Recent content by DLSJR

I just got my trophies from my 2023 Selous hunt home yesterday. The long delay was due to SSI dropping the ball on the CITES permit for my leopard. Everything arrived in great shape. Cost to get my shipment home from Tanzania wasn’t too bad, all things considered. Turkish Airlines was $3,270...

Safari Salama!

I just got the shipment from my Selous hunt in 2023 (SSI screwed the pooch on CITES permit, so it took forever) and thought it might be of interest to see the skulls from 4 different Tanzania bulls, all of which are older bulls ranging from estimated 10 to 13/14 years old. All mature Dugga Boy...

Well, to repeat what so many others have said… A very hearty congratulations on completing an epic hunt. You persevered through arduous conditions and in the end it paid off handsomely with a very nice elephant and perfect hippo to take. Sometimes the very toughest hunts are the ones we...

That was a wonderful article. It gives a perspective on Harry Selby I hadn’t read before. Both Harry and Joe Coogan were fortunate to have lived and hunted in Africa when they did.

This is what you’ll want to practice on… www.lifesizeanimaltargets.com Select the Cape Buffalo target. It’s excellent and has the vitals faintly drawn onto the target so you can see what you hit.

Self induced poverty is a thing! Ask me how I know.

I often say if a person wants to take up an addiction, try heroin or cocaine instead. It won’t grip you as tightly or cost as much as dangerous game hunting.

@Betterinthebush Thank You! This is one of the finest, most well written and interesting hunt reports I’ve read in a very long time. Thanks for making the effort to write a really great story! I truly enjoyed following along with each installment. Fantastic leopard! You’re very fortunate...

I killed my first leopard after a couple hours on my very first sit, first safari I killed my 2nd leopard mid-day on my first day, tracking with Bushmen, on my third safari. Third time I hunted leopards was on 7th safari. October-November hunt. Very tough conditions, no leopard Fourth time...

You’ll be well served with .338 Core-lokt’s for your leopard. Very good choice.

If a hunter is interested and has some experience he should feel fine hunting dangerous game on his first African hunt. That’s what I did on my first African hunt back in 1983. I booked a 24-day full bag hunt in Zimbabwe that Included everything except a lion on license. I should have made...

You’ll be better served with the 375 and 300 grain bullets

If your buffalo is broadside, and a great many are shot broadside, keep it real simple. Go up the front leg and about 6” above the elbow and shoot him there. You’ll quickly have a very dead buffalo, no matter if you’re 4” or 8” above the elbow. Just do not go behind the leg. There is no...

I simply want to be the beneficiary on the life insurance of anyone who cares to test this out. It could fund a lot of hunting for me.