Hunting Namibia includes stories and full-color pictures from almost ten years of safari hunting in Namibia. The safaris in this survey unfolded in most of the major untamed safaris areas of Namibia. This book offers helpful tips to those thinking about hunting in Namibia as well as stories that may seem familiar to those that have.
Our safaris balance the drama, labor, and fearlessness required for proper dangerous game hunting at close range with the precision shooting required for plains game. Our safaris started with tracking kudu and eland through the ancient acacia-covered dunes and straights bordering Bushmanland then moves to dangerous game amongst the swamps of the Zambezi River in the Caprivi and the escarpment above. Larry Weishuhn adds a special dangerous game chapter entitled HEB. His exploits keep the reader right in the thorns and dust with him as he closes the gate on the hippo, elephant, and buffalo of the Caprivi Strip. Our final weeks were spent amongst the powder-dry red Kalahari dunes and arid windswept mountains in the south and central regions where we found an abundance of uncontained gemsbok, kudu, and mountain zebra. Our provisions throughout were exceptional with the highlight likely being a feast of sheep’s head and backstrap from one of the three cattle-killing leopards we had to dispatch along the way.
Our safaris in Namibia have been exciting, safe, and fruitful with almost a total absence of biting flies and mosquitoes…what more could an adventure hunter ask for?
HUNTING NAMIBIA: A BRIEF HUNTING SURVEY OF NAMIBIA
“My library holds many hunting books from both past and present authors. Few provide the reader with that sense of being there as in David Bartlett’s book Hunting Namibia.
It gives you insight into the history of the area and tells the ‘good, bad and ugly’ from the original booking of a safari until completion…
And last but not least he is a great storyteller.”
Russ Smith — 2014 SCI CJ McElroy Award Recipient
“Namibia has become a second home for me! I love her varied desert-like terrain and habitat, her diverse big game, and other wildlife.
Hunting Namibia takes you to this great and grand country as no other book has ever done!”
Larry Weishuhn — Host of DSC’s Trailing The Hunter’s Moon