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Capstick: Hunting The African Lion
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 a big, mature African lion.
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 and Sportsmen On Film producer Ken Wilson track lion. In Botswana where the lion hunt takes place, baiting is illegal so lion hunting is a dangerous and thrilling stalking proposition. You hunt lion by finding tracks, looking only for those of a big male, and then following them.
Find out what it’s like to track a big male lion! In the morning you may catch up to him warming himself in the sun. In the afternoon and middle of the day, you might bump him while he’s snoozing in the shade. Late in the day, your sudden encounter might come when he’s beginning to think about hunting, lions being mostly nocturnal predators.