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Flying with Your Rifle: A Step-by-Step Guide

Hunting Tips and Techniques / Hunting 101

A step by step guide to flying with your rifle from preparing your paperwork to going through the customs.

Hunting 101: Travel With Your Rifle or Rent from an Outfitter?

Hunting Tips and Techniques / Hunting 101

A common dilemma when planning a hunting trip is rely on the confidence of using your own gun or simplify travel by renting from your outfitter. This guide will help you make the right choice.

1001 Questions to Ask Before Booking a Hunt in Africa: Part 2

Africa / Hunting Tips and Techniques

This entry is part 2 of 4 in the series 1001 Questions about Hunting in Africa

We’re continuing our “1001 Questions to Ask Before Booking a Hunt in Africa” (click here for Part 1). Each question comes with an answer where we can give it, or with tips re: why you should ask it, what information to look for, and where to get it. This part deals with what you should bring, including the essential – your weapons.

Lions and Lion Lands. From “The Book of the Lion”, 1913, by Sir Alfred E. Pease

Africa / Hunting History / Hunting Stories

In my youth I believed myself so hemmed in by circumstances and duties that I thought I should never break through such barriers into the real world beyond. Conventionalities which then looked like a granite wall I have discovered to be a delusion. I have learnt that human beings do not always understand the language in which duty calls, and that by the use of a little force a hole can be made through the thorny zariba of circumstances by which the poor, impounded creature, whether peasant or potentate, may escape to taste of life.

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.

Americans and Travel to South Africa

Uncategorized / Africa / News

America is still the Land of the Free. Many nations close or limit travel opportunities to their citizens these days.

clouds, rainbow and wide open spaces of Wyoming

Wilderness, Limited Draw, and Bipolar Weather: What you need to know about hunting in Wyoming

Hunting Tips and Techniques / BookYourHunt

Non-resident hunting in Wyoming is as bipolar as the state’s weather: large tracts of public land wilderness and healthy herds of elk, cougar, bear, deer and antelope on the one hand, no OTC tags and a requirement to hire a licensed guide on the other. This blog will provide the most essential information for planning your hunt in Wyoming.

COVID-19 and the hunting industry

BookYourHunt

With hundreds of outfitters from all over the globe who present their hunts on the online marketplace, BookYourHunt.com has a finger on the pulse of almost every hunting destination. This is our view on the COVID-19/Coronavirus situation.

A Tip or Two. By Alex McDonald

BookYourHunt / Africa / Hunting Tips and Techniques

Tipping during a hunting safari is a delicate question that is often a subject of heated discussions. Having been a client myself, been present during tipping in other outfitters operations, as well as the outfitter and PH in charge of the safaris, I have compiled a baseline overview of the discussion which may help you during your upcoming safari in Africa

BookYourHunt.com Gear List: 2. Your African Kit

Africa / Hunting Tips and Techniques / BookYourHunt

Peter Ruddle gives a comprehensive list of what to pack for your African safari – and where to keep each item, during travel and while hunting.

Yucatan: Adventure in the Land of the Maya

Hunting Tips and Techniques / BookYourHunt

The cradle of the Maya civilization, the Yucatan peninsula in Mexico, is full of exotic plants, big, brightly colored birds and small, secretive animals that dwell under the canopy of the rainforest. A trip to the Yucatan is more than a hunt, it’s an adventure!

Ruins of an ancient abandoned fortress in Tajikistan

To the Roots of Mountain Hunting: Part II

Hunting Stories / BookYourHunt

Frank Zitz had his reservations before going Ibex hunting with Hunting&Conservation Alliance of Tajikistan. It proved to be a fantastic trip, with great hospitality, professional team, outstanding insights into local culture, and above all great hunting, with healthy herd of mountain game ensured by trophy hunting funded conservation.