44.5" Zambian Sable

Dave Fulson recently took this exceptional sable bull while hunting with Pete Fisher in Nchila, Zambia.

Source: The Accurate Reloading Forum

Bill Quimby's latest book: SIXTY YEARS A HUNTER

Bill Quimby's latest book "SIXTY YEARS A HUNTER" has been published by Safari Press.



Bill Quimby is best known as the longtime editor of SCI’s Safari magazine. This position has given Quimby opportunities to hunt on multiple continents for all the game animals found there. In this latest work he tells us of hunts across North and South America; South Africa, Zimbabwe, Zambia, and other parts of Africa; Spain; Mongolia; and New Zealand. Also included is Quimby’s successful quest to become one of the very few to take all ten of Arizona’s big-game species.

In the foreword for Sixty Years a Hunter, Craig Boddington writes: “Relatively few in our business are equally adept as hunters, writers, and editors. Bill Quimby is one . . . [this] is a fine story of a great life of hunting, writing, and editing.

Further information can be found here on the Safari Press website.

Peter Flack takes a Ssese Island Sitatunga

Peter Flack returned at the end of August from a successful hunt for Africa's rarest spiral horned antelope, the Ssese Island Sitatunga (Tragelaphus spekei sylvestris) on the Ssese Island archipelago in Lake Victoria.

He is only the fifth hunter to hunt these elusive animals since the species has been re-opened for hunting by Uganda Wildlife.

Peter was assisted on his hunt by PH Grant Roodt of Lake Albert Safaris and he managed to get a representative mature sitatunga bull of 20 inches on the third day of his hunt.



Reading Flack's report, it is clear that there is huge degradation of the sitatunga's environment taking place on the islands and the hunting facilities are not yet up to scratch. Once can only hope that this situation improves.

His report written for the African Indaba newsletter can be read here.

Alan Shearing gored by buffalo

Professional hunter Alan Shearing of Charlton McCallum Safaris is recovering in the Millpark Hospital in Johannesburg, South Africa after being gored by a wounded buffalo bull. The incident is related by Buzz Charlton who took over the safari from Alan in his absence, via the Accurate Reloading forum:

"Chad ( Als client) and Al wounded a buff early morning in thick bush. The shot looked good and they both expected to find it dead with in 100 yards or so. However unfortunatly the shot was a little low.

They then followed the old dugga boy for the better part of the day till 3pm where they caught up to it again in quite thick bush. Both Al and Chad shot it and the buff started running paralel to them where upon they both emptied their magazines into the buff.

As bad luck would have it as soon as they both had fired their last rounds the buff stopped and then charged them. The buff was coming directly for Chad who managed get behind a big mopani tree. Al then got the attention of the buff to draw it away from Chad. The buff then went for Al who fell over and was kicking the buffs bosses as it tried to gore him.

Unfortunatly the buff did manage to toss Al but credit to the game scout who managed to put a few shots in the Buff with this AK . Chad then got in the final killing shot. I think the important thing to remember was that this all took only a couple of seconds to play out. It was very unfortunate that the buff ,from running parallel, then charged them just as both Al and Chad finished their last rounds not giving them enough time to reload before it was on them.

I have heard the story from Al, Chad, the trackers and game Scout and from every account everyone involved did everything they could and behaved in a professional manner under extreme circumstances. Had it not been for the fact that Al diverted the buff attention it may well have got Chad and likewise had it not been for Chad and the Game Scout who stood thier ground and managed to shoot the buff off Al it may have been a much worse tale.

Luckily for Al there was a pilot close to camp who diverted and took Al to Harare where he was met by the Mars ambulance. He went into surgery that evening and it was decided that the following moring that Al should go to South Africa where he is now. Rosy and thier two boys, Chad and Kyle are with Al also."

Following some major surgery it seems that Alan is on the road to recovery.

Here follows a photo of the client Chad with the old dagga boy that got hold of Allan. By all accounts it seems that Chad handled himself well in a very difficult situation.

Boddington reminisces Rhodesia

Craig Boddington has written a great piece for Petersen's Hunting magazine in which he reminisces hunting in then-Rhodesia with Barrie Duckworth.



The article deals less with specific hunts but more with the conditions which the safari industry - and the Rhodesian people - endured through political instability and the Bush War.

Read the full article.

Ivan Carter does it again

Ivan Carter and Dean Kendall (from Tanzania Bundu Safaris) have guided their client Graham Weiss to a fantastic elephant bull followed by a wide old buffalo bull. These animals were taken in the Lolkisale district in Tanzania.

Here is Graham with his elephant




Dean, Graham and Ivan with the old buffalo bull



and Dean Kendall showing the bull off from the front



The full story as told by Ivan is on the Accurate Reloading forums here

As you will read in Ivan's report above, Graham did not even concern himself with the tusks weights or the spread of the buffalo bull's norns. A true sposrtman.