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Not Just Hunting in the Eastern Cape
Abigail with her white-horned blesbok bull at the Hotfire property.By Abigail Prevost I was not sure what to expect when we stepped off the plane in East London, but I got the feeling that the next two weeks were going to be something incredible – and my gut...
Great Bulls of Fire
By Enrich Hugo The smoke stings something in the lungs and the ash particles that whirl through the air tickle the nostrils. And occasionally we had to deal with glow around us. In addition to the ash, the air is full of insects and other small crawlies. Wherever...
The Baobab Buffalo
By Kevin Cunningham It is almost a cliché to say that hunting Cape Buffalo is special. For me it began, curiously enough, many years ago hunting whitewing dove in Mexico with Ralf. Ralf was a successful, greying guy who loved the hunting and fishing life, and who...
Some Things You Just Cannot Make Up!
A tired crew in front of the cave with a worthy trophy.By Ricardo Leone This past January 2023 at the DSC Show, I was reunited with my Professional Hunter, Gamshad Gam, from a memorable Tanzanian Safari, nearly a decade ago. We had not seen each other nor talked...
Down Under in Namibia
Written by Erich Mueller Hardly a Wild West scene is as well known as the long-range shot in the film Quigley Down Under. The weapon used by Tom Selleck as the sniper, Quigley, in the Australian film was a Sharps 1874 with Creedmoor Diopter. It was this film...
Searching for Sable
By Darrell Sterling I have always admired the regal appearance of the jet-black sable with its long sweeping horns. They are one of the most iconic and majestic plains-game animals in all of Africa. A dozen years ago they used to be very expensive to hunt. And I...
World’s Longest Buffalo Hunt!
By Jim Thorn I hunted with Monterra Safaris in May 2021. On that hunt I had an opportunity to take a Cape buffalo that was giving them some problems. Of course, my only bad shot of the entire hunt was on this buffalo. Not nervous, not in a bad position, the...
Hunting Lord Derby Eland in Cameroon with Mayo Oldiri
On the fourth day hunting LD eland we picked up the tracks of two bulls at around 7am and followed them for about 2 hours. The droppings were shiny and moist, and we knew we were close. As we moved over a slight hill, I spotted the two bulls moving in front of us,...
Hunting the Big Little Buck
Mountain reedbuck afford a challenge hunt in the wild.By Daryl Crimp “He’s an absolute monster,” said PH Pete matter-of-factly, “and he lives on this big plateau.” ‘Big’ was an understatement. Even ‘huge’ didn’t cut it. The landscape in Eastern Cape is steroid-...
Bongo Hunting
Written by Frank Zits After the Big Five (lion, leopard, rhino, elephant, and Cape buffalo), hunting forest bongo possibly rates next, or at least high, on the list of dream safaris for most African game hunters. There are two types of African bongos, the western or...
Black Death with a Crossbow
Written by Jon FossilThirty yards in front of me, two huge Cape buffalo were repeatedly goring each other in a battle to the death. We had been following these two Dagga Boys for several hours and were now only 30 yards from the two combatants with nothing but a...
A Little Namibian Adventure
Written by Alan Tuck In September 2022, I hunted at Okarumuti Game Lodge, 70km outside Windhoek, Namibia. The Italian-owned and -run lodge, located almost exactly in the center of the country, has a working cattle ranch that sells hunts. On my trip, I...
Elephants and Mega Wildlife
Written by Richard Lendrum It was just over 20 years since I last sat down and had dinner with Johan after his life-altering buffalo attack. Much has changed in Johan Calitz’s life since then; and what a treat to catch up and spend five whole days with this...
Hunting Mozambique with Mashambanzou
Written by Randy Pretzer I am not much of an author, but my wife and I hunted the Zambezi River area of Mozambique in 2022 and I wanted to share our story. This trip was purchased at an SCI auction as a crocodile hunt with Mashambanzou Safaris, although I was able...
My Hunting Journey
By Valerio Ventriglia My hunting life began in in Zambia, at a very young age. I used to go for my school holidays to Zambia, spending three months at a time. I used to pester my father to let me go with him when he went hunting, but as I was too small, I used...
Ian Wilmot’s Monster Eastern Cape Kudu
By Ian Wilmot The biggest kudu we ever shot in the Eastern Cape was a 63-inch kudu, shot 3 or 4 years back. Still the biggest kudu to come out of the Eastern Cape. And it was an interesting hunt, an enjoyable hunt. The terrain is challenging. And this kudu had...
Young and Dumb, but Alive!
By Ryan Phelan of Hotfire Safaris In the early 2000s, I was running a private game reserve in the Tuli Block in Botswana. We had one particular elephant bull that was becoming a nuisance, as he was destroying our solar pumps and panels and threatening my fencing...
Silhouettes in the Mist at Lake Mburo
Abdullah in position next to the sitatunga and screaming in the mist.By Ricardo Leone I had met my friend Peter “Bwana” Chipman of Kwalata Safaris in Zambia at the Safari Show in early 2020 and made his booth my home for the three days that I explored the exhibition...
Dugga Boy! A Zambian Adventure
By Stuart Ward, February 2022 Hello and welcome to Africa. Jeannette and I are greeted warmly with smiles. Zambia is a very pleasant breezy cool in early June. The air is rich with earthy mopane smoke aromas. It’s that back woods campfire smell, only different...
Springbok Slam on a Short Timeline
By Michael W. Mills, Maricopa, AZ, USA Africa is a place that grows on you. The more I experience Africa, the more I want to return. Planning for my Africa 2022 trip started before I completed a hunt in 2021. Fast forward a year, I’m in South Africa with my...