Deadly Botswana Cape Buffalo

Deadly Botswana Cape Buffalo

The most rarefied air on Earth is the painfully thin atmosphere between you and the malignant stare of a wounded Cape buffalo. The tiny bit of oxygen on the top of Mt. Everest must seem like molasses by comparison. You are connected in a wild, primordial way, as he...
Admiration On a Distant Continent

Admiration On a Distant Continent

The 10 years or so of acquaintance with these two have left a powerful impression. My admiration remains. Pieter still wears the same hat he was wearing when I first met him quite a few years back. But as for that, so do I. I suppose we both discovered that a good...
Beware The Beast Of Nchila

Beware The Beast Of Nchila

The mosaic of rolling woodlands mixed with open plains, marshes and switchback rivers make ideal habitat for Cape buffalo in the northwest corner of Zambia—including the “Beast of Nchila,” a rogue bull that had killed four of its own. Stalking a massive bull in a...
The Working Man’s Dangerous Game Gun

The Working Man’s Dangerous Game Gun

John Hill was frozen in his tracks. He got busted trying to sneak across a narrow opening to the spot where I was carefully setting up my shot on a very old and very large Cape buffalo bull.  The two were now in a staring contest and John stood statue-still with his...