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 not just the Big Five

Africa's Energy Predicament • Readers will doubtless have been bombarded with media reports about the recent COP26 meeting in Glasgow, Scotland. This is the annual ‘Conference of the Parties’ (COP) to the ‘United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change’ (UNFCC). The Western World is seized with the notion that the planet faces an ‘Existential Threat’ because the use of fossil fuels by humans is causing an increase in temperature, which is turn is disrupting the earth's climate, resulting in more floods, droughts, hurricanes, tropical cyclones and generally unstable weather conditions. The main focus of COP26 was how to persuade the world's nations to conform to the so-called Paris Agreement, which seeks to keep the average temperature of the earth from rising more than 1.5°C above pre-industrial levels. The Paris Agreement is based on the rather quaint notion that Carbon Dioxide is the ‘Temperature Control Knob’ for planet earth. Neither Russia, China or India found COP26 to be sufficiently relevant for their Heads of State to attend.

Common (grey) duiker • 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 Common (Grey) Duiker

Ten for the Salt… • All my thoughts and ideas seem so simple in my mind. Like that small plumbing project: After six times to the hardware store, reality tends to smack you in the face! That's where the adventure begins.

Fury at Bay • It's funny how these things work out. I always tell my clients, “We will do everything humanly possible to get you your cat, but if it's meant to be, it will be.”

A Rigby Along the Kafue Hunting Zambian Plains Game with the Rigby .275 • I was not particularly happy with myself as I glanced quickly at the latest splash of bright red blood marking the trail of a waterbuck that should have been lying dead half a kilometer behind us. As I carefully moved a thorny branch out of the way, I agonized over the knowledge that I had pulled the shot to the right. A follow-up shot had not been remotely possible as the blocky and very tough animal dived into the brush at a dead run. This was the last day of a magical hunt on Mike Taylor's wonderful Takeri Reserve in Zambia, and the extraordinary opportunity to take a rare Crawshay defassa waterbuck had eluded us from day one.

We Just Need One Buffalo • Unfortunately, we were in a location where escape from the herd would have been very difficult, if not impossible. While other buffalo in the herd continued to move toward us, we realized they were starting to flank our position. We were being closed in with nowhere to go. The situation was quickly going from bad to worse.

Incredible Eyes and Deceptive Ears • Max's third hunt with Hotfire Safaris started off with a bang! Five days in, and we had a fantastic, buffalo bull, amazing eland, huge hartebeest, zebra, and a warthog of which trophy size is seldom seen in the Eastern Cape.

Hunting Africa's Dangerous 7 • George wanted to hunt the Dangerous 7 in one trip, across two countries, in five...