This past September I spent some time in Africa just getting face-to-face with various people in position to influence policies, procedures and hunting opportunities in Southern Africa. E-mail Extra subscribers know I was in Namibia first attending a symposium on the ecologic and economic benefits of hunting, which I’ll tell you more about in a moment. I also spent some time in South Africa with PHASA’s outgoing president Peter Butland, and I visited with the director of the Niassa Reserve in Mozambique, where the hunting program has d.....

 After 15 years of continuous operation, Jamie Bell of Australia has sold the New Caledonian business arm of Jamie Bell Safaris to New Zealanders Colin and Alison Murray, who are now operating as Belle New Caledonia Safaris. Bell was long recognized as having access to some of the best free-range Java rusa stag properties on the island, so I wanted to profile the new broom in action and see how they’d measure up.

 New Caledonia is one of the South Pacific’s most popular hunting destinations. It consists of a number of Frenc.....

 It has been some time since I reported on antelope outfitters, especially in New Mexico. One of the best western outfits, Bucks & Bulls Guides and Outfitters (801-785-5050; http://www.bucksandbulls.com/) has produced monster bucks there for over 20 years. Ever since Kim Bonnett first leased the Fort Union ranch, hardly a year has gone by without this outfit’s clients tagging at least one buck scoring 85 points, often larger and just as often, several! Not content to rest on these results, Bonnett recently added more great antelope .....

Coyotes may be among the most prolific and proficient predators in North America. Yet, they are crafty devils that can frustrate just about any hunter. If you would like to learn how to pursue them or improve your predator hunting skills with these animals, correspondent Gary Lewis may have found just the thing for you – it’s a predator hunting school that offers hands-on training in the field. Here’s what he had to say about this opportunity:

 “If you’d like to build your predator hunting prowess on a hunt that provides multip.....

 You may remember our story this past September about those Marco Polo shipments from Tajikistan that the US Fish & Wildlife Service (USFWS) had detained. As of press time, those trophies were still in limbo, and we’d heard that USFWS was in the process of interviewing hunters for more details about their hunts. According to the letters from wildlife inspectors with the Service, they are conducting an inquiry into the legality and authenticity of the foreign permits attached to these shipments in order to determine whether they have.....