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Hunt, Not Harass: 3 reasons why put a suppressor on your rifle

Do silencers have a place in the hunting field? Peter Ruddle answers the most common questions about hunting with a sound moderated rifle.

Botswana’s Elephant Crisis

Africa / Hunting is Conservation

Botswana’s decision to lift the safari hunting ban has caused a lot of controversy. This post explores the reasons for human-elephant conflict in Botswana, and argues that trophy hunting is, at least at present, the optimal solution.

What Kudu Is That? (Cape, Southern Greater, or… ?)

Africa / BookYourHunt

Is the Kudu you just hunted really an Eastern Cape Kudu because of its location or was it a transplanted genetically engineered animal? When will DNA sampling become a prerequisite for anyone wishing to enter a trophy into the record book?

Planning Your First Hunt in Africa: Preparation

Africa / Hunting Tips and Techniques / BookYourHunt

In the final part of the series on planning your first hunt in Africa, Peter Ruddle covers perhaps the most important aspect of preparation: the hunter. What are the basic requirements to physical shape and rifle shooting skills?

Poaching: Understanding the Threat

Africa / BookYourHunt / Hunting is Conservation

Illegal harvest is a major threat for many species. This post examines the different motivations for people to become poachers, from hunting violations to subsistence, protest, status, problem animal, and organized poaching.

Planning Your First Hunt in Africa: Choice of Outfitter

BookYourHunt / Africa

The choice of Outfitter can really make or break your African hunt. After you have made a shortlist of suitable candidates you need to see who fits your profile and offers the closest experience in satisfying your expectations.

Meat Hunts

Africa / BookYourHunt

Meat! This is the most important result of any hunt. In fact, every hunt is a meat hunt: the animals that are harvested during a ‘trophy’ hunt are always utilized, one way or another. This post explains what is “meat hunt” from the point of view of the hunting industry.

Planning Your First Hunt in Africa: Packing Up

Africa / BookYourHunt

Hunting in Africa, for most people, involves a lengthy intercontinental trip. After you have decided on the details of your

Planning Your First Hunt in Africa: Travel

Africa / BookYourHunt

How do you prepare for your first African hunt? In part 2 of the series of posts dedicated to this issue, Peter Ruddle speaks about travel.

Planning Your First Hunt in Africa: Where to go?

Africa / BookYourHunt

Planning your first African safari? You’re probably have 1001 questions about what animals to hunt, in what country, what outfitter to select, and what price is good. This post will cover the essentials in making the right choice.

INTERNATIONAL vs LOCAL: Why do international hunters pay more to hunt than local hunters?

Africa / BookYourHunt

In the USA, as an out of state hunter or fisherman, you pay a higher license fee than a local

BookYourHunt Africa: Opening New Horizons

New / Africa / BookYourHunt

Hunting on the southern end of the African continent has always been about moving forward to new horizons: long treks to uncharted areas in ox-drawn wagons in the XVI-XIX centuries; creating flourishing hunting grounds on lands that seemed to be hopelessly ‘civilized’ in the XXth. Now, as the African hunting industry breaks into the digital age, BookYourHunt.com is moving on to create a dedicated African office. Powered by exceptionally competent staff, with immense hands-on experience and local knowledge, it will help you find the best and most affordable hunting opportunities – including some you never knew existed!