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

It’s about…YOU

Preparing for the future

News & Letters

COVID-19 Pandemic Wreaking Havoc on African Wildlife and Biodiversity • The ongoing pandemic of the COVID-19 coronavirus is having an extremely negative impact on wildlife and biodiversity conservation on the African continent. Restrictions on international travel have resulted in wildlife-based tourism and associated activities grinding to a halt and, with that, inflows of critical funding for the management and protection of wildlife areas and the biodiversity within them have dried up. Donors who have generously supported protected areas in Africa have seen their own financial resources dwindling as a result of the global economic downturn, and are having to cut their expenditure. A new publication provides the grim evidence of this unfolding crisis.

Oribi from “Game Animals of the World” • Based on Chris and Mathilde Stuart’s book, "Game Animals of the World," published by African Hunting Gazette, here’s everything hunters need to know about the Oribi

Annie’s Hunt

During a Drought…

Buffaloes – win some, lose some...

P for Paris • It was the year 2010 at the Dallas Safari Club convention when Paris Jenkins was in the booth every hour, tussling whether to book his one and only an expensive plains-game safari with me, or book a cheaper hunt elsewhere.

Shooting Sticks and a Wounded Leopard • We were in Tanzania in Masailand, with a view of the mountain god - pronounced ol doinyo le eng ai - or commonly called Lengai, in the background. The Toyota Land Cruiser was parked a few yards away. I had locked my binoculars scope onto a trophy Grant’s gazelle. Next to me, was my client, Mark, his .300 Winchester Mag loaded with soft points, and we were prepared for a long stalk. “Tafadhali kupa tu, (Swahili for “Please give me”) the shooting sticks.” The shooting sticks are an essential part of any hunt. “I left them at the stream where the vehicle was washed,” my driver Swai replied!

Was it a Unihorn? • It was a wonderful day. Bright azure sky, light breeze, and, best of all, we were travelling back into the mountains that formed one boundary of the 100,000+ acres of the Blaauwkrantz Safaris property. About an hour out of Port Elizabeth, South Africa, the terrain of the so-called ‘farm’ (it sure looked like a huge ranch to this born-and-reared Texan) became thick, lowland brush, open plains, rocky slopes and - my favorite habitat - wildly beautiful mountainous landscape.

Perseverance and Lucky Stars • It was July 2011. The bush was unseasonably thick, and hunting a little harder than usual. Obviously getting leopard baits out was the priority and so we got onto this immediately. While getting about this task we hunted buffalo and plainsgame.

On the Seventh Day… • My week in the Zambezi Valley was over way too fast. It was my second buffalo hunt; the first, in Dande in Zimbabwe, had ended with me not taking a buffalo, even though the experience was amazing.

Brief History of Rufunsa Game Management Area – Zambia

If there is Lead in the Air… • I was all scheduled to go on my...