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Published: Wednesday 2nd of November, 2011
Africa. Just the word itself conjures up images of a sunburned landscape. Of wild animals and even more wild tribes...
As a boy I'd read many books on the Dark Continent. Then, as a young man, I'd travelled in the footsteps of my heroes. Burton, Speke - and my favourite African adventurer, Samuel Baker. I had trekked overland from Cairo to Durban in an epic 13 month journey during my early twenties, relying on my wits and sometimes, naive innocence to get me through situations which arose.
Twice since then I'd revisited the continent on hunting safaris with my daughter, Taygen. As a hunter there was, however, one quest which had thus far eluded me. M'bogo. The Cape buffalo. And the most romantic place for such a hunt in my mind, the Selous region of Tanzania. When I say romantic it is in the quixotic sense, rich in tradition, painted in ritual, a hunt of dreamlike proportion. It was with me, like an itch which could not be scratched, until finally I succumbed to its pull. The only self-imposed proviso, that I hunt as the old hunters, those stalwarts who'd trekked this very same veldt before me. On foot. A real safari...
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Submitted By: Davey H
27th of April, 2012
It was the best of hunts. It was the worst of hunts. Some days I wondered what the hell I was even doing here and yet other days I simply marvelled at the experience I was having in this part of the world
Submitted By: Giles P
28th of March, 2012
We were all dead still, I moved in millimetres and only whilst filming, never raising our white faces to the sky. We hardly breathed. The leaf matter crunched under any movement, so we just froze. It\'s a sickening thing to scare off a Deer or a Tahr.
Submitted By: Swazi
30th of December, 2011
When we were first developing the idea of making a show about the world\'s last traditional hunters, the hunt that was first on my list was blowpipe hunting.
Submitted By: Paul C
29th of December, 2011
The end of July in Canada\'s Yukon Territory is a special time. Not only are the bugs starting to wind down, but hunting season is just around the corner
Submitted By: Giles P
16th of December, 2011
The presenter and I are hanging 15 yards back. Both experienced hunters and physically very fit, both totally out of our league as these jungle athletes spring from fallen log to thorny palm trunk, without making a sound, and in one fluid movement.
