Wild&Jag; / Game&Hunt; - July 2018

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BLY KALM DIÉ WINTER EN EET BILTONG! KEEP CALM THIS WINTER AND EAT SOME BILTONG! “The wilderness is not a luxury but a necessity of the human spirit” – Edward Abbey Wintertime is hunting time … no doubt about that! This time of year is associated with cold but beautiful sunrises in the bush, early-morning coffee around a smouldering fire, the excitement of the hunt, and some welcome game meat and biltong in the freezer at home. Spending some quality hunting time in the bush, either alone or with a good hunting buddy, tracking and stalking your quarry, bringing it down, and sitting around a crackling campfire at night under the star-speckled African skies – this is the stuff that memories are made of; memories that will one day feed the soul when you are no longer able to hunt. Let this issue be your guide and companion to help make those special memories this hunting season. Hunting editor, Stefan Fouché, decided to challenge the planet’s fastest antelope, the tsessebe – on foot and with open sights. Turn to p 16 to find out how he outwitted this wary plains-game animal with his double rifle at Nahla Safaris outside Schweizer-Reneke in North-West Province. Stefan also put a deadly combination of a gun and riflescope to the test. On p 22 he waxes lyrical about the performance of the .30-378 Weatherby Magnum in the Weatherby Mark V Accumark, fitted with a top-of-the-range Leupold riflescope, the VX6-HD 3-18x50 – both made in America and built for Africa. In “Captive-bred lions: ethics, fair chase – according to whom?” on p 40, I ask some questions about hunting, particularly captive-bred lion hunting and the controversy surrounding it. The question that we hunters should ask ourselves is this: “According to whom are you going to decide where your money will go to for the freedom to hunt and for the protection of natural habitat?” ...