Hunting

BY KOOS BARNARD MANY modern products make hunting more enjoyable and contribute to success. Binoculars and rangefinders fall into that category; I regard a binocular an […]

A traditional African folktale about the tsessebe tells how he arrived late when the creator was dishing out different adornments to the various animals – tusks, […]

If you’ve not hunted bushbuck before you have been missing out. These animals can be extremely tough to hunt, as I found out some years ago […]

The clatter of hooves on stony ground suddenly alerted the two hunters. Excitedly pointing a finger, the younger rifleman exclaimed, “There they are!” As the small […]

Africa is home to a wide variety of antelope species, some of which are strikingly beautiful while others are majestic in size and appearance. The Alcelaphus […]

“Take my breath away…” THE greywing partridge has long been extolled with superlatives ranging from the Crown Prince to the crème de la crème of Africa’s […]

The sun had been up for thirty minutes when we met the rest of the shooting party between Delmas and Kendall in Mpumalanga. The sunlight struggled […]

Gamebird hunting as a sport began with falconry, thousands of years ago. The first sporting guns were massively heavy, slow-firing matchlocks, so gamebirds were shot on […]

The 55 000 hectare Pilanesberg National Park, also known as the Pilanesberg Game Reserve, is a wildlife conservation area situated in our North West province and […]

ON SAFARIS in wilderness areas in Africa, the indigenous local tracker is the most important element for success. Many PHs guiding foreign clients are also competent […]

While chatting to some newly licenced professional hunters at the recent PHASA conference, I became aware of their main concern – the non-availability of dangerous game […]

by HILTON HAMANN THE SHOTGUN is one of the most versatile firearms a hunter can own. Although a short-range weapon, when appropriately loaded, it can take […]