The Wyman Boot
Ideal for trapping, hiking, fishing, and hunting in remote places.
Remembering Legendary PH Harry Selby
by Joe Coogan In June 1952, Robert Ruark and his wife, Virginia, arrived in Nairobi, Kenya, to fulfill Rurak’s long-held dream of hunting big game in Africa. He’d nurtured the dream from as far back as he could remember, certainly, back to the days when his...
Kermit Roosevelt: The River of Doubt
On the day after Christmas in 1913, Theodore Roosevelt and Kermit were planning another day of hunting on the Taquary River in Brazil. Both father and son were hunting jaguars before embarking on their big adventure down the River of Doubt. The jaguar is considered...
J.A. Hunter’s Africa
He saw Africa raw, tapped its treasures and chafed at what his generation had wrought.
I May Have to Shoot This One
I suppose, if there were a part of the world in which mastodon still lived, somebody would design a new gun, and men, in their eternal impudence, would hunt mastodon as they now hunt elephant. Impudence seems to be the word. At least David and Goliath were of the same...
Hunting Africa’s Most Elusive Creatures
The raucous cacophony stirred my early morning blood as it drifted up from the dense tropical vegetation far below. The hounds were in full pursuit and giving tongue as the hot scent of the kudu-killer filled their lungs. Through my binoculars I picked up an explosion...
Night of the Jaguar
Silence means danger in the black Amazon canopy as it swallows and suffocates you. The awful anticipation of what’s out there, watching and waiting, is exactly what keeps you from running and screaming, betraying your position and bringing down a swift, deadly...
Recent Ruling Sparks New Debate Over Elephant Hunting
Is hunting elephants the best way to save the species? That’s a question once again being raised in the conservation community after a recent ruling by the U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service that will make it more difficult to import legally harvested elephant ivory....
The Leopard of Lorian Swamp
We had just finished a memorable safari in the Northern Frontier District of Kenya, one on which I had taken a very fine leopard in the eleventh hour of the final day. It was my first. A male, it pegged out at nearly eight feet from nose to tail tip, and we were...