African Hunting Gazette

A CAPE ELAND with Bow and Arrow

We hunted several locations in the past days of this trip and had some great encounters with giraffe, steenbok, zebra, nyala, kudu, warthog, wildebeest and more. One day we had an encounter with a one-and-a-half meter monitor lizard that found our rural accommodation very interesting and wanted to get into it. Another night we hear roaring lions. What a great experience. Luckily, they were not interested in us but rather in their kill, of a young giraffe, as we found out the next morning.

Essentially, we were looking for eland, and I

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