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Twist Rate: How Hornady's 7mm PRC Fared in Africa

After a nine-year hiatus and a pandemic, the author travels to Africa with Hornady’s sizzling 7mm PRC in search of spiral-horned antelope.

Behind the Bullet: .340 Weatherby Magnum

If the .338 Winchester Magnum puts an exclamation point on the end of the hunting sentence, the .340 Weatherby Magnum highlights and italicizes the paragraph. After all, that’s what the Weatherby cartridges were designed to do, and the .340 Weatherby does it well.

Top 10 Hunting Cartridges of the Past 10 Years

Here’s a look at the best new hunting rounds introduced in the last ten years.

African Game Meat: What Happens After the Shot?

Contributor Philip Massaro discusses common misconceptions about what happens to the meat from African trophies harvested by hunters. We assure you, nothing goes to waste in Africa, especially not meat.

Bullets for African Plains Game

You’ve probably heard that African dangerous game can absorb five hits from an Abrams tank and keep on charging. You’ve probably heard that kudu, eland, wildebeest and even impala are so tough from evading lions and leopards they’ll soak up bullets that would floor a North American brown bear. Nonsense.

Behind the Bullet: .404 Jeffery

Why would a dangerous game hunter choose a .404 Jeffery over a .416 or a .375 H&H? Well, because it’s really cool. Let Philip Massaro explain.

Use a Small Enough Gun

Weighing as little as 10 pounds, southern Africa’s often overlooked miniature antelope species require just as much consideration over caliber as their larger plains-game counterparts.

Bullet Bio: Nosler AccuBond

A little more than a decade ago, Nosler set out to combine the characteristics of its famous Partition with the accuracy of its Ballistic Tip offerings. The result became the AccuBond.

Stranded in the Okavango Swamps

Roaring lions, monster crocs, blood-sucking leeches and some bush-league solutions to get out of a jam are all part of being stuck in Africa.

Hunting the Black Bulls of Mozambique

A safari for Cape buffalo and sable may have its "dark" side, but this opportunity is surely one of the brightest combo hunts in present-day Africa.

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