African Hunter Published Books Guide to Nyati | Hunting the African Buffalo | Page 13

Foreword

A Guide to NYATI - The Art of Hunting the African Buffalo,
is the absolute definitive work on every aspect of hunting the
African buffalo, and my sincerest congratulations go to the
editorial African Hunter team at Mag-Set Publications: Anthony
Williams, Don Heath and Andy Fenwick, for their dedication in its
compilation, which can only have been a mammoth task. Anthony
Williams, Mag-set’s editor-in-chief, made the comment when he
asked me to write this foreword that he would like to portray the
book as being produced firstly by Africans, and secondly by the
team at Mag-Set. He remarked too that having debated whether
to put the team’s names on the cover it was decided it would be
preferable to acknowledge that it has very much been a team effort
with lots of overlap in all the main sectors – writing, editing and
final lay-out, and that like the magazine, it is written by hunters...
for hunters.
Although the articles on shot placement are mostly Don’s
work, the Mag-Set team has individually written little of the rest
of the text, it having been drawn mostly from almost a decade of
publishing the African Hunter magazine, and includes editorial
from such notable experts as Ira Larivers, Ian Nyschens, Charlie
Haley, Ganyana, Cam Greig, Terry Blauwkamp and Don and
Anthony themselves. Many other contributions have been made,
not all of them acknowledged by name, and many other bush and
hunting oriented people have looked at the text and given their
views and ideas, that have also been incorporated. It must be said
that the success of such a comprehensive guide lies in the many
and varied people who have contributed, whose experiences have
never before been pooled into a single published work.
Anthony Williams has spent ten years in the field in his
role as editor-in-chief of the African Hunter magazine, a major
part of the tremendous success of which has been due to his vast
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