Living the Dream

A quest for a very old dagga boy in the Zambezi Valley.

A buffalo hunt should be a true wilderness experience.

Malaria: One Hunter’s Experience

If you hunt in Africa, you have to think about malaria.

Two weeks after returning from a safari in Zimbabwe, I was suddenly hit with a severe headache, racking chills, and a fever that reached 104 degrees within two hours:

Malaria: What You Need to Know

Here’s how to minimize your risk of contracting this disease while on safari.

Because malaria is rare in the United States, we don’t hear a lot about it, save for periodic media sound bites that are largely negative and often unsettling. The news is usually bad news.

Marble Mines and Mountain Zebras

In pursuit of a striped stallion in the rocky highlands of the Namib Desert. At the farthest edge of the Namib Desert is a land that seems caught in a different time. Game roams free. Water is scarce. In this forsaken place, some of the first Bushmen, Ovambo, Kavango, Wambu, and Herero peoples left their […]

Masailand Safari

A COVID-era adventure in Tanzania.

Traveling hunters are crucial to international conservation.

Meat, Mounts, and Management

We may hang a head on our wall, but that does not mean we left the meat behind.
Trophy hunting does not mean what many people think it means.

Memories of HATARI!: An Interview with Jan Oelofse

A chat with the man who handled elephants, lions, and cheetahs during the filming of the 1962 classic movie starring John Wayne.

Of the cast and crew, both human and animal, who assembled half a century ago in east Africa to make the iconic safari movie Hatari!, only a few are still around. Star John Wayne, director Howard Hawks, and screenwriter Leigh Brackett all died more than 30 years

Mental Fortitude: A Party in Pakistan

Sometimes it’s the hardships and challenges we experience on hunting trips that make our adventures truly memorable.

If you’re going to hunt in some of the world’s most remote places, you’d better be prepared for some unexpected adventures. Being a hunter with a restless spirit, I can’t seem to get enough of the both the joys and hardships that come with hunting the world’s far-flung regions.