Amazing, breath-taking, beyond beautiful; the animal before us deserved each of those descriptors, and more.

OK, so I’ll admit being a bit skeptical about Nyalas causing declines in Coutada 11’s Chobe Bushbuck populations.

The scrabbling of the Cheetah’s non-retractable claws on the floor of the transport crate and the thumping of the animal’s heavy body into the sides of the container made me wince.

Just the day before, we had visited the local clinic, a tidy, clean, white stucco building run by the clinician, Mr. Quisito.

As Ivan Carter spelled out to me in an interview: “Hungry stomachs have no ears.” He meant that when people are hungry, they do not have the capacity to see the need to restore and conserve ecosystems.

As we wandered into and around the wooden cooking shelter, we skirted plates and bowls heaped with the cooked, unpolished rice.

The first of my two TEDx presentations is now available. The topic discussed is conservation-through-trophy hunting.

As we slowly made our way in the old, rattly Land Cruiser, I glanced at our guide for the morning.

The tiny fuzzball, looked at us with its mouse-like eyes, framed by its round, even more mouse-like ears.

Entering the forested area required shoving through a dense hedge of thorn-laden bushes. The further I went toward the din of howling hounds, whistling handlers, and roaring leopards, the denser it became.

On a recent Safari to Namibia, I took a very nice leopard. The story about this hunt appeared in the 2021 September/October Issue of Sports Afield.

Man, is this review of Maven’s B.1 binocular overdue. It was originally planned for December 2020 after a trip to Mozambique…and then there was some crap about a virus.

My English friends refer to this type of behavior as “stating the bleeding obvious”. It’s one of my coping mechanisms during stressful situations.

As the panic started to build, my inner conversation was simply, “What is wrong with me?!”

"You have just taken one of the Tiny 10," said Arnold. "What is that?" I asked with disinterest.

Intriguingly, Jamy Traut admitted that a good bit of his motivation for being a PH came from reading the writings of people like Robert Ruark and Harry Selby.

“You can hunt anything in North America with this rifle.” With those words, my Dad gave me his lovely custom-built, .35 Whelen Improved rifle.

When I caught up (virtually) with Ivan Carter, he had been [forced] quarantining for several weeks in a friend’s vacation home near a South African Beach.