Around April 2019, my phone rang. After the usual bantering, my friend Wallie simply asked, “Are you available as backup gun on a buffalo hunt in November?” The answer was a nobrainer – a definite yes! Preparations started in a hurry, ranging from aeroplane tickets to export and import permits for our rifles. Wallie’s rifle of choice was a .378 Weatherby Magnum, and mine a .416 Rigby. Upon our arrival at OR Tambo International Airport, the only thing I had not done was get my “paperwork” (last will and testament) in order – a demand from my lovely wife. She would have discovered this small oversight, had I not returned after our encounters with Africa’s “Black Death”.
THE JOURNEY
Our destination was Zambia’s Luangwa Valley, specifically the area west of Musalangau (Lundu). Boarding the plane, Wallie casually informed me
