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African Hunting Show The publishers of of Africa’s finest hunting magazine, the African Hunting Gazette, are proud to bring you these exclusive all Africa Hunting Shows. If you love Africa or dream of hunting there one day, take note: North America has a new show dedicated just to African...

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.

Zeriah's father, a policeman, introduced her to rifles, surely never thinking his daughter would be taking hunters after the Big Five, like this leopard, taken by Scott Thomas with Zeriah at the foot of the Saltpansberg Mountain Range in South Africa.

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.

Mokoro at sunset: Although the hunters used motorboats to travel through the Okavango Delta, the traditional makoro is still the most pleasant and quiet method of transportation.

The view from the deck over the Okavango Delta from Calitz's Qorokwe Camp.

Elephant feeding in swamps: For the first few days of the safari, the hunters worked from early to late, following tracks, and looking over a number of the Delta's many photogenic elephants until they found a 'taker'.

Ray hunted his elephant from one of Johan Calitz's camps situated deep in Botswana's Okavango Delta where every hunting day ended with an unforgettable sunset.

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.

PH Louis Pansegrouw, hunter Ray Paolucci, and PH Johan Calitz with Ray's elephant. The official weights were: right tusk, 42 kgs (92.5lbs); left tusk 39.5 kgs (87lbs), which makes it the #2 elephant for Botswana in 2007.

This 'dog-eating' crocodile found its way into a private water dam that Tony Psaila of Spirit of Africa Taxidermy mounted as an interesting rug mount for the trophy room wall.

Although it takes only moments for a crocodile to grab its prey, it takes a sturdy steel armature - and lots of time in the taxidermy studio - to create mounts like this 13-foot croc from Zambia, mounted by Field & Stream Taxidermy.

Not only do crocodiles have to be 'wet tanned' because the skull remains intact during the tanning process, it is often damaged from the shot, and has to be rebuilt, along with the teeth. This 15.3-foot croc was mounted by Wolfgang Schenk Taxidermy.

The typical attacking position of a huge crocodile adds drama to the trophy room. Most PHs say a 13-foot croc should be the minimum for a trophy-sized croc.

On Taxidermy - Snappy Ways to Mount Your Croc by Fiona Davern Not everyone wants an 18-foot crocodile with a half-devoured lechwe in its jaws in the trophy room. Here are some ideas for mounting your impressive trophy – without driving the family out of the house. It’s no coincidence...

Hunting the Great Silence South Africa by Johan van Wyk Although the Great Karoo is one of the driest regions in South Africa - as well as freezing in winter and burning hot in summer - it is home to substantial numbers of game specifically adapted to this harsh environment. The bull...

Sunset over Lake !Xariep - otherwise called the Gariep Dam on most maps of South Africa.

Although the Great Karoo is one of the driest regions in South Africa - as well as freezing in winter and burning hot in summer - it is home to substantial numbers of game specifically adapted to this harsh environment.

During the hunt to South Africa's Great Karoo region, an area reputed to be dry, harsh and barren, van Wyk collected this 'one-shot' blesbok.

Van Wyk waited for a gemsbok cow to clear his bull before taking his shot at 231 metres. He had waited almost 20 years to take the 'desert aristocrat' - this one with 38-inch horns.

Van Wyk's hunting companion, Ren, with a young, but beautiful gemsbok bull, hunted in the Oviston Nature Reserve in South Africa's Eastern Cape Province.

The 'icing on the cake' is when Scott takes the fourth spiral-horned antelope of the day - an eland taken from a blind just before dark with a .375.

The third spiral-horned antelope of the day goes down when Ben takes his kudu. "We all know how important this trophy is to Ben, and what a grand specimen it is," writes Hulme.

Whilst some are simply gratified with Scott's 27-inch nyala bull, others are openly ecstatic with the solitary bull, which is the second spiral-horned antelope taken on Day 13 of the safari.

Scott and Ben with Ben's handsome bushbuck, taken with a .375 at 70 yards. PH Thierry Labat estimated the horns at around 15 inches.

Although Steve Kobrine has taken more than 90 species of African game with bow and arrow, including the Big Five twice, he specializes in the wary and elusive duiker species. Here he is with a Peter's duiker (Cephalophus callipygus).

Steve Kobrine smiles behind a Maxwell's duiker (Cephalophus maxwelli) taken in its typical equatorial forest habitat.

Kobrine was one of the first bowhunters to collect the West African savanna buffalo, recently re-classified by SCI.

Duikers can be very elusive, yet are very territorial. Often posting a pop-up hide near a likely feeding spot, trail, or waterhole can be productive. Kobrine has waited for days to get a single opportunity at some species.

Jason Cauble and Wouter with the first bull taken, a very respectable 43.5- inch spread. Walking in sand with the scrub in the background makes it easy to see how one might catch a couple of old bulls unawares.

PH Jamy Traut, Wouter and Jason Cauble admire two fine trophies taken in Namibia’s Bushmanland. The first bull taken has an impressive 43.5- inch spread, and while the second lacks the width, he more than makes up for any shortcomings in mass. The boss is truly enormous.

Spike camp in Bushmanland, rugged but more than adequate…as long as there is a good fire.

Nine-year-old Michele Kuri just might be the youngest hunter to bag a cheetah, taken with PH Cornelius Coetzee of CEC Safaris near the southern border of Ethosha National Park.

From afar, Dian observed her lion gazing out over the plains. "I had seen photos, TV shows and paintings, but never experienced this beautiful beast so close in the flesh."

Rocky and Dian Cooper wanted to collect both male and female lions in order to demonstrate their full beauty as a species in a diaroma in their trophy room. "Also, many hunters don't realize that a growing number of female lions are on quota for conservation purposes."

Dian and Rocky's daughter, Laura Hopkins, with her first African trophy - a mountain reedbuck. "I am now the proud mother of an upcoming Huntress of the Year."

Bobby collected this very unique East Africa kudu on his hunt.