African Hunting Gazette

Our Objective is simple and clear - to promote hunting in Africa. And everything we do, focuses on this central mission. We believe that for the passionate hunters they are either hunting, or spend their time wishing they were hunting. This publication helps them get through that time when they are not actually in the bush. Our reader is more committed, more passionate and has tremendous interest in just about everything to do with the African Safari. From cover to cover the AHG brings you everything you need to know about hunting the great continent of Africa. From the southern tip of Africa to the northern reaches of Ethiopia, we go about pursuing our simple and unambiguous objective.

African Hunting Gazette

TENACITY - A survival trait

South Africa Sets Modest CITES Hunting Trophy Quotas • South African politics has been rather volatile over the past year, as the African National Congress, which had been running the country for 33 years, was forced into a coalition ‘Government of National Unity’ with its strongest opposition, the Democratic Alliance. The Ministry of Forestry, Fisheries and the Environment (DFFE) was one of the Cabinet seats allocated to the DA. Their appointed Minister, Dion George, was apparently captured by animal rights- and anti-hunting lobbyists and delayed setting of CITES export quotas for hunting trophies.

Rigby buffalo • Óne of the first things you would have seen as you walked into my parents’ house was a shoulder mount buffalo. Underneath it was an old black and white photo of a few hundred buffalo with a big dust cloud hanging above them. I think that, more than anything, instilled this dream into a little kid of one day going on such an adventure. That was my dad’s adventure into Botswana in the late 1970s.

KIDEPO TO KAFU: A Birthday Safari in Uganda • My traveling bug adventure began with my desire to hunt the far reaches of Africa. At the 2025 SCI show I spoke to my longtime friend and PH Bertus Gerhardt of Dumukwa Safaris from South Africa and told him I wanted to hunt East Africa and specifically a sitatunga. He suggested Uganda and knew the founder of Uganda Wildlife Safaris (UWS), Christian Weth. We met Christian at his booth, and he detailed the opportunities available.

MORE THAN A HUNT: My First African Safari • "Africa changes a hunter." I'd heard that saying for years, but never fully understood it. After spending nearly a lifetime hunting and fishing across North America, I considered myself fortunate. I'd chased whitetails through hardwood ridges, called waterfowl into frozen decoys, pursued upland birds behind good dogs, hunted big game from the eastern hardwoods to the Rocky Mountains, and fished waters stretching from the Florida Keys to Alaska. Every trip had created memories, friendships, and stories that would last a lifetime.

SIXTY YEARS in the Making • There’s a particular kind of pull that settles into a man somewhere in his late fifties, not a midlife itch, but something quieter and more deliberate. A reckoning with time. My best friend John and I felt it the same way, in the same season of our lives, as we watched sixty approach the horizon like weather you can see coming from a long way off.

The GOOD, the MEDIOCRE and the downright AWFUL … • I realize that hunting in Africa can be very different from hunting in other parts of the world. There is the large selection of species to hunt, paying trophy fees rather than license fees for most species, and not always having the outfitter for your guide.

The Day the DREAM BECAME REAL

A Moment EARNED • After two safaris and twelve days of hunting, I still hadn’t released an arrow at an impala. We’d already blown two stalks before 9:00 that morning. Now we sat pinned down beneath the watchful eyes of an old impala ram just 40 yards away. Every minute that passed made the situation more uncomfortable....