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May 2009

New Thunder in the Bushveld.
 The New Mauser M03 is a take down rifle with the barrel bedded into a solid piece of steel. I have used the .458 Lott on seven African safaris, where I shot plains game (impala, hartebeest, oryx, kudu, eland, and warthog) as well as big game (hippo, buffalo, and elephant). Based on my own experiences, and on numerous comments and reports published in the hunting literature, the .458 Lott seems to be ideally suited for African hunting because of its high efficiency and penetration
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Within the next few weeks, my companion and I will embark on a journey that has been a decade-long dream of mine. It is to be a foot journey and will ultimately see us completely circumambulate Zimbabwe, beginning and ending at Victoria Falls and following the borderline the entire distance. When the Borderline concept was first put to me, I was a mere twenty-four years old. I am now thirty-seven and finally ready to put it into practice. At first it was an interesting idea that was worthy of conversation. Then it became a possibility worth looking into.


Hunting your Favorite.
Given an open invitation to go hunting which animal would be your first choice? One of the Big Five? A particularly rare or difficult to hunt or a species that you have never hunted before? Or would you, like me, rather hunt one of your old favourites? An animal that is close to your heart because of certain characteristics or because you know the animal’s habitat and habits and because that particular species stirs your emotions in one way or another whenever you see it in the veld.

Destination: Southern Mozambique. The 2M beer is ice cold and the warm tropical air forms tiny droplets on the bottle. I sit under a coconut leaf roof on the veranda of a small restaurant in Coconut Bay in Southern Mozambique near Inhambane.
The warm tropical sun makes me yawn and I
consider again how tough life in Africa really is.

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The Great Stories. Every man wants a battle to fight. It’s the whole thing with boys and weapons. And look at the movies men love—Braveheart, Gladiator, Top Gun, High Noon, Saving Private Ryan.
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CURRENT MOON

Finding Jimmy. Ever so slowly I inch my way through the scrub, closing in purposefully on the result of what was possibly my life’s crowning achievement. I keep low and don’t yet have him visual, though I hear him shuffling about and know he is close. The wind is in my face and of no concern, but rhinos have acute hearing and I watch my step. Ten yards ahead and slightly to the right is a conveniently placed anthill and I make for it, using it as approach cover. Then I cautiously ascend the mound on hands and knees and peep over the top. There, not twenty paces away, browsing brush in a small clearing, is the result of what was possibly my life’s crowning achievement: finding Jimmy

Predicting Bullet performance. Tomorrow there will be a 30% chance of rain with the possibility of scattered thundershowers which might spread from the southern Freestate to the Mpumalanga lowveld. Talk about keeping your options open! Well, predicting bullet performance on an animal that you are hunting can be pretty much like predicting the weather. There are just so many variables involved.


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Now you will be able to fix your PH's Land Cruiser, treat him for snake bite, give a fellow hunter CPR, recognize animal tracks and make a gourmet dish from a mamba. Click here or on one of the images to download. Who's your daddy?

During June two hunters—one white and one black—will begin a long walk along the border of Zimbabwe to raise awareness and gain support for the plight of the wildlife and people of Zimbabwe and help finance community development programs.

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The BorderLine Walk will be 3066 kilometers long: 813 kilometers along the Botswana border, 797 km. along Zambia, 225 km. along South Africa, and finally 1231 km. along the Mozambique border.  The BorderLine Walk will be widely covered by the media and progress will be published on the African Expedition Magazine website and progress shown on Google Earth.

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