Entries Tagged Africa

Members of the Hadza tribe in Tanzania demonstrate their skills with traditional self-bows and arrows, then try a modern compound bow for the first time.

Going on a South African hunting safari can be an incredible adventure, but it’s important to understand how to choose an outfitter, what to expect on the trip, and the total investment to budget effectively.

The author bowhunts exotics behind a high fence in Texas for the first time and comes away with a new appreciation for the challenge.

The bridge engineer showed courage. Still, the beasts of Tsavo would have had him. Credit extraordinary luck.

An experienced international hunter remembers his first trip to Africa — and the dangers lurking in unexpected places.

When lions eat poachers attempting to illegally kill rhinos in Africa, count me in with the group that see this as nothing short of karma.

A professional photographer gets the rare chance to trade his lens for stick-and-string and finds safari gold at the end of the kudu rainbow.

African plains game animals can be two to 10 time the size of a whitetail deer. Can today’s crossbows and broadheads handle a challenge of that size?

Zimbabwean authorities seem to have cooled off on pursuing the case against Minnesota dentist Walter Palmer, amid fears that extraditing the American bow hunter for killing Cecil the lion could hurt Zimbabwe's hunting business.

Zimbabwe has charged a man on whose land the well-known Cecil the lion was shot by American dentist Walter James Palmer in July.

An American doctor accused of killing a lion in an illegal hunt in Zimbabwe said that he had complied with all rules and regulations, filled out all the necessary paperwork and obtained the correct permits.

Theodore Roosevelt advocated “a happy mean” between hunting and preserving wildlife sanctuaries, foreshadowing today's debate on hunting that has become polarized as poaching and human encroachment have vastly reduced wildlife in sub-Saharan Africa.