A target-rich land -- the Dark Continent offers a type of hunting Michael Waddell never dreamed about growing up in Booger Bottom, Georgia.
Unlike Roosevelt, who came to collect everything Africa has to offer, for himself and the Smithsonian, I came for one thing, but would hunt many things. I came for Cape buffalo. Nothing like easing into a safari.
Thinking about safari? Start here bwana.
It was a different time and place...
Pound for pound, few African animals embody the tenacity of this desert warrior.