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I just noticed a part of this I hadn’t noticed before. You suggest people contact you for information on the OP’s hunt - “DOCUMENTATION provided to me by Mayo.” If this is correct, it strikes me as a serious breach of ethics and privacy. Mayo is certainly entitled to use whatever information...

Guav Johnson posted about this tragedy on Instagram. Without getting into what and where is enough, no one who dedicates themselves to the conservation of wildlife deserves to lose their life like this. My sympathies to his family and to the entire Mayo Oldiri team on the loss of a family...

I for one don't think that what DLSJR posted "was wrong." On the contrary, I think he posted his perspective on what he saw in his hunt, and the basis for that perspective. I think all hunters should be encouraged to do the same. Open up the discussion. Get the different perspectives out...

Sorry to hear about your troubles, but congrats on the LDE. They are truly wonderful animals, and not an easy hunt. I hunted with Mayo Oldiri for LDE in 2029, and at that time they had a pretty robust anti-poaching program. In my two weeks in there we ran into a group of poachers and sent our...

I’m sorry that you have run into these types of people. Most hunters aren’t like that, at least in my experience. I’ve been able to hunt many of the places you mentioned, as well as just about every part of South Africa. I still enjoy hunting South Africa - and in fact have a 10 day hunt...

What's the punishment for pointing out that rabies is a mammalian disease?

Probably best known (by hunters) for the Perfect Shot books . . .

The best hunting areas - just my opinion - in the Matetsi area are the units, numbered 1-5 (unless things have changed). I know the owners of Unit 2 - who also hunt Kazuma - and they are first rate. Even though I have hunted Matetsi three times, I have never come across Matetsi East. Given...

I've hunted buffalo cows before and candidly, I've found no difference between cows and bulls, in terms of the hunting. This strikes me as a great deal!

I rarely disagree with Red Leg . . . But I might just in the is case, if only with respect to his rationale. In my limited experience, an appy typically doesn’t have much work, or extra work, to do in elephant hunting. The hunt typically involves driving until tracks are found, assessing them...

Bit of a sore spot there Neophyte! There are nine spiral horned antelope in the world, but only four or so are typically found in South Africa. So South African outfitters (some, not all) came up with, and advertise, the "spiral horn slam" and made it those which they had. An incentive to...

Those are tough questions. My favourite might be the lesser kudu - it's such a beautiful animal, and I wasn't well, so the hunt nearly killed me (we actually thought I was having a heart attack walking the dry river bed!). It's not usually a difficult hunt, although in Ethiopia, where I found...

That's an excellent question Firebird. As they say, ask and . . . well, something might happen. At the risk of repetition and being a bit boring, here are my spiral horns, in the order in which I got them. Having said that, in many cases I've shot multiples (eland, kudu (dozens), bushbuck...

You raise an interesting issue. I’ve been a member here for quite some time and I - as well as some of the other older members - have noticed a change in the general ‘tone’ of the forum. What was consistently friendly, collegial and fun has sometimes become adversarial and aggressive. I’m not...

Congratulations on the buffalo! And - at the risk of setting off the thread - for hunting it the way buffalo should be hunted! Unit 2 is a great hunting area and doing very well under is current management. It’s big, it’s got lots of varied terrain, and plenty of game. I expect to hear more...

.300 Win Mag. As I mentioned, the leopard didn’t do far - in fact, he only went as far as he tumbled, but he should have been dead.

My first hunt was with a friend. Of the next more than 15 (!), one was a friend, one with my son and one with my wife. The rest have been alone. I’ve often had my booking agent/outfitter with me who is Zimbabwean and lives there, to video my hunts. I trust him to get me where I need to be...

Thanks. Don’t want to get off topic . . . But It was an interesting experience. The shot had looked good - the leopard fell out of the tree like the proverbial sack of potatoes. We got geared up to go have a look, and got the pep talk from the PH - we go slow and in a line, if we get charged...

This happened back in 2009, I think (maybe 2010) and I can’t recall who did the dip and pack. I do recall it took more than a year to get the skin (and other trophies) home from Zimbabwe. My taxidermist here thought it might have been a poor job of skinning, but that was speculation - my PH on...

It might be helpful if we could agree on the meaning of our terms. Some use the term “wild areas” to mean areas which are devoid of people. Some suggested that by this definition, perhaps only some places in Alaska and Canada would qualify. I would suggest that people have been just about...

Good to have Rigby aboard. I have a .416 and a .275 . . . Love them both!

Stayed with the Euro? They were never in the Euro . . .

50%. Both leopard hunts were in Zimbabwe, in National Parks areas (so no night hunting). In the first, we had leopard on baits but were unable to get them to come during shooting hours and in fact never saw one. But spent a lot of time driving from bait to bait and sitting in blinds. The...

The Hartmann mountain zebra has a dewlap which the Burchell’s does not. It seems lots of taxidermists - both in Africa and especially North America - tend to mount the Hartmann without the dewlap. Perhaps they treat all zebra as Burchell’s - which are more common by far. The stripes on the...

Three things. First, I don’t see that the fact that Namibia doesn’t have an illegal immigration’s issue, as do Canada and the US, is relevant here. There are lots of reasons countries may impose visa requirements and illegal immigration is only one. In this case, as Namibia is saying, it’s a...

It’s a mystery to me that authorities won’t make any effort to assist those who are doing everything in their power to comply with the law, if only they could figure out what that is. Maybe it’s because the ‘administrative state’ has become so immense, that not even the authorities know the law...

This is more than a little confusing. ATF Form 6NIA is entitled “Application/Permit for Temporary Importation of Firearms and Ammunition by Nonimmigrant Aliens” and has nothing to do with transmitting the US. I’ve applied for the permit before, when I’ve been travelling to the US to hunt - and...

Historically, the best way to lower the rate of increase in populations is to increase the economic well-being of those populations. In other words, the poorer the country, the higher the rate of population growth. Having said that, it needs to be noted that countries with the highest rates of...

The pros and cons of hunting RSA in January? You've heard the cons - hot, sometimes very hot, buggy, and often very humid. Another con is that the brush may be very thick - to the point where finding the animals will likely be more difficult than it is in winter, when the grass is generally...

Really interesting read. This reinforces what we generally intuitively know - but equally generally forget - that nature is one interdependent system. What many also seem to forget - or want to forget - is that humans are as much a part of those systems as any other living thing. To want to...

Obviously to each their own - I can’t disagree with anything posted here. And I certainly understand someone wanting a nice buffalo with a good set of horns as their first. But I will say that scrum caps are few and far between, and of the few I’ve seen, all have been old warriors which have...

I've been fortunate to shoot a number of buffalo over the years. Here are pictures of my two favourite. One is a bit over 42", while the other, well, who knows? Didn't seem worthwhile to measure his horns. So which one of these two, do you think I like more than the other? And which one...

I'm very late to this conversation. I shot two rather scruffy cull eland bulls within minutes of each other using my .275 Rigby Highland Stalker. One was a one shot kill, the other took two, but the fault there was mine, not the rifle's. The .275, especially one as nicely balanced as the...

I've posted some bad shots I think (I've certainly written about them) . . . but more to show what can happen - I haven't been very proud of any of them!

I agree in principal, but might be a bit kinder in practice. He should not have taken the hip shot as a first shot, but then I'd have thought that Buzz would have said "don't shoot' once the brain shot (or the heart lung) was no longer an option. It's very easy to get excited when staring down...

My PH got me to about 15 yards (and still muffed the brain shot). I would want to be much closer than 50 yards before I would even think of taking a shot - not for accuracy (although that's important and closer helps obviously), but because getting that close to such an enormous beast is well...