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SEPTEMBER 2014VOL 15 - ISSUE 09SOUTH AFRICAR34.00 [incl VAT]USA $ 6.50OTHER COUNTRIES R29.82 [Tax excl] Women hunters

Bow test: G5’s Prime Alloy

Basic anatomy

Tom Miranda: river monsters

The significance of brace height

Bowhunting tour on motorbikes

Arrow test: Grizzlystik Masaai

125 grain

Warthog in KwaZulu-NatalNorth America’s big catA bow for survival

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CONTENTS

5 The hunting season is at an end

7 From our readers

8 Basic anatomy – the key to understanding shot placement part 1

12 Testing G5's Prime Alloy

16 River monsters

23 Product showcase: rifling for bow and arrow

24 The significance of brace height

27 Dr Adrian de Villiers in Safari Press book

29 The way I see it

31 Bowhunting tour on motorbikes

37 For the kids: colour me in

39 For the kids: a quiz about hippo

41 Test your knowledge

42 Here’s how: North America’s big cat

44 Patience was my success

46 Readers' Trophies

49 Subscribe

50 Blackpowder, blesbuck, bad luck...

53 Broadhead test: Grizzlystik Masaai 125 grain

56 Women hunters are nothing new

61 Bowhunting warthog in KwaZulu-Natal

63 A bow for survival

66 Barky’s notebook

70 Bowhunting opportunities

71 Bows for sale

72 Letter from the rookie

Cover: (Back) Minieke and Anke Steenkamp (front) Karla Steenkamp. Photo taken by Marina Maree, graphics by Andre van Schaik.

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The year is flying past much faster than I have anticipated. Here we are, already publishing the September 2014 issue and it is nearly spring

again! I have so many things I wanted to do this year, but alas, the year is running to an end. Two thirds of the year is past. It was a cold winter in Pretoria and although I am sorry to see the end of this year’s hunting season, I cannot say I am not looking forward to summer.

However, let us return to the present. In this issue, which may well be said to be our spring issue, we are publishing the second article in the series by Tom Miranda. In this article he writes about his quest to hunt a “river monster” or hippopotamus. This name is derived from the ancient Greek for “river horse”, but since it kills more people than all other dangerous African animals, he deems the name “river monster” as more appropriate.

Also in this issue is a new series by Cleve Cheney on shot placement, probably one of the most important aspects of hunting. Jan Herholdt writes about the importance of a bow’s brace height and how it effects the accuracy of the bow. Harry Marx tests another bow and this month it is G5’s Prime Alloy, a bow he says is probably the most accurate bow he has shot in five years! As promised, we are publishing Cleve’s first broadhead test. This month it is Grizzly’s 125-grain Masaai.

As usual we have published a few hunting article and this month we include a blackpow-der hunt as well as a “bike rider” hunt – where the hunters uses motorbikes to drive to and from the game farm. Africa’s Bowhunter will include articles about hunting with other weap-ons similar or related to the bow and arrow in future. We will focus on “paperless” weapons, thus weapons for which one does not need a licence.

I hope you had a wonderful hunting season with many fond memories made in the bush and around the campfire. If you have a memorable hunting story to tell, feel free to send it to Africa’s Bowhunter. Just remember to include a photo or two. Most of the hunting done by the Steenkamps this year was by my three daughters, and thus the reason I included an article in this issue on women hunters.

God bless

Rean SteenkampEditor

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