Article: Gray ghost: success on a kudu hunt is far from a sure thing.

Kudu!" The word sounded, in northern Sotho, exactly as it does in English.

Schalk Potgleter s hand flashed a warning: Do not move. Do not breathe. I waited between Richard, my native tracker, and Schalk, my PH, the three of us partially screened by one of the scrubby clumps of acacia and buffalo thorn that dot the veld. Our eyes were focused almost to the point of pain on another thicket several yards distant. Richard did not waver. He knew where the kudu bull stood, statuelike, amid the sun-splashed leaves of the swiftly vanishing South African day. I tried to follow his gaze. I've always been good at picking out game, but I had no idea where this bull was ...

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