African Hunting Gazette

Gold - level Impala?

Arnold stopped him with a bleat

Later, I understood that my apathy was misplaced, but the photos of southern impala rams I had seen showed horns that were so…well…small and unimposing compared to those of animals from further north. As a biologist and a hunter, I know it is unfair to compare apples with oranges - the animals further north obviously had different genetic and ecological constraints that caused the horn sizes, but I was flat unimpressed by the southern form.

Arnold responded to my disdainful remark and attitude by turning his head slightly, giving me a stink-eye and

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