He had mentioned something about “the monster” when he picked me up at the airport in late July. One of Gerard’s previous hunters told me about the size of this leopard’s track and his nickname, “the monster,” but it did not sink in until I had seen numerous other large male leopards’ tracks as I stood over this one. Now I knew what they were talking about. I had booked a ten-day leopard hunt in Namibia and a five-day Cape buffalo hunt in Mozambique with Gerard Erasmus, of Sumsare (Erasmus spelled backward) Safaris, and felt quite at peace with the…