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A friend of mine returned from Africa with fantastic stories of a ten-day hunt for hippo and crocodile along the Zambezi River, and his photos were quite impressive. It's a [...]

In January of 2014, high in the Pamir Mountains in Tajikistan along its border with Afghanistan, a local villager briefly glimpsed the largest Bukharan markhor that anyone in the village [...]

From its headwaters in Wyoming, the Madison River flows north into southern Montana and then turns west to join the Firehole and Gibbons at Three Forks where these tributaries form [...]

With aisles of fantastic hunting and fishing destinations and one of the world's most spectacular collections of taxidermy, it takes a lot to draw a crowd at the big hunting [...]

Zimbabwe's Bubye Valley Conservancy (BVC) lies in the southern portion of the country, comprising portions of both Matabeleland South and Masvingo Provinces. In the early 1900s, huge cattle operations were [...]

During the early twentieth century, some of the greatest works of hunting literature were penned by men like John Henry Patterson, Jim Corbett, and Kenneth Anderson, hunters who were as [...]

Two rifles that once belonged to Jim Corbett, the author and hunter responsible for killing many of India's most notorious man-eaters. Two more that belonged to Frederick Courteney Selous, one [...]

The turn of the twentieth century was a high time for Lieutenant Colonel John Patterson. After having been commissioned to oversee construction on the Uganda Railway in early 1898, Patterson [...]

The goal of most hunts, at least indirectly, is to bring the trophies home. Brokers, customs, dipping and packing--it can all seem confusing to someone going on safari for the [...]

During the early twentieth century, the residents of India's Kumaon District and the adjacent territories in northwestern Nepal were plagued by a string of fatal tiger attacks that numbered in [...]

It was winter in the Kalahari Desert, but by midmorning the dry landscape had warmed enough that the grazing herds were moving out of the grassy savannas and into thorn [...]

When I was eight years old, my trophy room (which doubled as my bedroom and study) consisted of just three mounts: the antlers of a bull moose my uncle had [...]

Hunters love to explore new places, a legacy that dates back to the exploration into the American wilderness and the opening of colonial game fields in Africa and Asia. While [...]

It was late autumn on the Himalayan slopes of eastern India. Thermal currents rushed down the mountain face toward the Kosi River several hundred feet below, the river itself a [...]

The bush in the western Kalahari was winter-dry, and dead leaves lay scattered brown over the cool sand. It was impossible to move without being heard, so I stood motionless [...]

My first successful stalk in Africa stands out in vivid detail. Our hunting party stopped atop a low ridge to glass a sea of dry thorn and brittle yellow grass [...]

It was January 2010, the peak of Zimbabwe's hot, humid rainy season. The northern Zambezi Valley was cloaked in a dense green mat of new vegetation that grew in dense [...]

I once shot a large kudu and had a pedestal mount done by a taxidermist about thirty miles from my home. When I went to pick the trophy up in [...]

Dale Lee swung his machete in horizontal strokes, chopping his way through the dense palmetto bush toward an open area in the Venezuelan forest, or monte. Now and then he [...]

Just after six o'clock in the morning, Andy Savage and his team from Heaven's Gate Outfitters began loading hounds and gear into the pickups in anticipation of our upcoming bear [...]

When designing a trophy room there are numerous decisions that need to be made before the project begins. How much square footage will your trophy room require? How many mounts [...]

The town of Saint-Etienne lies in southeastern France in the Rhone-Alpes region of the country, less than forty miles from Lyon. Saint-Etienne has a history of producing firearms that dates [...]

Despite the time and money that goes into hunting an animal, having it mounted, and displaying it as a memory of the experience, even the most ardent hunter may eventually [...]

Frederick Selous sat on a freshly cut log at the edge of a small fire, his rifle propped against the wagon beside him and the moon full overhead. It was [...]

I awoke to the sound of boots crunching on washed gravel outside my room. Franz, the tracker, was loading the pickup for the day's hunt. In the iron-gray light of [...]

I had made up my mina. I was going to go hunting in Africa at least once in my life whether I could afford it or not, and in my [...]

The game trail was a narrow corridor of hard to imagine that three big bull elephants had recently come down this path, but professional hunter Karl Stumpfe stood over their [...]

Just after ten o'clock in the morning on my second day of hunting in the Etosha Conservancy's Hillendale Farm, we stumbled on our first big kudu bull. The mix of [...]

Every responsible gun owner should invest in a gun safe or vault. Most serious shooters and hunters have a significant financial investment in their firearms, not to mention a sentimental [...]

As our houseguests weaved their way down the front hall and entered the study I heard an audible gasp. I rounded the corner to find the wife of a friend [...]

Most hunters, when considering how to get an animal mounted, are perfectly content to choose among the basic offerings from most taxidermy studios. That's fine if you know you want [...]

If you've spent time in hunting camps anywhere from British Columbia to Zambia to Mongolia you know some of the most memorable moments of any hunt take place in camp [...]

The first documented human inhabitants in southeastern Zimbabwe's Lowveld region were San bushman, traces of whom date back to 7,000 years BC. The San occupied the area until the Iron [...]

When Benson Kibonde left his position as chief warden of the Selous Game Reserve in Tanzania in 2008 he thought the days of rampant ivory poaching in Tanzania were long [...]

I remember the night that I picked up the shipment of heads, horns, and skins from my first African safari. I'm not sure what I expected when I opened the [...]

If you're a hunter with a nice collection of taxidermy and you're planning to relocate, you're probably considering the best way to transport your collection. You could have a regular [...]

I'm in the process of building a new home, and I'm already mapping out locations for my mounts. Since finished square footage isn't cheap, and since much of that square [...]

The Safari Club International convention in Las Vegas is the world's largest hunting marketplace, with guides, professional hunters, and outfitters offering hunting and fishing trips to every remote corner of [...]

Namibia has some of the healthiest game populations of any African nation, a result of careful management practices over the course of the last three decades. But despite the country's [...]

In 2010, Buzz Charlton and Myles McCallum of Charlton McCallum Safaris were awarded the rights to hunt in the Dande Safari Area and Dande East concessions in Zimbabwe's Zambezi Valley, [...]

Modern technology plays a role in almost every facet of our daily lives. Smartphones track our global coordinates, store our music collections, wake us for work in the morning, help [...]

Hunting in exotic lands is as much about the culture and experience as it is about the game you take. African safari hunting, in particular, carries a mystique that, for [...]

When the FLIR Scout III arrived I thought of it more as a novelty than an essential piece of gear, but within a week that changed: There's a lot you [...]

The best taxidermists seem to capture the spirit of the animal, creating a mount so lifelike that it makes your heart jump every time you raise the lights in your [...]

For many hunters, trophy room space is at a premium. Large shoulder mounts, pedestals, and life-size trophies take up a lot of real estate. That's one reason European mounts, or [...]

In 1994, professional hunter Mark Haldane arrived in coastal Mozambique and found the region decimated. Once-robust game populations had been reduced to almost nothing over the course of the nation's [...]

Like many hunters, I was fascinated with sporting literature from a very young age. Great works of hunting literature such as Ruark's Horn of the Hunter and Capstick's Death in [...]

The United States Fish and Wildlife Service (USFWS) announced on April 4 that it would ban the importation of sport-hunted elephant trophies from Zimbabwe and Tanzania for the 2014 calendar [...]

A few years ago, Weatherby launched its first Vanguard Dangerous Game rifle, the synthetic .375 H&H Magnum, at the SHOT Show. At that same show the company displayed a custom [...]

Shooting sticks have become standard tools for hunting in many places around the globe. A solid pair of sticks provides you with a steady platform from which to deliver an [...]