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

Zululand – a South African jewel

UK PARLIAMENT • Supports Bill to Ban Hunting Trophy Imports

THE BRACHIAL PLEXUS A NEGLECTED SHOT: • Nervous breakdown for buffalo

ARE CAPE BUFFALO REALLY THAT DANGEROUS? • We've all heard the stories. The maniacal, charging buffalo bearing down on the quivering client as our hero, the professional hunter, brings his mighty double rifle to bear, ending the chaos with a well-placed shot, or worse - getting killed in the process.

Hunting the Big Little Buck • “He's an absolute monster,” said PH Pete matter-of-factly, “and he lives on this big plateau.”

Our 139- Mile Elephant Hunt

Trip Rifle • Remember the adage, “Beware the man with one gun, he knows how to use it.” Well, for regular hunting, I am just about the opposite. I love rifles and have accumulated a few. From a Civil War carbine to a modern rifle with a cutting-edge scope, if I own it, I am going hunt with it—not just stick it on a wall or in the back of the gun safe to collect dust. My job is to allow them to fulfill their purpose—to be used in the field. Where I hunt here in Texas, I am not going to see a B& C whitetail. I am going to see does and pigs, so handicapping myself with an old open-sighted lever rifle or Trapdoor for a weekend is not likely to cost me an entry in the record books, but is going to provide me with a challenge, and tremendous satisfaction when successful. Using only one rifle all the time is boring, and an insult to all the other rifles out there. All that changes when I go on a trip.

The Triple Deuce Safari

A Spot of DANGER

SPRINGBOK SLAM with Bow and Arrow • Once again, the “Virus Africanus” brought me back to the Dark Continent - back to South Africa. I had been lucky to take my first common springbok with bow and arrow in 2007, in the south of Namibia. On this trip, in August 2017, I was after white, copper, and black springbok, and I was hunting in South Africa with my friend and PH Izak Vos.

DIVERSITY is the Name of the Game

A close encounter with a lion • This account of a close encounter with a lion near the Limpopo River in 1845, appears to have been written by William Oswell, a former big-game hunter, three years before his death. Groombridge, 7 July 1890.

The Elephant in the Room at Pensbury Place • When hunting big, dangerous animals, there is a convincing argument to be made that bigger is better, and few rifles come bigger than the .600 Nitro Express: very few.

Bell and his small bores: Stubborn resolve or logical choice? • It's nearly 70 years since W.M.D. Bell left this world, but I do wonder if his opinions on rifle and caliber selection were well reasoned, especially for the time he lived. He certainly wasn't afraid of voicing an adversarial view, but was there more to it than stubborn Scottish resolve and a desire to make his own path?

95 Years Young • “Age has nothing to do with it” … How many times have we heard that in our lives?

Vintage double rifles pitfalls to avoid PART II-THE REST OF THE BITS • In the previous instalment, we looked at what to look out for when it...