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Warthog and Warthog Hunting

The warthog is one of the five most popular hunting trophies in Africa. Read about warthog distribution, hunting tips, conservation status, trophy records, &c

With Hounds after Black Bear: A Conversation with an Outfitter

BookYourHunt / Hunting Tips and Techniques

Pursuit of black bears with packs of hounds is a classic American hunt. These days, you don’t get many opportunities

What on Earth is “Veld”?

Africa / Hunting Tips and Techniques

Veld, also spelt veldt, is a word from Afrikaans, the language of the Dutch colonists in South Africa. This word is used to describe a wide open grassland landscape.

Cast and Blast Tours: Five best options for those who are after the best of both worlds

BookYourHunt / New

There are times, places and species where some of the most sought-after kinds of fishing, and some of the most iconic types of hunting, can happen together, side by side, in the course of one and the same trip. Here are, in no particular order, five such combinations that, in our opinion, offer the best of both worlds.

Mountain Game of Leopard’s Valley. By James Reed

Hunting Stories / Africa

“I want to hunt in Africa, but I really don’t want to hunt game behind a fence.” This is a common statement I hear from hunters who are considering a trip to southern Africa for plains game. I used to feel the same way.

Wolf in Western Europe: Is There a Place for the Predator

BookYourHunt / Europe / Hunting is Conservation

Generally, the majority of the mostly urban European population is enthusiastic about the wolf. Among the anthropogenic and raffinate European environment, the wolf represents some fresh, primordial, savage wilderness: The Return of True Nature. But rural population, obviously, is not amused.

Hunting in Maine

Hunting Tips and Techniques / BookYourHunt

Maine was one of the first destinations for hunting and fishing tourism in the USA, and remains a great choice for residents of large East Coast urban areas even today.

The First Safari Book: Cornwallis Harris’s “Wild Sports of Southern Africa”

Hunting History / Hunting Stories / Africa

Many a page in the “Wild Sports of Southern Africa” may seem appaling for modern readers, both for the blatant racism and for hunting practices described. However, it is a document of an epoch, and inspired many later hunters and explorers. Here we reproduce an abstract from it.

Hunting 101: What do I need to start?

Hunting Tips and Techniques / BookYourHunt

Let’s make a couple of assumptions here. Statistically, you’re probably a middle-class professional from an urbanized place, such as New York, just bordering in age from “young” to “new young”. This is the group of people that usually struggle when they want to take up hunting,

2021 Heads Up: Draw Applications, OTC Tags and Preference Points for Most Popular Western States

BookYourHunt / News

The world of limited draw, application dates, preference points, and alternative over-the-counter options in the USA is so wide and various that a comprehensive review for any given year could easily fill a 1,000-page volume. In this post, we’ll give a brief overlook on a non-resident hunter’s prospects of hunting in the most popular states in the West.

The Road Less Travelled. The challenge of hunting Cape Buffalo in Mozambique

Hunting Stories / Africa

By the end of my hunt I had done everything I said I would not: crawling two and three hundred yards at a time with legs that had been cut to shreds by razor grass, wading through chest-deep hippo channels, grabbing razor grass to keep from falling into rivers teeming with crocodiles, and lying flat on the ground with only the grass between me and a charging buffalo.

Why are Eastern Turkey Numbers Declining (and can hunters do anything about it)?

BookYourHunt / Hunting is Conservation

The populations of the Eastern Turkey are on the decline across most of its range. Admittedly, this is nothing like