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Planning Your First Hunt in Africa: Preparation

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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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?

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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?

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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

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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!

South Africa’s Top 5: Are you ready for the challenge?

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Impala, Warthog, Springbok, Kudu and Blesbuck are the Top 5 most popular animals to hunt in South Africa. Are you ready for the challenge of hunting them all?

Good Times, Bad Times: Springbok hunting in Gordon-Cumming’s “Five Years in South Africa” and today

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“The springbok is so termed by the colonists on account of its peculiar habit of springing or taking extraordinary bounds, rising to an incredible height in the air, when pursued”, wrote Roualeyn Gordon-Cumming in “Five Years of a Hunter’s Life in the Far Interior of South Africa”. The graceful antelope that has become the symbol of South Africa once covered the plains with its innumerable herds. Today it is mostly found on game farms, hunting concessions, national parks and protected areas, and the impressive “trek-bokken” is but a memory of times gone by. But are the good times of springbok hunting then or now?

Why Does the Zebra Have the Stripes?

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The skin of the zebra is one of the most popular trophies that hunters bring home from African safaris. Whether you use it as a carpet on the wall or a rug on the floor, or make a more original taxidermy out of it, the striking black-and-white skin can’t help but stir your curiosity. The old question “Is zebra white with black stripes or black with white stripes?” has been positively answered. Zebra embryos start out black (or brown), and the white color appears later, so zebra is black with white stripes. But why do they need the stripes in the first place?