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1001 Questions to Ask Before Booking a Hunt in Africa: Part 3

This entry is part 3 of 4 in the series 1001 Questions about Hunting in Africa

By Peter Ruddle This is the third post in our “1001 Questions”. Part 1 covered general questions of safari booking,

Elk Hunting Tips from Guides and Outfitters

Success of a guided hunt depends on the hunter as much as on the guide: you must, at the very least, bring the right stuff, get your shot right, but above all adopt the proper attitude. We surveyed our outfitters and here are the tips to do just that

Springbuck Hunting in Southern Africa

Hunting Tips and Techniques / Africa

Springbuck is a strikingly marked, sleek, graceful, agile gazelle-like antelope and once the national emblem of South Africa; however, today it is only recognised as the name and logo for the national rugby team. The species name was translated from the Afrikaans word “Springbok”, which means “jumping buck”. The name was derived from its unique behavioural trait known as pronking: a leap in the air with an arched back and stiff legs.

Long-Distance Shooting: An African Professional Hunter’s Perspective

Africa / Hunting Tips and Techniques

It is very important to establish a hunter’s maximum ethical hunting range (the distance at which they can confidently hit the target) and take this experience to the field. Recognising your shooting ability and remaining within your bounds are the key ingredient to confident shooting whether it be short or long-range

Caucasian Tur and Its Hunting

Hunting Tips and Techniques / Europe

Can’t decide whether you want to hunt mountain sheep or mountain goat? Hunt the Tur, it’s both! Jokes aside, while biological classification refers the Caucasian Tur to genus Capra, for the Ovis Club a Tur trophy counts towards both Ovis and Capra slams.

Deer Hunting in Arizona

Hunting Tips and Techniques / BookYourHunt

Wide open spaces, often accompanied by scorching heat, but sometimes unexpectedly cold. Grey ghosts lurking in the bush, enormous cat pawprints you may see on the dust of the roads. Spot-and-stalk hunts, or waiting in a bling over a water hole or salt lick. Doesn’t this remind you, at least a little bit, of Africa? But whether you think about deer hunting in Arizona as an exotic or All-American hunt, it’s one of the hunts that should be on every deer hunter’s bucket list.

Warthog and Warthog Hunting

Africa / Hunting Tips and Techniques / BookYourHunt

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

Hunting Tips and Techniques / BookYourHunt

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”?

Hunting Tips and Techniques / Africa

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.

Hunting 101: What do I need to start?

BookYourHunt / Hunting Tips and Techniques

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,

Blesbok and Blesbok Hunting

BookYourHunt / Africa / Hunting Tips and Techniques

Blesbok, or Blesbuck, is one of the most popular antelopes with hunters in South Africa. However, harvesting this dweller of open spaces is not easy.

A 44 Magnum owned by one of the survey respondents

Handguns in the Backcountry: What, when, and why professional guides carry, and should you?

Hunting Tips and Techniques / BookYourHunt

100% of hunting guides who responded to our survey find a handgun useful for their guiding duties. More than half carry a pistol wherever and whenever they legally can. About a third said they carry a handgun in the course of their guiding duties only when they are not carrying a long arm, e.g. during archery hunts or fishing, and a tiny minority packs a handgun “usually, but not always”.