Stand Your Ground (Big Game Hunting Memoir Series Book 2)

This book is the SECOND in the series of six that comprises the author’s big game hunting memoirs. It covers the period 1961 to 1964 and describes the author’s maturing years as a big game hunting game ranger. In the beginning, the author was briefly mentored by a more experienced game ranger, who took great pains to teach him how to kill an elephant cleanly with a single brain shot; but he was shown only once how to shoot a buffalo. Then he was let loose to hunt any and all of Africa’s dangerous ‘Big Five’ game animals on his own. When he first went hunting them, however, he realised there were gaps in his hunting competence that you could drive a bus through; and he had to rely on his Bushman trackers to help him fill in the gaps. This was a very exciting time in the author’s life but it was also a very dangerous time because he truly was not fully competent to do what was expected of him. This book is all about how he filled in those gaps, and how his Bushman trackers brought him up to a state of complete big game hunting proficiency. By the end of this period, at age 24 years old, he had become a highly experienced big game hunter. Some of the bizarre hunting adventures he went through in the process, however, would have put the fear of God into most people.