Essential Africa Safari Gear

Essential Africa Safari Gear

Having now made some 15 safaris to five different African countries, I feel confident in defining the essential safari gear a hunter really needs for a plains game safari. Rifles, optics, cartridges, bullets, packs, slings, boots, clothes, shooting sticks. It’s less...
Savage Accufit Rifles Working Africa

Savage Accufit Rifles Working Africa

This article originally appeared on RonSpomerOutdoors.com M110 bolt-action Savage rifles with AccuFit stocks are tough, MOA accurate, and inexpensive Savage AccuFit rifles adjust to fit 5′ 2″ Betsy and her 5′ 10″ husband AccuFit rifles are rough-and-tumble durable We...
Roaning Western Africa

Roaning Western Africa

I had taken a good mature roan, considered by many serious African hunters to be a more interesting animal than the regal sable! Tim Fallon shoved a water bottle in my face and insisted I drink.  “How hot do you think it is?” he asked. Before I could respond he...
The Game of Kings

The Game of Kings

If you probe the dark thickets and brushy hillsides of Zululand, you’ll eventually encounter the ‘great shaggy form’ of a bull nyala. And like legendary hunters and early Zulu kings, you will come to revere this elusive animal as the most beautiful of all African antelope.