“Tag: Plains Game”

A look at the top five plains-game species that provide the most amount of fun for your trophy fee.

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.

While shot-placement may seem universal, it is actually oddly specific not just to individual game, but to game of specific geographic localities. Read on for some tips on where to place that shot when hunting African plains game.

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.

Let’s take a look at some of the best bullets for African plains game on the market.

Professional hunter Sean Holloway guides Brant Brittmann of Illinois to his first-ever blue wildebeest, waterbuck, eland, red hartebeest, black wildebeest, warthog and springbok in this latest episode of our web-exclusive “African Experience” video series.

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.

Here are five reasons why you need to book an African plains game hunt now.

An African safari can be one of the highlights of any hunter’s career. So you'll want to take strides to make sure you don't screw it up. Here's what a few Professional Hunters have to say about preparing for the Dark Continent.