Buffalo in the Dande

The Buffalo’s trail disappeared into Africa’s legendary long grass. I had just put a second solid into the old bull. The first round had hit him an hour before, in front of the shoulder as he quartered toward me, taking out a single lung, but unfortunately missing the heart. Cape buffalo can live a long time on one lung, days as professional hunter Len Taylor would tell me later. But at this moment Taylor only said “Now it gets dangerous.”

[Continue reading "Trail's End" in the June/July 2025 issue of Petersen's HUNTING]

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