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A LEGACY OF CONSERVATION Game Trackers Africa - Rockwood Conservation

Game Trackers Africa's Rockwood Conservation has the ideal combination of family-friendly luxury facilities and wildlife encounters.

The Dreamland called Greenland

Cruising past icebergs in a bright green fjord while glassing for a beast that looks nothing less than prehistoric is as exotic as life gets.

Namibia - The Montana of Africa

The people make Namibia a wonderful first African country to hunt. English is the official language. The roads are great. The landscape makes it an excellent choice for someone that’s hunted other African countries.

5 Costly Mistakes I Made on My First Elk Hunt

I made some rookie mistakes that cost me opportunities at filling my tag. ‍Hopefully my blunders will help other first-time elk hunters avoid making the same errors I did.

Why Safari Club International?

At the annual SCI Convention, a truly great hunters convention, you’ll meet hunters from around the world, and you can truly be a part of the main. It’s past time more of us stood up to be counted.

What Makes A Great Outfitter?

An outfitted hunt is the culmination of hunting dreams. Finding a great outfitter can make the difference between those dreams coming true and your worst nightmares! So let’s try to understand what makes an outfitter great.

SO, What’s A “CBEO Outfitter?”

This past September we opened a new little business, “Craig Boddington Endorsed Outfitters.” Although it has parallels in fishing and bird hunting, it’s an entirely different concept in the world of big game hunting that I’m most familiar with. It’s not a booking agency.

Best Hunt In South Africa

Explore the allure of the ultimate South African hunting safari with our comprehensive guide. Discover the magic of your first hunt, embrace the unexpected, and learn how to select the best-endorsed outfitters for an unforgettable experience with insights from Craig Boddington.

10 Mistakes American Hunters Make in Europe

Americans make up a majority of most European outfitters’ client base. It can be as high as 95% depending on their marketing strategy. Read our list of 10 Mistakes American Hunters Make in Europe and maybe this will help your next European hunting trip be even more amazing.

Top Tips on Bear Safety While Hunting

Right now bear attack risk is higher than normal as resources become scarce, bears are trying to lay on calories for hibernation and hunters are afield. Trust me, I know this first hand. I’m up in Alaska with CBEO member Dave Leonard who is good old friend and owner of Mountain Monarchs of Alaska.

Blogs from craig Boddington

Top 10 Mistakes Hunters Make In Africa

Based on years of experience of hunting in Africa, we have compiled a list of mistakes that you SHOULD avoid to have a successful hunt.

10 Questions To Ask Your Outfitter... Before You Book!

It drives me crazy. Outfitted hunts cost money, so the people who book them must have achieved some success at something. Yet, time and again, I see people making snap decisions regarding hunting that they would never make in business! It’s okay to ask the hard questions, but before you do make sure you know what you want!

The Best Hunt In Argentina

Did you know that Argentina is the world’s most popular hunting destination? Okay, maybe it’s not like key whitetail states like Pennsylvania or New York, where hundreds of thousands of hunters take to the woods annually…nor like Wyoming, where a large percentage of the small population buys hunting licenses.

10 Favorite Hunting Trips

I’m often asked about my favorite hunts. Some have been better than others, but almost no genuine “bad ones”…invariably, there’s a good memory in there somewhere! So a simple and honest answer has always been, “the last one…or the next one.”

Tough Hunts - Dftq Part 1 - (Mantra Of Die First Then Quit)

There were no horns and no meat sacks in the Supercub when we landed. Outfitter Erik Salitan was there to meet me, as was Donna—she’d gotten ill and had flown out a few days earlier. Me, I went full term, continuing to battle terrible weather and never seeing the game I was seeking.

Tough Hunts - Dftq Part 2 - (Mantra Of Die First Then Quit)

(Continued from DFTQ Part 1) The Marco Polo sheep is one of the world’s great game animals, hunted on the “roof of the world” in the Pamirs of Central Asia. As a mere gunwriter this was a hunt I never expected to be able to do,

How I See My Business

Friends, I’ve had a long and wonderful career in this crazy business. I’ve been lucky in that I got some great breaks along the way. I have colleagues who claim they sold the first story they ever wrote and never looked back.

The Toughest Hunt: Conventions!

Some hunts are tougher than others, some are tough physically, while others are tough mentally. On any mountain hunt you know going in that you’re going to sweat, struggle, and huff and puff your way up—and with increasingly bad knees, I know the downhill is going to hurt just as bad.

Bear Country

There was scat along the trails, and long-clawed tracks in just about every wet spot. We were in bear country. More specifically, we were in grizzly bear country. At least one of the bears had marked a tree close by hunting camp with deep scratch marks.

Is The World's Greatest Game For You?

“I didn’t know you could still hunt elephant.” This is one of the first comments I usually hear on the subject of elephant hunting, even among fairly knowledgeable hunters. That’s the first hurdle to get past: In our new millennium, should elephants be hunted? Indeed they should, and indeed they must.

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