High on the drug of the tug
The ultimate quarry? It is — and always has been — one of the great dinner table discussions through the ages. As it is etched into stone caves in the Drakensberg Mountains of South Africa, Sulawesi in Indonesia and in Lascaux in France, so the reverence we hunters have for our quarry is etched into our DNA.
To the San — the oldest inhabitants of southern Africa and arguably the greatest hunters — it was the eland that was most prized and venerated. And I can understand why. Besides being the largest species of antelope on earth and, speaking from personal experience, one of the tastiest, the eland possesses many of the qualities that any true hunter holds dear.
They are deceptively agile and athletic but, perhaps most importantly, they are incredibly elusive. Close encounters with eland are extremely rare, for they see and hear you long before you
