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A Red Forest Buffalo in Kaffa Province of Ethiopia? by PH Nassos N. Roussos The distinctly coloured and horned dwarf (or red) forest buffalo is more typically found in the rainy forests of West Africa (Guinea, Sierra Leone, Liberia, Ivory Coast, Ghana, Nigeria, southern Cameroon), as well...

Hunting Buffalo in Mozambique - The Land of My Dreams by Jessica Brooks Mozambique has always fascinated me. I remembered my father being invited to hunt elephant there shortly after the country’s civil war ended in 1992. Back then, no one really had much of an idea what kind of game...

African Sporting Gazette is now African Hunting Gazette Changing the name of a magazine is either the boldest – or the craziest – thing one can do. But here’s my thinking: In 2000, when I took over the title African Sporting Gazette from John Ormiston, who also published the Scottish...

Hunting for buffalo here required trudging through the swamp, sometimes in chest-deep water for Jessica. She cut several slits in the uppers of her boots with a knife to help the water drain out with each step.

The meals in camp, mostly consisting of wild game, were excellent, which contributes to the pleasure of any African safari experience - especially when the hunting is hard.

These small, jungle forests seemed to "patchwork" among the swamps and tall grass where bushbuck, bushpig and warthog live. The wind can stand virtually still inside the canopy, or change direction very quickly, which led to several disappointing stalks.

Jessica Brooks took her first Cape buffalo at 60 yards with a single, well-placed 350-grain Barnes X-Bullet from her .416 Remington Mag, with PH Leon Lamprecht of McDonald Pro Hunting.

Jessica found crocodile hunting to be more fun than she could have imagined. Her PH had named one of the beaches "Club Med for Crocodiles" due to the number of these large lizards one could catch sunning themselves mid-day. One shot from her .416 Remington Mag loaded with 350-grain...

The distinctly coloured and horned dwarf (or red) forest buffalo is more typically found in the rainy forests of West Africa (Guinea, Sierra Leone, Liberia, Ivory Coast, Ghana, Nigeria, southern Cameroon), as well as south-west C.A.R., Gabon, Congo-Brazzaville, Congo-Kinshasa, even Angola –...

The distinctly coloured and horned  dwarf (or red) forest buffalo is more typically found in the rainy forests of West Africa (Guinea, Sierra Leone, Liberia, Ivory Coast, Ghana, Nigeria, southern Cameroon), as well as south-west C.A.R., Gabon, Congo-Brazzaville, Congo-Kinshasa, even Angola –...

Shangaan Bull Zimbabwe by Jeff Sevor © Martin Harvey “Nzhou,” whispered Peter, a Shangaan, his thin arm pointing to the slightest scuff on a rocky kopje. Five sets of eyes stared at this almost imperceptible mark and tried to visualize the great beast behind the miniscule evidence...

Huntress Diana and PH Zeriah Steyn - Always a Lady by Tamara Oberholster PH Zeriah Steyn, one of only a handful of registered female PHs in South Africa, is pictured here with Texas fire chief Roger Woodard, who took his first impala with Zeriah in 2006. Hunting has traditionally been a...

On an Elephant Hunt with a .500 Jeffery in Botswana by Ray Paolucci Campfire flames: After a warm welcome, fit for Teddy Roosevelt, returning hunter Ray Paolucci was glad to be back to Botswana, and back around the safari campfire. Time was short and the new .500 Jeffery, built by Todd...

Zeriah guides her clients throughout South Africa, Namibia, Zimbabwe, and Zambia where, in 2005 on the Luangwa River, Jeff Philbrook (pictured here with his wife, Fran) took this excellent 46-inch sable.