In this issue

BIG-GAME EDITION
GROOTWILDUITGAWE
Our hunting, guns and ammunition editor, Stefan Fouché, has put together our
special big-game edition for April. Regular contributor Ronald Nel takes us on an “African Odyssey” (p 10), hunting elephant with his Verney-Carron Azur Safari double rifle. He reflects on new friendships, great experiences in the bush, and hard lessons learned. In the first of two articles, Stefan Fouché tells readers about one of the biggest adrenalin rushes he had ever experienced when hunting a black bear in North America. Turn to p 22 to see what preparations (including doughnuts as bait!) and methods are required when hunting bears. “Mohohboh on the hunt ... My first buffalo charge” by Ron Thomson (p 46) takes us back to 1960, when Ron was still a young game ranger. That day, just outside Hwange National Park in the then Rhodesia, he experienced a buffalo hunt that ranks among the top ten most dangerous and exciting hunts of his entire big-game hunting career. Keeping with the topic of game rangers, “Life @ Rangers” is a new series by Christopher Palos, who enrolled for a degree in game ranch management at the Nelson Mandela University’s “Rangers Campus” in the Eastern Cape earlier this year. On p 75 he writes that, although it is still early days, he is proud of his decision and is looking forward to the adventure that lies ahead, and to tell his story.
BASA (Big Bore Association of South Africa) reports on their AGM and Dangerous Game Shoot (p 54), saying it is not only about shooting big-bore rifles, but also about stimulating interest in the research, collection, application and dissemination of historical, technical and practical big-bore rifle and ammunition information.

Wild&Jag; / Game&Hunt; Magazine Description:

WILD & JAG/ GAME & HUNT is an independent monthly publication for the broad game industry in South Africa, promoting the synergy between game production, hunting and conservation. Hunters, game ranchers and nature conservationists are served with quality informative articles and columns. GAME & HUNT is a magazine that promotes a lifestyle to the kind of reader who does not remain just a reader but becomes a follower of the GAME & HUNT brand.

While WILD & JAG/ GAME & HUNT operates in close cooperation with organised hunters, game production and nature-conservation organisations, it is editorially and financially independent.
In every edition is to be found a lead article on an important aspect of the wildlife industry as well as an article on a specific animal - including small game, big game and carnivores. Also a nature article (scientific cum popular) on South Africa's plant life and/or geographical features.