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One for the Road
By Terry Wieland Old-Time Wisdom In his book, African Rifles and Cartridges, John “Pondoro” Taylor often mentioned “cheap Continental magazine rifles,” and his comments were usually disparaging. Taylor set great store by reliability, not only of the...
A Nambian Safari
By Larry Collins My Namibian safari was the best vacation/hunting trip my wife Pat and I have ever taken. We left Atlanta, with the usual long flight via Joburg to Windhoek where, after collecting luggage, we met my PH, Dirk de Bod, at the Firearm Check-Out...
Wildlife Artist: Zoltan Boros
Zoltan Boros was born in Szabadka, Hungary in 1976. Nature and animals fascinated him since his early childhood. Zoltan began drawing at a young age, developing his talent by drawing the local wildlife. Later, he began to paint with oils and watercolors and continued...
What Makes a Trophy Buffalo
By Ken Moody The subject of what constitutes a trophy Cape Buffalo is one that causes me great irritation. There is a contingent of hunters who firmly believe that for a buffalo to be considered a ‘trophy,’ it must be at least 15 years old, a day away from...
Into The Thorns
Chapter Fourteen The Family Part 1 In our years of running safaris in four different countries we have worked with many natives, and it is not my intention to bore everyone to death by giving the life story of each one of them. We have seen so many...
Double Trouble With Buffalo Bwana
Ricardo (L) and Peter (R) Reunited at the Harare Airport.By Ricardo Leone August 2025 I am sure you do not want to read yet another story about a buffalo hunt. Please, stay with me - this is an account of shooting a brace of buffalo - not once, but three...
Into The Thorns
Chapter Thirteen The Season of Monsters In the year 2000, political turmoil struck Zimbabwe. The government ignited an aggressive lawless land take over for reasons which I won’t discuss here. The white farmers were beaten and driven from their land and...
One for the Road
By Terry Wieland Mbogo and the Greeks It’s tempting to change the names in this piece to protect the guilty, but instead we’ll just go with Christian names and let the reader speculate. It all happened a long time ago — almost a quarter century — and...
Buffalo Shot Placement
By Ken Moody Now that you’ve selected your rifle, caliber, and bullet, it’s probably time to discuss where to aim and hit the buffalo for a successful outcome. Buffalo may seem unkillable at times and earn the nickname ‘bullet sponge,’ but with the proper...
Cynthie Fisher, SCI Artist of the Year
Wildlife artist Cynthie Fisher is nuts about animals. Everything in her world revolves around her love and admiration for all wildlife, which is aided by her college studies in zoology and wildlife management. She chooses to share this love via her vibrant colorful...
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...