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

Behind the lens

Let’s not wait another Year for the Lion

Thoughts for the issue…

Gears & Gadgets

Richard, Greetings from western Montana!

Hello AHG

From the Veld

Africans Fight Back in the WAR on HUNTING • As the war on hunting in Africa intensifies in the United Kingdom and North America, various anti-hunting and animal rights groups have stepped up their campaigns to fever pitch and new organisations have sprung up to raise funds for their cause. It is seldom noticed by the public and the media that very little, if any, of this money ever finds its way back to Africa and the rural people who live alongside wild, often dangerous and large animals. The anti-hunting campaigners use every trick in the book to make hunters look bad. They recruit celebrities, actors and artists to support their cause. They refer to African elephants and lions as 'Endangered species'. But several organisation in Africa and elsewhere have found their voices and are making the case for hunting as part of a rural wildlife economy that has many components.

Lichtenstein’s Hartebeest . • 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 Lichtenstein’s Hartebeest

The Troupe • “Like the black and white keys of a piano, how they are played and produce melodious verses” Kamanteh - Karen Blixen’s Somali servant in Out of Africa

Red Dirt, Black Death • “Bleh, blehh, blehhhh”… Hendrik’s head tracker Jimson spins around, catches my eye and points to his ear. I frantically nod my head, “Yes,” and try to catch Hendrik and Tim’s attention as they are walking about twenty yards away. Finally, my rising crescendo of a light whistle stops Hendrik in mid-stride. I point to my ear and then forward. About the same time we hear it again… “Bleh, blehh.” We all gather close and wait again for another sound. Hendrik and Jimson discuss. He says it is the wounded bull being gored and beaten up by some others. Another bellow echoes through the bush.

TWO BUFFALO in Limpopo… a hunt in the time of Corona • Hunting the African buffalo is not something that one does on a whim. Most buffalo hunters spend many years dreaming and reading before actually embarking on their first Cape buffalo hunt. So it was for me. I spent much time in the last decade reading accounts by authors represented in my treasured Africana library - including Capstick, Ruark, Burger, Boddington and Robertson - and I had expected to do a lot more of reading before actually getting the chance to hunt buffalo myself.

FACTS ABOUT THE SAFARI

A Hyena in Lion’s Clothing

Great Joy from Little Things… one couple’s pursuit of Africa’s Tiny Ten • “I see one!” Just like the great hunting tales of Hemingway and Ruark before us, our story begins with those fateful words. (These, by the way, are the second-best words any hunter can hear while in pursuit of his quarry.) And just like the famous hunters of old, we began the stalk.

The commonly agreed upon Tiny 10 are

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