Article: Africa's spiral horns: hunting the nine spiral-horned antelope of Africa is one of the continent's most rewarding and challenging pursuits.(Cover story)

It was a blistering hot afternoon in northern Cameroon in March 2008, a bit past three o'clock. We'd been on the eland since dawn, and I was hot and tired. But there was a big bull in the herd, so we had to keep going. The eland had watered, perhaps sixty in the group, at least four bulls, including one monster. Now they were standing in shade at the base of a hill across a too-open plain.

We crept and crawled and butt-scooted, and now we were just beyond sensible range, and it was time to study them. PH Guav Johnson started on the right and I started on the left. The big bull was to the left, toward the front of the herd, so for once I spotted him first. He was ...

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