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Hunting giraffe in South Africa starts with locating its spoor. It can be very difficult to place a proper shot after the animal is located. The hide is between 1.5 to 2 inches thick, and is time consuming to skin. To give a relative idea of the size of a giraffe hide, consider that just the back skin alone is larger than the entire hide of a dairy cow. Giraffe have no trophy value except...

The best time to hunt trophy eland is the early mornings. Eland graze late at night, only moving up out of the warmer valleys when the sun begins to warm the higher land. Around one hour before noon, they will start looking for a cool area to ...

Hunting trophy mountain nyala in Ethiopia is done in two basic ways. The first is a high mountain hunt in the heather where a hunter will spend most of his time climbing up, or sliding down the hills. The mountain nyala is more exposed and can be ...

A lot has been written about just what type/caliber/construction of firearm a client should take on an African Safari. A Professional Hunter's requirements aren't necessarily similar to a client's. When hunting game that can bite, scratch, or stomp, the PH needs a rifle that will stop an animal in a hurry.

African safaris are interesting; sometimes for reasons that have little, or nothing to do with the actual hunt. Usually these incidents are not written up in the latest hunting magazine,

About Elephants and Their Hunting

The status of elephant hunting in Africa today is mixed. As this is written, importation of ivory into the US is embargoed from Tanzania, Zimbabwe, Cameroon, and Mozambique.

It is now post Cecil the Lion and things are beginning to approach normal. What will be the effects of the world-wide outrage that was unleashed? Was it justified? And will it have long-tern effects on the future of lion hunting?

Once upon a time in Africa (yes, I know fairy tales start like this. Take it for what it's worth), I was young, impressionable, and bull gerbil stupid about Africa and African safaris. This would have been back about...

Whether you are planning your first safari, or your fifth safari, finding an outfitter that is right for you takes a bit of work and research. Probably the most important item you need to accomplish is to ask a lot of questions from people who have actually been to Africa, preferably more than once.

The US is now enforcing an existing law from 2008 that places additional requirements on hunters that are traveling with firearms outside of the US. In addition to an executed Form 4457, hunters must now acquire an EIN and make a declaration via the Automated Export System (AES) to receive an Internal Transaction Number (ITN)