African Hunting Gazette

For decades our industry has faced, and continues to face, headwinds. Social media, the ‘Antis’, CITES and USFW regulations, industry’s infighting, controversies about color variants and captive-bred lions - you name it. Yet, despite all this - Afric

In August of 2002 I first visited the Afton House in Johannesburg SA. The place was recommended by a PH who is no longer in the industry. I was fortunate enough to stay several times during my six weeks and three-country hunt. I was able to take all

Held every three years, this time the 19th Conference of the Parties (CoP 19) will be in Panama City from 14 to 25 November 2022. While only the governments of the countries that are Parties to the Convention are allowed to vote on proposals, non-par

The planning and build-up were done, but the anticipation was heightened when we met Max at Johannesburg airport and set off on the road trip to Botswana. We were surprised during our drive to the camp to see the Kalahari transformed into a sea of lo

It was my last hunting day of a week-long hunt with Jamy Traut Safaris, organized by the folks at Federal Ammunition and Bushnell Optics, in order to test some of their new products, and what a week it was. In addition to representatives from the res

It was a long drive to get to this paradise, but it was well worth the trip. We arrived as day was breaking, cascading sunshine across the rolling hills. We had barely got started when we saw a large nyala working his way up a dry riverbed. I had see

After a four-hour truck ride over some rough roads, we arrived at camp shortly after dark. The camp is spectacular with private chalets and a communal gathering area open to the night air for meals and campfire talks. It was a grand reunion with my P

Asitatunga hunt became my primary goal. Most African hunters have a passion for spiral horns and as my collection already included nyala, eland, greater kudu, lesser kudu, and bushbuck, I confirmed my final species list as kob, topi and sitatunga and

“Oh, that middle zebra,” I thought. Jambo, the tracker, always aware of the client’s focus and abilities - or lack thereof - had seen from his position behind my right shoulder that I was about to shoot the wrong animal. Refocusing on the new shoulde

I had got into the area a few days earlier to get some baits up, and we were basing ourselves on the Ponty Houseboat, to check out the fishing. I was hunting Chete a lot at that time, so my bait sites were all set up and ready. Just needed to add imp

I met professional hunter Richard Lemmer and his wife Ruth, owners of Safari Afrika in Potgietersrus, South Africa at the DSC Convention in 2022, and booked and planned a nighttime predator hunt with him for early May 2022. We planned to hunt during

In the heart of, and largely surrounded by the Julius Nyerere National Park, is the iconic hunting ground of the Selous Game Reserve, for decades a hunting mecca. Coming in to land we could see the hydro-electric power project and dam under construct

Fast forward a year, to South Africa with my wife, Greeta, and long-time hunting partner, Bruce. After a few days in the Limpopo Province, attempting to add to my Tiny 10 goal by hunting klipspringer and duiker, then seeing the biggest kudu I’ve ever

It was during these hot months that, while baiting hyenas, I had a sounder of bushpigs come onto the bait, completely (if you’ll excuse the pun) pigging out on the maggots that had taken to the decaying meat. It was an easy meal for them in a time wh

I think it is natural for a hunter to start hunting trophy animals at some point in his life. For many, a trophy is that animal with the longest horns and the one that scores big in SCI or Rowland Ward. I have always had an appreciation for those ani

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 ru

South Africa is a sportsman’s dream: not only is it bursting with some of the most exciting hunting in the world, but when flying from Europe, there’s no jetlag. Less well-known are the fantastic opportunities for wingshooting, notably red-eyed doves

Mention the name Johan Calitz in safari circles and one image immediately springs to mind— elephants. Rightfully so, of course, as Johan is recognized as one of the most accomplished elephant hunters alive today. How many trophy tuskers to which he a

A company steeped in gunmaking heritage and with a history reaching back to 1775, John Rigby & Co. was more recently languishing in relative obscurity until its revival in 2013. This renaissance is in no small part due to the determination of Rigby’s

The side-by-side double rifle as we know it came about as a result of the search for a dangerous-game rifle that could discharge two shots in succession as quickly as the second trigger could be pulled and then reloaded quickly again to provide addit

"Shot it with this.” he said. The rifle looked as weathered as the kudu horns, cracked and checked after decades in the sun. They weren’t big horns. It wasn’t a big rifle. “Dead with one bullet,” he added. Said bullet had been a 40-grain lead missile

Adroda Safaris provides clients with the opportunity to hunt across southern Africa in large, diverse habitats and freerange concessions offering true fair-chase hunting. Dangerous game, plains game and speciality species are hunted, often in exclusi