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Safari Press recently sent out an email regarding Pierre van der Walt's African Dangerous Game Cartridges.  We acquired five copies of this out-of-print title and when the email was sent out, these five copies were sold within minutes.  Unfortunately, we are not able to obtain more cop...

Robert Ruark Quotes

In the thirty-plus years that Robert Ruark hammered a typewriter as a columnist, novelist, and outdoor writer, he covered topics ranging from contemporary fashion, to sports, to World War II, to growing up in the fields and waterways of North Carolina.  However, Ruark is most oft...

Kevin Robertson explains how he created the best-selling book, The Perfect Shot, in this video shot by Fieldsports Channel 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZmZEmGFDguU&feature=youtu.be

Craig Boddington was recently named the 2017 Weatherby Award winner this week.  The Weatherby Award is a prestigious hunting award that is based on these criteria:  the number and quality of the collected species, the amount and type of conservation effort put forth by the individual throughout his...

Safari Press has compiled a timeline of the life of W. D. M. Bell during the production of his autobiography.  This information was taken from nearly 1,800 pages of typed and handwritten notes that have been hidden for over six long decades and of his previously published books.   Read his complete...

The Rowland Ward Foundation has long recognized that working with local people to conserve wildlife is not an option—it’s an urgent necessity. An excellent example of how community involvement benefits wildlife is the Association of Nature Conservation Organizations in Tajikistan, or ANCOT. The Row...

Antonio Eduardo d’Andrada de Almeida was the most successful guide for jaguars in the history of South American hunting. He was born on this day, in 1937 in São Paulo, Brazil.  He studied in England before he began to hunt in the Mato Grosso region of western Brazil in 1959. 

In 1968 he and Richard...

While going through the Sports Afield archives, we found a hunting permit for the elusive Jackalope. The following is the description that came with the permit issued by the Douglas, Wyoming Chamber of Commerce:

The Jackalope is perhaps the rarest animal in North America.  The strange animal defies ...

The latest publication of Rowland Ward's Records of Big Game, 30th edition has a new No. 3 Nile buffalo.  

This is in addition to the fourteen new world records that have been added to the 30th edition. Established in 1892 in London, Rowland Ward’s Records of Big Game is the oldest record-book serie...

To hunt dangerous game in Africa is one of the absolute summits of international big-game hunting. There are plenty of risks involved, and a hunter must accept that these hazards are simply part of the process of hunting truly dangerous game under fair-chase conditions. The veteran big-game hunter ...