Becky Johnston and I followed Professional Hunter Chris Steyn up out of the river swamp near Landela Lodge. A large…
Browsing: Plains Game
My personal quest for the Lord Derby began when I was thirteen years old and my father came back from…
We have the tendency to take things for granted usually for about as long as we have them. It is…
Having recently completed a free-lance safari for a local hunter/landowner in the Gwaai Valley, I was spending my ‘down time’ with my good friend Stuart Campbell on his Lion Ranch. He asked me to travel to Hwange town to collect some extra groceries, in preparation for the imminent arrival of a small group of South African visitors. Late that afternoon the guests arrived and one of them, an Air Steward with South African Airways expressed his eagerness to ‘shoot something’.
I am often asked what caliber rifle to take on an African plains game hunt. My response is usually, “What do you have in your gun case now”? The reason I ask that is because almost everyone already has a .270 Winchester, .30-06 Springfield, etc.
The recent introduction of new .17 caliber cartridges has brought with it a rebirth of interest in this often misunderstood,…
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This story actually started way back in 1960 with an article by Dr. Wendell G. Swank from Michigan State College which was in the Sports Afield Gun Annual. He and a fellow doctor took their old pre-64 Winchester Model 70 .30-06 Springfield rifles with Sierra bullets to Uganda to harvest game for research.