Dear Readers,

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...

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...

Westley Richards & Co. Ltd published their first edition of The Explora journal.  This journal was the original brainchild of former Chairman and Managing Director, Simon Clode who passed away in December 2016.  It boasts outstanding photography throughout and features the Forest Rifle, a .600 drop...

Rowland Ward's Records of Big Game, 30th Edition
Book Review in the
2021 Spring issue of African Hunting Gazette

In 1892, James Rowland Ward  (1848– 1912), a British taxidermist, well-known publisher of natural history books and big-game hunting narratives, and the founder of the firm Rowland Ward Lim...

A Hunter’s Hunter by Robin Hurt

THIS IS A BIG book – in every sense. It measures 39x30cm and has 512 pages. And it is big in that it’s all-encompassing. It’s not only about professional hunter Robin Hurt’s life and lengthy career; it spans pretty much the entire African hunting scene from the late ‘...

Hossein “Soudy” Golabchi passed away on Friday, 22 January 2021 after battling pneumonia for several months.  He was born in  1941 in Tehran, the capital of Iran. Soudy graduated from Illinois Institute of Technology in Chicago.  He moved to the United States permanently after the Iranian revolutio...

Congratulations Buzz Charlton! 

Professional Hunter Buzz Charlton is co-owner of DSC's 2021 Outfitter of the Year, Charlton McCallum Safaris.  He is one of the most experienced dangerous-game professional hunters still operating in Africa today, and he has a lot of stories to tell. Read about his am...

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...

6 December 1945-19 May 2020

John Seerey-Lester, award-winning wildlife artist and a great supporter and friend of the Safari Press family, passed away on 19 May after a brief battle with cancer.  Born and raised in England, John relocated to America in 1980.  He loved his adopted country and became...

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 ...