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The Big Cat That Is So Hard To See: Puma and Puma Hunting

Hunting 101 / Game Animals

Mountain lion hunting guide: where to hunt puma, best seasons, hunt methods, difficulty, and what to know before booking a cougar hunt.

The Prince with Palmated Crown: Fallow Deer and Fallow Deer Hunting

Hunting 101 / Hunting Tips and Techniques

The prince of European forests that humans loved so much they introduced it anywhere from Britain to New Zealand: Meet the fallow deer.

The King of Mountain Game: Ibex and Ibex Hunting

Asia / Hunting 101

What is greyish or brownish in color, has horizontal pupils, a short tail, long, usually scimitar-shaped horns, stands on hooves that seem to glue to rocks and stones, and makes some hunters spend four to five figures for a chance to spend a few days in some of the most inhospitable ranges? Meet the ibex.

Know Your Zebra: A quick guide to Africa’s striped wonder

Africa

What you need to know about zebra: basic facts, subspecies, their characteristics, habits, and distribution.

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

Africa / BookYourHunt / Hunting History

“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?

Hunting Tips and Techniques / BookYourHunt / Africa

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?

Wolverine: The Real Superhero

Hunting Tips and Techniques / BookYourHunt

A wolverine is an awesome creature. Its reputation for badassness may be overestimated, but it more than makes up for that with its intelligence, off-road capacity, and adaptation. Read about wolverine life story, distribution, habits and hunting in our blog story.

Big Dog and Little Dog: Grey Wolf and Coyote

Hunting Tips and Techniques / BookYourHunt

This post covers coyote and wolf as hunting quarry – how differences in where they live, what they hunt, etc. influence the way people see them, how they hunt coyotes and wolves, what best hunting methods for coyote and wolf are there, and how much is the price for wolf or coyote guided hunts.

Bugle: The Call of the Elk

Hunting Tips and Techniques / BookYourHunt

Elk bugle! The sound of the American wapiti, or elk, carries far over the forests and mountains of America. The

Pronghorn: The Awesome Non-Antelope

Hunting Tips and Techniques / BookYourHunt

Who is the second fastest land mammal on Earth? Who looks like an antelope on the outside, but is closer to goats on the inside? Who can see like a human with 8x binoculars? Read this post to learn more amazing facts about the pronghorn!