It all started in late 2023 when I began...

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Into The Thorns

Into The Thorns

Chapter Three Matobo   Like so many others, I always believed that these amazing formations were the result of bubbling oozing lava that had been squeezed out of the hot bowels of the earth millions of years ago.   But that assumption is wrong. The whole of...

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Bok Bok

Bok Bok

Written by Marina Lamprecht Late one November evening, the sounds of a predator on the prowl were heard near the lodge - a carnivore, hunting …   At dawn the following day, clear leopard tracks were seen on the edge of our garden, as well as signs of a scuffle...

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Into The Thorns

Into The Thorns

Into The Thorns Chapter Two Smell of The Hills   I was seven years and five months old when I was deposited on the hostel steps at Rhodes Estate Preparatory School. REPS (as it was called) is a boys boarding school and, in 1968, in true colonial tradition, was...

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