In This Issue
The Dancing Kudu Bone....................... 8
Nyati on the Limpopo......................... 21
Fact File
Mushroom Hunting in Zimbabwe..... 47
Hunter's Gallery
Various Hunters and
their Trophies.................................... 48
Bowhunting in Africa
1000 Grains of Sheer Momentum..... 50
Tail Piece
ON THIS COVER
Volume 19 No 2 - 2013
Ingwalathi Issue
The Silence of Sam........................... 57
REGULAR COLUMNS
From The Editor....................... 5
On Target................................... 6
Hunters' Guide
An Elusive Bushbuck........................ 14
AFRICAN
PERSPECTIVES
The Mr X Files
Invasion of the Cradle-Snatchers............. I
Taylor's KO Values and a Hippo
Who Never Saw it Coming............... 36
Classic Cartridges
The .458 African................................. 16
Tales from the Great North
Road
Adam Renders and Great Zimbabwe.... 19
This 'n That
Update on Bullet Performance IV..... 21
Around the Campfire
What Rifle?.......................................... 22
Ballistics
Relative Trauma Potential Comparing Cartridges Part I............. 44
Kit Review
Mana Fence...........................................IV
Solar-Powered Camp Lighting
from Barrett Electronics.....................XIII
Cal on Doubles
By Cal Pappas......................................... V
The Way Things Were
The Magnificent Seven........................ VII
Overheard on AR
Why Hunt Africa?................................... X
Around the Campfire
Laser Technology..................................XI
Book Review
Baobab..................................................IX
In the News
What's Happening..............................XIV
Obituary
John Northcote.................................... XV
Photo: Dave Christensen
FEATURE
Ingwalathi is the isiNdebele name for the
sable antelope (Hippotragus niger), which
inhabits wooded savannah in East and
southern Africa.
The genus Hippotragus consists of four
distinct subspecies and while the Angolan
giant sable - H n variani - is classified as
critically endangered the common sable is
a much sought-after game species and its
healthy populations in Tanzania, Zambia,
Zimbabwe, Mozambique, and Botswana
probably owe much to sport hunting. In South
Africa and Namibia (and Texas) there are
huntable populations on game ranches.
The sable is a large species, and can weigh
from 330 to 600 pounds. In all subspecies,
males are slightly larger than females.
Female sable are chestnut to dark brown in
colour, darkening as they age, while males
are very distinctively black. Sable antelope
possess ringed scimitar-like horns which arch
backward and can reach over 1.1 metres in
length in males. The longevity of the sable
has been estimated at up to eighteen years.
The species’ habitat is savanna woodland and
grassland during the dry season, where they
eat mid-length grasses and leaves. Sable have
been known to chew bones to collect minerals.
They are diurnal, but are less active during
the mid-day heat. They form herds of ten to
thirty females and calves led by a single bull.
When sable are threatened by predators,
including lion, they will stand their ground,
and many of the large cats have died in
these confrontations.
The African Hunter is published six times per
annum by Mag-Set Publications in association
with African Sporting Publications South Africa
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