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Sometimes things just work out. My recent trip to Cameroon was not one of them. However, as I was in route, I got a WhatsApp message from my good friends at KOS Safari’s in Uganda of a hunt cancellation. Tags just became available for a Sudanese Roan, a Chandler’s Mountain Reedbuck, and an East...

Well, it all started (as it often does) at Dallas Safari Club. “What should we do this year?” I asked my lovely wife. “I think we should find an operator suffering from malaria, briefly talk to the other guy at his booth, bid on his DSC Auction hunt that we know nothing about, and then go to...

The 2024 hunting/safari season has started. I am currently sitting in a hotel in Nairobi, Kenya on a stopover to the Karamoja region of Uganda (I know, I should be at the Stanley Hotel for pure nostalgia reasons, but the flight landed late and it’s not close to airport). I left the house on...

I am headed to Uganda next week, and I have uncharacteristically started packing early. It gave me the idea to share some advice I received about 10 years ago from a real safari veteran – ask what they need, not what you need. Particularly if you are coming from the U.S. My normal gear now...

I booked an elephant hunt for 10 days. Elephant can be serious work, requiring miles of walking, stalking, and tracking. Then I shot a great bull on the first day. Hmm, now what? Fortunately, I brought a good friend along as an observer. Since he had never hunted dangerous game, we had both an...

I am a pretty serious American hunter. Therefore, I own guns. A fair amount of them. I own small bores, big bores, and a whole bunch of the mid-bores, which are all basically the same, but give rise to endless discussion about which one is best. Hint – they are all the same. I own expensive...

I recently spent a few weeks in Africa with a good friend, who also happens to be a well-known outfitter, hunting guide, and TV show host. He has made his living in the hunting industry for more than 35 years and his personal hunting career is legendary. One of our great campfire conversations...

I recently had a chance to spend some time in a great camp in Zimbabwe. Around the camp fire, the property manger and I got into a very good discussion about “non-trophy” hunts. He and the PHs that hunt the property have had some trouble booking “non-trophy” hunts. In there case, “non-trophy”...

Safari hunters plan. Sometimes for years. It takes time to pick the right location, target species, gun and caliber, bullets, airline, taxidermist, and other details of safari hunting. We did not do any of those things. The ringing phone was my very good, and slightly crazy, friend Lary. “Hey...

I have bee an AfricaHunting member for a long time, though I have not posted in a very long time. Not much worth saying anymore. But every once in a while, something comes along with sharing. I go to Africa almost every year. Now I usually take employees, friends or my kids so they can...

Hey Guys - I have been an active AH fan and supporter from its early days, so I am looking for information and not to start an endless debate. My SA PH and good friend is coming to US for show season, and via email we briefly chatted about 2014 and 2015 hunts. I got hard hit by recession and had...

Hey Everyone - I am trying to send an email to Nixon Dzingai of SSG Safari's. I last hunted with Nixon in 2010 and want to get in touch him him again, but cannot recall his email. If you have it, could you please send me a PM with Nixon's email so I can talk to him about another elepehant hunt...

Ladies & Gents - I am hoping that someone can help me with the issue of putting a scope on a Merkel 141 in 9.3x74R or a 375 H&H Mag. I am a bit of a purist and my Heym 88b in 470 NE is not scoped. But I am buying another double rifle (because IMO you cannot beat a double while on Safari) for...

Are Hunters and Outfitters at Odds with Each Other? Author with Lion Hunted in South AFrica I think the underlying issue is the escalating cost of international (or any) hunting at a time when hunter numbers are going down and the global economy is in a recession. I am a "client."...

There have been some very good threads in the last few weeks. Most recently there was the a great thread about the "PAC trend." For he record, I do not like it! That said, I think the underlying issue is the escalting cost of international (or any) hunting at a time when hunter numbers are...

I love to hunt Elephant. I would hunt every year except for the cost - which can be staggering. But very year most operators have extra elephant on quota that they in part paid for. Has anone figured out how to tap into that fact and negotiate a reasonable (all things being relative) elephant...

How to hunt Leopard I shot my one and only Leopard at 8:30 in the morning after it charged a tracker who was checking the bait. I was with the PH and 2 other trackers elephant hunting. When we got the radio call about what happened we went to investigate. Sounded odd, very odd, in part...

There is another post on here about the ways to hunt Leopard. I was submitting a reply to that when I decided it would make an interesting follow-up thread. He is my story. Anyone else got a good Leopard, or other critter, story to share. Incidentally, every word is true. I shot my one and...

I just heard that the high court in South Africa struck down the proposed regulations that would have increased the release period for captive bred lions from 6 months to two (2) years before the lions can be hunted. The game ranchers who raise lions, and the various outfitters equipped to...

I recently made my one and only post about the venerable subject of Mark Sullivan. I was asked to and therefore did re-post it on another popular internet forum. The response was both good and bad, and when it was bad, it was really bad. Cyber-bullying to the extreme. One very disturbing trend...

Are You looking Forward to Your Next Hunting Safari? I have been fortunate to hunt around the world. No place is, in my opinion, more exciting than Africa. And while every hunt that I have been on in Africa has been exciting, nothing comes close to dangerous game hunting. I hope that...

Hey Guys (and Girls) - I keep checking back and although it's almost September - I have not seen much discussion of the various safari's taken this year. I hunted early this season and wrote a fairly long piece about my lion hunt. On that same trip I did a green rhino hunt (a beyond AWESOME...

New Perspective on Lion Hunting in South Africa I just returned from a Safari in South Africa. The main species on the agenda were a Lion and a "Green Hunt" for a Rhino. I brought home a life time of memories, every single thing I saw and heard made Africa the experience of a lifetime. I have...

I just returned from a Safari in South Africa. The main species on the agenda were a Lion and a "Green Hunt" for a Rhino. I brought home a life time of memories, every single thing I saw and heard made Africa the experience of a lifetime. I have hunted a lot of places but never Africa. This year...

I put a Nikon 1x4.5 DG series scope on my CZ 550 in 458 Lott. I noticed when I mounted the scope that it did not have goves cut into the weaver-style mounting slides, like many other guns. I just I did not pay enough attention to that. I used Weaver-style quick release mounts made by Leopold...

In an earlier post I sampled the groups' thoughts on the various bullet choices for big bore expansion bullets and solids. I am already firmly committed to Nosler Partitions for PG and the cats. The best brass I could find (as everyone knows, ammunition is in very short supply and reloading...

I have a big and young family. We cannot hunt Big Game in the USA until at least 12, and the hunting can be tough. Not as many animals are seen and the shooing can be quick and difficult and if the chance is blown, it coud b a while before anyting else comes up. What age do you recommend...

Hi Guys - I had been communicating with an outfiter who was also a taxidermist and produced some unique furniture. I lost the contact information. Can someone help me, or will the taxidermist conact me again via PM for more information?

This question comes from the Shot Placement on Leopard thread but seems worthy of a whole discussion itself. Personally, I grew up in the eastern US, where whitetail deer ARE the big animal to hunt. Whitetails are plentiful but very spooky, wily, at times almost ghostly critters. Most get shot...

Hey Guys (and girls!) - when is the right time to buy a young man his first gun? My wife delivered our 5th child, a boy named Tarpon James Joy, on Saturday. He and mommy are doing great and will be home tommorrow. That makes 5 for us, a 5 year old daughter, twin girls who are 3, a son who is...

Now that most African countries require at least a .375 for Dangerous Game, I am wondering about the bullet chioce for Leopard. I am starting to get too many different bullets for one gun. I have a .375 for most everythig big except for a .458 Lott for that one really big critter. I have good...

I bought a CZ 550 in 458 Lott/458 Win Mag for the Elephant part of my Big 5 Safari this year. Still looking for a double but I have a custom .375 H&H Mag. that is a great gun and originally belonged to my uncle you gave it to my when he died and I always considered it to be a special honor...

Anyone been to the small (relatively speaking) Malapati Concession in southestern Zim by the National Park on the border with Mozambique? I am headed there this year and I understand its known for good elephants (meaning good numbers and decent #s i the 50+ lb range with 3 of 9 last year goging...

You guys have been great about giving up good advice, backed up by real experience. I have learned a lot from this site. I hope you do not mind another, probably asked and answered already, question. When hunting elephant, do you think it is better to use a low power (1x4 type) scope with a...

See a lot of posts fro serious African hunters that are shooting the CZ 550. Truthfully, I always thought, for no particular reason other than price, that they were less than great guns. But obviously that cannot be true, or so many people would not have them. I just finally looked at one in a...

I know this question comes up all of the time, and I am sorry for those long time members who have to address it again, but I hope that you will use your knowledge to help a first time dangerous game hunter. The issue is obvisouly the back up shot. On leopards its not an issue - I have to...

I have been posting many questions recently, ever since I booked 2 safaris to hunt the Big 5 next year. Great forum and everyone is very helpful. My current quandry is this: I will be hunting with a very reliable, rebuilt Remington P17 Mauser that I just had rebarreled to .375 H&H Mag. My...

I am headed to Africa for a three (maybe 4) species Hunt. We are targeting Elephant, Leopard and Cape Buffalo in the Malapati region of southern Zim. I will be shooting the venerable .375 H&H mag. and I am very comfortable with the rifle. I can handle bigger bore guns but the .375 H&H is by far...

I have a hunt booked with PH Wesley van der Ween. I cannot find him mentioned anywhere on this site. I might be looking in the wrong place. Everything reference I have checked, including some very expierienced African hunters say he is great. Young guy (under 30) and we are doing among other...

Hunting collegues - We all owe John Jackson of Conservation Force a huge thank you. Today was the deadline for Countries to submit agenda items for the CoP meeting in March. No one petitioned to up-list Lion from CITES II to CITES appendix I status. It apparently remains a remote possiblity that...

I am new to this forum because I am new to African hunting. I joined becuase of the great threads and information I saw. I am not an intentionally controversial person, but 2 events have happend to me that has caused me to ask the question: why are so many hunters seemingly afraid to post a...

I have been searching all of the literature about lion hunting throughout Africa recently and I am not to proud to admit that I am confused and unable to figure out the truth. I could really use the good information that I have seen on this forum to help me understand the possibility, or...