On safari in South Africa, the author’s plan for plains game—to have no plan at all—couldn’t have worked better. The plan for Cape buffalo, well, that’s another story.
Honored American Veterans Afield (HAVA) had the privilege of hosting retired/disabled Marine veteran Tray Ardese on a Bison hunt, at the Dismal River Club in Nebraska.
Big-bore lever-action rifles have the ammo capacity, dependability and speed to be considered ideal African dangerous-game rifles, as long as you do your part.
Zimbabwe’s Sengwa River may have dried up, but a Cape buffalo hunt along its banks provides meat to quell rumors that the game populations of the Chirisa Safari Area have dried up along with it.
While Africa’s Cape buffalo may be more infamous, the wide-horned bulls of Australia’s Arnhem Land are no less of a force to me reckoned with. Realizing that is simple, especially when the locals—and history—provide the lesson.