“africa”

Ernest Hemingway’s “Green Hills of Africa” is classic hunting literature. And while its pages have led many to follow the path of the hunter, the actual route of the safari Hemingway used as the basis for his story has, until now, remained elusive.

On August 13 I returned from a fabulous 10-day bowhunting trip on the Eastern Cape of South Africa with my friends, owner/PH Andrew Renton and PH Marius Potgieter of Kei River Safaris It was my second time with Kei River. Five years ago it was a plains game hunt extraordinaire. This time it would be the same, but with a bit of a twist. This time, we’d first target Cape buffalo with the bow.

If you compare them head-to-head, Africa offers more of everything a hunter wants. Let’s pit the Great White North against the Dark Continent point-by-point.

While the government of South Africa says its ban on rhino-horn trade will stop poaching and illegal trade, rhino owners and conservationists say the decades-old ban accomplishes the opposite.

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.

When you go camping, you're putting yourself smack dab in the middle of nature. When you go camping in Africa, that nature is often full of some of the world's largest, most dangerous critters. A few sightseers in Africa's Kgalagadi Transfrontier Park recently had the wake-up call of a lifetime, courtesy of a couple of the aforementioned critters.

Funds collected from hunting clients are used to fund anti-poaching efforts in Africa, as professional hunter and concessionaire Graham Cawood explains. In six years, Cawood’s anti-poaching efforts have collected numerous examples of poachers’ favorite tools—muzzleloaders, gin traps and snares—and led directly to an increase in game populations in his concession.

A safari with his 11-year-old son offers a father a chance to reflect on a bond that makes any hunt special.

With some imagination, flexibility and patience a hunter may be able to save a few bucks when planning an African hunt of a lifetime.