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Capstick: Hunting The African Elephant
Peter Hathaway Capstick, renowned author of “Death In The Long Grass” and many other best-selling African safari books, steps out from behind the typewriter and takes you on an unforgettable experience, unique, ever-changing, challenging, romantic, dangerous and rewarding— hunting “black death,” the African Cape buffalo.
No other modern writer has so influenced African safari hunting as the late author Peter Hathaway Capstick. Indeed, he is only rivalled by the legend himself, Robert Ruark.
Capstick walks the walk in this up-close-and-personal video in which he faces down a Cape buffalo. If you wound a Cape buffalo, as Capstick has described so beautifully, one of you will die, you or the buffalo. Capstick enjoys describing the danger because he understands that danger is what draws hunters to Africa.
Find out what it’s like to track a large herd of buffalo in the limited visibility of heavy mopane scrub and terminalia of the Chobe Region of northern Botswana. Sportsmen On Film producer Ken Wilson gets a great lesson on how to hunt “Nyati” from Capstick and PH Gordon Cundill with a very young PH Jeff Rann in the background. Jeff and Ken take a great bull with exceptionally heavy bosses while Capstick hunts with Cundill for an exciting and never-to-be-seen-again look at this iconic former stock broker turned professional hunter take a Cape buffalo on-camera.
Enjoy the thrill of an African Cape buffalo hunt with the man, the legend, Peter Hathaway Capstick.