African Hunting Gazette

Our Objective is simple and clear - to promote hunting in Africa. And everything we do, focuses on this central mission. We believe that for the passionate hunters they are either hunting, or spend their time wishing they were hunting. This publication helps them get through that time when they are not actually in the bush. Our reader is more committed, more passionate and has tremendous interest in just about everything to do with the African Safari. From cover to cover the AHG brings you everything you need to know about hunting the great continent of Africa. From the southern tip of Africa to the northern reaches of Ethiopia, we go about pursuing our simple and unambiguous objective.

African Hunting Gazette

Can hunting learn from the SPRINGBOKS?

Investing in CONSERVATION Sobbe Conservancy, Namibia • Anti-hunting campaigners are always looking for reasons to denigrate hunters. A frequent allegation is that rural communities in Africa do not benefit from hunting activities on their land. This article tells the real story of a rural conservancy in Namibia that would not exist without the annual income from their hunting concession. The relatively small community-managed protected area hosts a remarkable array of biodiversity, and safeguards a vital and ancient corridor that elephants use to move between Botswana, Namibia and Zambia. Reprinted with permission from African Wildlife & Environment, Volume 84, 2023 the journal of the Wildlife and Environment Society of South Africa (WESSA) founded in 1926. See https://wessa.org.za/. Dr John Ledger.

The baobab BUFFALO • It is almost a cliché to say that hunting Cape Buffalo is special. For me it began, curiously enough, many years ago hunting whitewing dove in Mexico with Ralf. Ralf was a successful, greying guy who loved the hunting and fishing life, and who was fortunate enough to have safaried in Africa from the time he was twelve years old. After a hot day of shooting doves, he and I would sip icy margaritas and he would reminisce about hunts and the animals he had taken - hissing crocs, trumpeting elephants, roaring lions, hyenas, baboons, leopards, horned plains game of every sort, and Cape buffalo. To my youthful ears it sounded like high adventure and a test of personal courage. Ralf had been everywhere and stalked everything, but he always came back for buff because, he said, they live up to their reputation for exchanging human damage for a poorly placed shot, and for fighting to the end, especially when they knew who killed them!

TEN DAYS with a Rigby • This whole thing started in September 2021. I was at Afton, Richard Lendrum's lodge in Joburg. Richard was promoting a raffle in The African Hunting Gazette magazine, and the grand prize was a SSB Rigby Rifle in .416 Rigby! A proper buffalo rifle! I took a ticket and headed back to the States to start harvesting with my two sons on our farms, not giving a thought to the raffle. I never win.

Thorn bush BUFFALO • Embarking on another daring expedition to hunt the formidable Black Death Cape buffalo amid the thorny wilderness of Africa is an exhilarating and demanding endeavor. It has enraptured the spirits of countless adventurous hunters including myself.

My first AFRICAN SAFARI • Like many North American hunters before me, I had dreamed of visiting Africa to hunt across the vast African savanna, and to experience the expansive wilderness teeming with rich varieties of untamed game that we don't have back here. As a hunter residing in North Texas, it was at the DSC Convention in January 2023 that I was fortunate to meet Marina Lamprecht, owner of Hunters Namibia Safaris. Her description of Namibia and all its attributes convinced my wife and I that this was a hunting destination to dream of - so it was there that my Namibian safari adventure began.

The big bull SABLE in the Swamp • I stopped as my PH and tracker...