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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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Long Range Shooting and Africa?

Long Range Shooting and Africa?

By Reid Scott   Long range shooting and African hunting. Like whiskey and tonic, surely those two things do not mix. They might both have their merits, but how can one channel their inner Hemmingway while carrying a synthetic rifle topped by an optic that looks like...

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Hunters – We Are Caring

Hunters – We Are Caring

Robert harvested many excellent animals. Here he is with a very impressive Black Wildebeest. A beautiful animal indeed.By Lavon Winkler   “You have to be flexible.  It’s called ‘hunting’ for a reason.  Sometimes things go well and other times, well, they don’t go...

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The Road Back to Africa

The Road Back to Africa

By Andrea Bogard   In August 2019, as a very new hunter, I had an opportunity to journey to Africa. Seeking both plains game and adventure, I touched down in Namibia with no idea what to expect from the next three weeks. The experience was both illuminating and...

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The Magnetic Draw of Africa

The Magnetic Draw of Africa

I was recently in a large classroom, and the question was asked how many people had been to Disney World. About 80% of the audience raised their hands. The second question asked was how many people had been back to Disney World, and almost the same number of folks...

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Zebra in the Dusk

Zebra in the Dusk

My heart is pounding, sweat is dripping from my brow.  The dash to the tree, the only cover available in this wide-open barren landscape, isn‘t especially far, but with an evening temperature of almost 30 degrees it‘s been a real drain on the little energy I have...

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Into The Thorns

Into The Thorns

Into The Thorns Chapter One Ambush Alley   On one of the farms on the far western boundary of the Project, just ibefore we cross the Ingwezi riverbed onto AJ’s properties, the dirt road snakes its way between two high ridges of rugged koppies that run parallel to...

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Into The Thorns

Into The Thorns

In 2008, renowned Zimbabwean leopard hunter, Wayne Grant, wrote a book called “Into The Thorns,” which was published by Mag set publications. This book was very well received, and regarded by many, as the best, most complete work on leopard hunting and leopard...

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Where The Turacos Sing

Where The Turacos Sing

Usually, hunting bongo is not very difficult; it doesn't require insurmountable physical effort. But it does demand tenacity, concentration, and the willingness to face the often-hostile and sometimes painful equatorial forest. One must also accept the long, tedious...

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