HOW DO you learn to hunt? If you are lucky like me, then you may have had a parent, relative or friend who took you out from an early age and taught you the basics of firearm safety and handling, species identification, stalking and how to move silently through the bush.
However, the best – and hardest – lessons are those you learn for yourself.
My father and I were fortunate to have permission to hunt on a well-managed farm in the Umgusa Valley about 20km north-west of Bulawayo in Zimbabwe. The bush was a mixture of thornveld, grassland and mopane, and the Umgusa River flowed
