Hunting for Food 1972

Rangaria, in the white coat, owned the Peugot pickup and Zed, who had broken his arm, and I took off one evening and set up camp out in the bush and shot a gazelle for supper. We kept running over thorn bushes and getting flats and you can see the truck up on a jack. On the roof of the truck is the remains of the "Tommy". Rangaria is carrying my Model 94 which is a 32 Special. Ammo totally unavailable in East Africa. I took about 60 rounds and after 3 years still had some left. It was killing not for sport but for food. We ate wildebeast, zebra, gazelle, impala, eland, cape buffalo, hippo but preferred the smaller game as it was so much easier to dress out and load in the bush.
Slaughtering a couple tons of buffalo and getting it loaded in a truck is not a cake walk. We would go for zebra and wildebeat mostly. Very good eating. And the whole village would celebrate. Siso has an old Remington 30-06. He is Luo and Rangaria is Zanaki but we all spoke Swahili.
Actually it is now required, to hunt buffalo, calibre 375 or greater. We used smaller calibre; in this case 300 Win Mag, 308, 30-06 and the 32 Special. It took eight shots to stop the buffalo and we had to follow him into the scrub, in retrospect, not a wise thing to do with small calibre. Siso and I are pretending we killed it with the 32 Special. Don't let that fool you.