Recent content by Stephen Ausband

Wonderful write-up and great pictures as well. My nephew and I hunted with Ernest in 2024, and we will be going back in '27. Your post brings back very pleasant memories, as we also hunted the Greater Kruger for buffalo (seeing lions frequently and listening to them in the evenings), and hunting...

Wonderful write-up and a fine hunt. Congratulations. I hunted with Ernest in 2024, and I agree with you that he and Marita run a great operation at Spear Safaris. I hope to hunt with him again.

Wonderful! Congratulations!

Relax and enjoy your trip. You'll be fine. There will be annoying guys at the Jo'berg airport wanting to "help" you with luggage and stuff for a tip, but if you're being met there by your PH or someone from the Afton staff, you don't even have to worry about that.

Thaks for asking, Osne. It was a wonderful trip, but it was delayed until 2024. I posted a full report on May 5, 2024 with the title, "Two Buffalo Cows and Wildebeest Charge. Who Gnu?" That's in case you're interested in the details.

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Never had anything really hairy happen while hunting overseas. We did get charged in Zimbabwe by a foul-tempered cow elephant. We were in the Toyota, driving slowly on a sandy track, looking for buffalo. The driver (PH) put it in reverse and the chase was on. After what seemed a long way and a...

Lots of good information in the posts above. I am certainly no expert, having only killed two buffalo bulls (one in Zimbabwe, another in South Africa), and one buffalo cow. The cow hunt was in the greater Kruger area (unfenced) in SA, and there were lions hunting the same herd of buffalo we were...

It's a beauty of a place, and it has good, hard, honest hunting. We were there in late April of this year and got to hunt and sightsee on both of the +24,000-acre properties Ernest mentioned. (This after a hunt for cow buffalo in the Greater Kruger area.) It was a fine safari, and the new camp...

Oh yes. Very similar to hunting for a buffalo bull, but a lot less pricey. These two pictures are from April, 2024. The second photo should have a word balloon above it saying, "One of us is fixin' to have a very bad day."

Mid-late April. I think May would actually be better.

I also hunted with Ernest Dyason of Spear Safaris in the greater Kruger area. I had taken buffalo bulls on previous hunts (in Zimbabwe and SA). This time Ernest secured permits for 2 buffalo cows for my nephew and myself. (Pretty similar hunt to hunting herd bulls, but less expensive.) The camp...

Trophies are for remembering hunts, remembering the excitement, the hardships, the sweat, the smell of the campfire, and the final moment when you know the animal is yours. They are not (or should not be) for impressing your fellow hunters. If it's a good animal that was well hunted, and if it...

I've killed two whitetail deer with my .375 H&H. I usually hunt with a .270, but I had recently sighted in my only "African caliber" rifle, found it to be very accurate, and just wanted to try it on deer. Both deer were hit with 300 grain A-Frame bullets from factory loads (Federal or...