African Hunting Gazette

TWO BUFFALO in Limpopo… a hunt in the time of Corona

AS chance would have it, I unexpectedly found myself having both time and opportunity to organize a safari for myself in the middle of the pandemic that has plagued our world this year. The question of what to hunt was not really a question at all. I had previously hunted plains game in Namibia twice, first in the red mountains of southern Namibia, and some years after in the green bush of the north. These safaris were absolutely amazing, but, as many others before me have experienced, they did nothing to satisfy my appetite for hunting in Africa. They only increased my addiction and made me realize that my next visit to Africa would have to involve big-game hunting.

When in the Spring I realized that I would be able to go on a hunting trip in the late fall, it was already evident that 2020 was by no means going

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