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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...
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,...