Ivan de Klasz asks the valid question “Did dangerous game become tamer”, from what he can recall of hunting forest buffalo in the 1950s with annual quotas of 18+, it probably did. Laurence Jennings invites us to a grey rhebuck hunt in the Stormsberg mountains in King of the hills, Tony Sanchez-Ariño shares his first elephant hunt with us on the 26th of August 1952 and Garrick Cormack continues with Part 2 of Through the lens – how to choose your safari film-maker. One of our regular contributors Christophe Beau ponders about the .222 RM as a calibre for gemsbok, while John Coleman recalls his crocodile hunting years on the Zambezi and as the old saying goes, “You can tell if a person is a crocodile hunter, because he always casts his eyes around the rim of a cup of coffee or glass of beer before he drinks”. Jacques Strauss offers some tips on better trophy pictures, Peter Flack remembers how he was converted from “biltong hunter” to trophy hunter in Whisky, wine and trophy hunting and Ed Ostrosky had some serious elephant encounters in the Tembe Elephant Park. The 8x57 mm Mauser: the mother of all rimless cartridges with a case head of .473 – a very informative article by Chris Bekker.
November/December 2021
Due to the unreliability of the South African postal services and the possible collapse of the South African Post Office, African Outfitter have decided not to offer their services anymore, both locally in South Africa and internationally. We apologise for the inconvenience. Although much cheaper, no delivery was ever guaranteed.
International:
- Shipping by courier will be calculated for the shipping zone of your shipping address.
- It is based on weight brackets of 0.5 kg/ 1.5kg/ 3.5kg/ 7.5kg/ 15kg/ 20kg/ 30kg/ 35kg.
- The system will calculate the correct shipping for your total cart purchase.
- Play around with the items in your cart as you might still have extra weight available in your bracket and can save on the shipping of additional items.
South Africa:
- The minimum will be R 100 via Aramex (Store-to-Door) or R 60 via PAXI (To your nearest PEP Stores) per cart purchase.
- Max weight per bag is 5kg for both options.
- The system will calculate the correct shipping for your total cart purchase.
- Play around with the items in your cart as you might still have extra weight available in your bag and can save on the shipping of additional items.
- For the PAXI option, please visit www.paxi.co.za/points. Enter your physical address and it will give you your closest branches.
- Please enter the orange branch code in the Subscriber Number field in our shop, together with your subscriber number if you are one.
Total weight: 0.250kg