RSA R45 africanhuntinggazette.com a VVoolluummee 1290 •• IIssssuuee 34 HHuunnttiinngg tthhee ggrreeaatt ccoonnttiinneenntt ooff AAffrriiccaa Apr/May/Jun 2015 b africanhuntinggazette.com africanhuntinggazette.com 1 Contents Due to the variation in color and structure of the patterning of the hide, taxonomists disagree whether there are as many as Brooke’s Editorial nine subspecies or six full different species of giraffe. Although giraffe What’s in a Name? 7 can be hunted in private game farms in Southern Africa, the News & Letters giraffe is not included in the SCI On Linda Lemon, Artist in Africa in AHG Vol. 20, Issue 3 Trophy Record Book. By Lloyd L. Smrkovski 8 • Published quarterly, a quality journal presenting A Family On Safari By Mrs. Luisa Perregil 9 all aspects of hunting available in Africa. Another Response to Brooke’s Editorial, “What Would Teddy Say?” • The traditions and tales, the professional hunters (AHG 20.1) By Bill Heubaum 9 of today, and the legends of yesteryear. • Reporting on the places to go, the sport available and all the equipment to use. Hunters Do Good • Examining the challenges of managing wildlife Update on the Chiredzi River African as a sustainable resource and the relationship Wildlife Trust (Zimbabwe) By Nick Ohanesian 10 between Africa’s game and its people. Publisher & Editor-in-Chief From the Desk of Hunter Proud Foundation – Richard Lendrum The Elephant and the Pauper – The Movie By Zig Mackintosh 12 [email protected] Editor – Brooke ChilversLubin Gear & Gadgets [email protected] Leica Optics – ER 5 Series Riflescopes 16 Managing Editor – Esther Sibanda GASTON J. GLOCK Style LP – Excellent Hunting Jacket 16 [email protected] Meopta Optics 17 Columnists Ripcord Service – Emergency & Insurance Services 17 • On Shooting Johan van Wyk Clint Orms Engravers & Silversmiths 18 • One for the Road & On Ammunition Terry Wieland Wildlife Game Advertising Enquiries: Outfitters, Africa and Europe Extending Tanzania’s Hunting Season – Two Points of View Richard Lendrum By Dr. Henry Brink & Rolf Baldus 20 Tel: +27 11-280-3370 [email protected] Wildlife Profile North America Giraffe from “Game Animals of the World” By Chris and Mathilde Stuart 24 Kim Rieman Tel: +1 406-925-2466 [email protected] Hunting Stories [email protected] Zimbabwe 2012: This Could Have Been the One! By PH Ernest Dyason 28 Design & Layout – Nadette Voogd South Africa 2012: How to Spend 24 Days in South Africa By Rick Batten 34 Zimbabwe 2014: Fourth Time’s Charm By Mike Ambrose 42 Subscriptions Africa South Africa 2014: Pinch Me! By Dan Cantlon 48 Esther Sibanda Zimbabwe 2011: A Cowboy Gun in Africa By Brett Valette 52 [email protected] Namibia 2013: A Really Good Rifle… By Brian “Wato” Watson 58 Rest of the World Botswana 2010: Botswana Bulls By Tony Masino 64 Nicole Kelly South Africa 2004: Cattle Raiders of the Kalahari By Bruce Parker 70 [email protected] Toll Free: 1-855-528-3325 Company Profile Administration & Finance – African Dreams 76 Pria Bharath [email protected] Mosita Wildlife 77 Published by: African Sporting Gazette Inc. Bowhunting PO Box 30, Bracebridge, ON, P1L 1T5, Canada Namibia (2004) - First African Bowhunting Safari By Frank Berbuir 78 South Africa (2012) - Archery and Antelope By Derrek Batson 86 Printed by USA – Quad Graphics Inc. Africa – Typo Colour Printing Specialists Huntress Diana Zimbabwe (2014) - The Unexpected Wait © Copyright. All copyright for material appearing in this magazine belongs to African Sporting By Laura Barbour 94 Gazette Inc. 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Not mall bookstores a buffalo, he died age 37 in London, after with 50 shades of the same thing, but having lived quite openly as “intimate independent bookstores that still carry friends” with two other men, a poet and obscure titles for people who don’t read watercolorist. Thomson was furious that just in airplanes, like Shakespeare and the Rider Haggard ripped off many of his tales Hunt or African Animals in Renaissance while his own book failed. Literature and Art. Lieutenant General Sir Charles How else would I have discovered William Maxwell (1776–1848) was The Eponym Dictionary of Mammals? I’d Governor of Senegal in 1809, Sierra probably already graduated from college Leone in 1811, and later of Dominica. before learning that the much tossed- It was Maxwell who reported that the around “eponymous” simply means explorer Mungo Park (1771-1806) was, naming something after somebody. As indeed, dead. Upon returning to England, in the Roosevelt sable being named after an American whose African factories Pictured here in 1863, Maria Emma of Teddy. So this is a dictionary of the people he had burned down in his fight against Mrs. Gray’s lechwe fame, was 13 years older after whom mammals are named, for slavery sued Maxwell, for whom the duiker than her husband, John Edward, and the example, the Mr. Grant and Mr. Thomson is named; the American was awarded widow of his second cousin. Unfortunately, behind their eponymous gazelles. compensation by the British government. most hunters now refer to her lechwe as the This 574-page reference book turned out Scottish naturalist and explorer Colonel Nile lechwe. to be a page-turner as I looked up every James August Grant (1827–1892) fought species with a family name I could think in India during the Sikh Wars and the of. The history is so rich in semi-tragic Indian Mutiny, before spending three years ashes are interred in Israel. characters that one is relieved they are with John Speke (1860–1863), looking for Not to be forgotten is Hon. Edward immortalized – at least to us hunters. the source of the Nile; coincidentally, both Smithy Stanley, 13th Earl of Derby The British pioneer Harry Scott were big-game hunters. Debilitated by leg (1775–1851) who fathered a future Prime Thornicroft (b. 1868), for whom Zambia’s ulcers during the last stretch to the source, Minister, but never visited Africa. At his Luangwa Valley’s giraffe is named, spent the modest Grant was really a botanist and death, he owned 1,272 birds and 345 live 17 years as District Commissioner in never really claimed to have discovered mammals at his estate, hopefully including Northern Rhodesia. He married an Ngoni Grant’s gazelle or Grant’s zebra! A truly great a few Lord Derby eland! matriarch named Elizabeth Mvula with man, interested in the customs and habits But Mrs. Gray seems to have lost whom he had 11 children. In 1902, he of the tribes the expedition encountered, her lechwe, and Maria Emma’s famous shot a giraffe and shipped its skin to the you can find a brass inscription in his husband, John Edward, Keeper of Zoology British Museum (where it was displayed memory at St. Paul’s Cathedral in London. at the British Museum, gets all the name until it rotted away) on suspicion it might Director of the Dutch National Museum credit for everything from bats to whales, be a unique race. Presumably, he learned of Zoology at Leiden, Dr. Fredericus while she was his artist and often co- that the subspecies had been named after Anna Jentink (1844–1913) was also a author. At least Dr. George Hartmann, him before he was killed when a tracker fell member of the International Commission who sent two zebra skins to the Berlin on him. He and his wife are buried on their on Zoological Nomenclature, a still Museum, had his sub-species named after farm. The Internet sadly reveals that their existing organization charged to “achieve his wife, Anna. An official in the German graves have been severely vandalized. stability and sense in the scientific naming South West Africa government, he died in Scotsman Mr. Joseph Thomson (b. of animals” – probably an arch-foe of SCI’s a refugee camp in Schleswig-Holstein in 1858) was second-in-charge on his first highly personalized taxonomy. He was 1946; Anna died in 1941. Royal Geographic Society expedition to the first person to collect the eponymous There’s also A. H. Neumann (hartebeest), Kenya and Tanzania (1878-1884), when Jentink’s duiker in 1884. The species sort Grevy (zebra), the mysterious and wealthy its leader died of dysentery in southern of disappeared from scientific literature F.R. Roberts (gazelle), entrepreneur and Tanzania. The first to explore Masailand until a skull was found in Liberia in 1948. sportsman Sir Robert Harvey (duiker), with its Thomson’s gazelles or “tommies,” Colonel J. H. Patterson, of Tsavo lion who made his fortune in mining gold and he completed the 3,000-mile, 14-month fame, for whom East Africa’s Patterson diamonds in South Africa and, of course, safari, impressing the locals with his eland is named, not only had a client Teddy Roosevelt himself, with five species “magic” by removing his dentures. die of a gunshot wound, he then buried to his name. Thomas famously wrote: “In my opinion him and continued the safari with the the travellers’ strength would lie more in widowed Mrs. Blyth, giving Hemingway In good hunting, his manner toward and treatment of the his story, “The Short Happy Life of Francis natives than in his guns and revolvers.” Macomber.” In WWI, the pro-Israel Irish And: “He who goes slowly, goes safely; he Protestant commanded the Jewish Legion who goes safely, goes far.” Weakened by of the British Army. Patterson lived in multiple African maladies and a goring by California for a number of years, and his africanhuntinggazette.com 7 News & Letters On Linda Lemon, Artist in Africa in AHG Vol. 20, Issue 3 Dear Brooke, When three crates of African trophies arrived at my doorstep, one held my long- First of all, I think the African Hunting awaited African elephant ear-painting. This Gazette is one of the finest conservation- highly prized piece of African artwork now minded magazines I’ve ever subscribed to. adorns my African and North American The articles are well written, poignant to our Wildlife Museum. times and, most importantly, informative. Everyone who views the many specimens The photo and advertising layouts are very I’ve collected from around the world feels well done, and both speak volumes as to the that Linda’s Big Five painting is one of the professional care you all give to bring the finest examples of African art they could very best to like-minded conservationists imagine, which says a lot about Linda’s and hunters. I look forward to receiving talent. each issue of the AHG and read it from To me, it’s one thing to paint a likeness cover to cover. of an African animal on a piece of canvas, In the Spring, 2015 issue, you published and yet another to do it on an elephant’s ear. a very informative article about one of Linda does both with admirable charm and Africa’s most talented artists, Linda Lemon. grace. As a lover of fine art, I truly appreciated reading about Linda’s life and artistry. This Respectfully, article brought my mind’s-eye back to Artist Linda Lemon was highly January, 2010, when I harvested my second Lloyd L. Smrkovski, Ph.D. recommended by Highveld Taxidermy, “problem” elephant in Botswana. Commander, United States Navy-retired who matted the elephant-ear painting on a I had my trophies, including the Claremont, New Hampshire, USA red felt background and framed it in Cape elephant’s left ear, transported to Highveld ironwood before shipping it to the States. Taxidermists, Inc. in South Africa. When I told the fine folks at Highveld that I wanted an oil painting of the Big Five on sketches, e-mailed them to me, and we put the elephant’s ear, they gladly and without the final touches on the project. reservation recommended Linda Lemon. A few months later Linda e-mailed me When I returned to the United States, a photo of the finished product. It was I e-mailed Linda, introducing myself and magnificent! Highveld expertly matted it on asking if she could help me. Her answer a red felt background and, per my request, was affirmative. We exchanged a few e-mails framed it in my favorite African wood, regarding the layout, and we soon came Cape ironwood. up with an excellent plan. Linda did a few The objectives of this program are: • To help clients make a better a decision when selecting their outfitter • To offer clients greater peace of mind when actually booking their safari • To help professional hunters and outfitters save money and get more clients. When hunter Lloyd Smrkovski killed a problem elephant in Botswana in 2010, he wanted a Big Five painting to be made on the elephant’s left ear. 8 africanhuntinggazette.com