When Mark Longhi Andreasen was offered the chance to stalk buffalo in Botswana in early 2022, he quickly agreed. The country’s president had reopened hunting in state-owned areas two years earlier following his election in 2018. At the same time, he granted hunting rights in several new concessions where bans had been in place since the 1960s. It was one of these freshly reopened hunting areas that Mark would visit.
Sightseeing
The region is blessed with a good population of big game — elephants, leopards, lions and buffalos — which offered the party a great sightseeing experience on the trip’s opening day. Mark had also spotted buffalos, but wanted to wait for his Blaser R8 Ruthenium with .375 calibre H&H mag to arrive before trying to take one of the enormous beasts. The South African authorities had, it seemed, decided to make things difficult by
