{"id":15687,"date":"2019-10-22T15:59:34","date_gmt":"2019-10-22T15:59:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/empty-cases.com\/blog\/?p=15687"},"modified":"2019-10-22T16:05:22","modified_gmt":"2019-10-22T16:05:22","slug":"wildcraft-south-africa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/empty-cases.com\/blog\/wildcraft-south-africa\/","title":{"rendered":"WILDCraft: South Africa"},"content":{"rendered":"

My family instilled the love for the hunt inside me. My mother loved to sit in a hickory patch\u2014still as a mouse\u2014squirrel hunting. My father and his trusty Winchester Model 12, 16-gauge prowled the West Virginia hills for squirrel, rabbit, turkey and deer. And my grandfather, with his prosthetic leg and cane, followed coon hounds from dusk until dawn. They always took me along and I relished the adventure. So much so that I made a career out of telling others about the joys of hunting.<\/p>\n

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But, as much as I enjoyed the smell of the wild, the wind in my hair, and the feel of the ground under my feet, what captured my emotions more than anything was the campfire. For a hunter, the campfire is the hub of their life. It is where epic adventures are shared, where friends are made, and where new hunts are planned. While the heat of the campfire warms your soul, the smoke surrounds you like the spirits of hunters from the past.<\/p>\n

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I\u2019ve told many stories about hunting and written many articles about adventures in the field, but I never felt that either were capable of expressing the true emotion of the hunt. When I met Geoffrey Wayland of Fort Richmond Safaris<\/a> six years ago, I found a man\u2014a man trained as a hunter by his father like I was\u2014who was just as passionate about hunting as I am. I also found a magical place nestled in the mountains of Africa\u2019s Northern Cape where I feel like a hunter more than anywhere else in the world.<\/p>\n

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Geoffrey and I had a vision to share the splendor of this place, the adventure it holds, and the fantastic allure and pull of the hunter\u2019s campfire, with as many people as possible. We wanted to do it on video, and we wanted to do it in a way that hunters could relate to, without the chest pounding, want-to-be celebrities, trying to pump up their ego. We wanted to show what a real hunt in the wild was really<\/em> like.<\/p>\n

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With teamed up with Fernando Coelho\u2014a director and producer as passionate about video as we are about hunting\u2014and assembled a team of professional hunters, videographers, and supporting staff to make our dream a reality. Now, after a year of hard work by a lot of dedicated folks, WILDCraft South Africa is a reality. It is available streaming, on demand, through Amazon Prime Instant Video<\/a>.<\/p>\n

If you want to see hunting as it occurs naturally, without all the hype and egotistical noise that detracts from the pure emotion of the chase, watch WILDCraft South Africa<\/a>. You\u2019ll get to see real hunting, and you\u2019ll get to experience what might be the best part of hunting\u2014the campfire\u2014in a way that it has never been captured on film before.<\/p>\n