A quick plug for this book. It was just recently released through Outdoor Visions. It is edited by Brooke Chilvers Lubin from African Hunting Gazette. It profiles twenty six professional hunters from across Africa that each have more than thirty years of experience. They sent each PH a questionnaire (about twenty questions ranging from where their family was from to their most dangerous hunting encounter) and then used the questionnaire responses to do a chapter on each. So they read a bit like an interview. Very interesting and informative (with an occasional editing bobble). For example, I did not realize that Johan Calitz had been almost fatally gored by a buffalo about fifteen years ago. It is a bit pricy at $80 plus shipping but I have enjoyed learning about many of the legends in the professional hunting field. Includes folks like Russ Broom, Dirk de Bod, Lou Hallamore, Barrie Duckworth, Robin Hurt, Danny McCallum, John Sharp and Coenraad Vermaak to name a few. Check it out if you like African hunting and reading about African hunting.
" Until the day breaks and the nights shadows flee away " Big ivory for my pillow and 2.5% of Neanderthal DNA flowing thru my veins. When I'm ready to go, pack a bag of gunpowder up my ass and strike a fire to my pecker, until I squeal like a boar. Yours truly , Milan The Boarkiller - World according to Milan PS I have big boar on my floor...but it ain't dead, just scared to move...
Man should be happy and in good humor until the day he dies... Only fools hope to live forever “ Hávamál”
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It is not on the website yet. Call them on their 800 number and give the title. Just Google Outdoor Visions.
Some interesting stuff. In some cases there is remarkable consistency in their answers to some questions, like what makes a good client. In other cases, there are clearly differences of opinion, like on the caliber choice for dangerous game.
Ian is not in the book. The book is embossed Volume 1 and in the introduction the editor indicates they intend to do future volumes (although everyone in the book is living and since the format is interview-like including deceased PHs would require a different approach, and open the field up considerably). She also noted that, not surprisingly, they did not have 100% success with folks replying to the questionnaire. So I have no idea who the questionnaire went to.
