Preparing for an African Safari
Backcountry Hunting Podcast
Joseph von Benedikt
4.9 • 1.1K Ratings
🗓️ 1 August 2025
⏱️ 67 minutes
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Summary
You've dreamed the dream and made the plan. Now, you're about to depart for a big game safari in Africa! How do you prepare properly?
This episode, we sit down with Tate Bradfield, who is about to leave for his first-ever safari—and he's after Cape Buffalo... the legendary Black Death. We talk through his choice of cartridge and rifle, how to shoot well and reload fast and sure under stress, and much more. ENJOY!
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| 0:00.0 | Wow. |
| 0:01.1 | You're going to Africa. |
| 0:02.4 | I am going to Africa. |
| 0:03.7 | This is going to be great. |
| 0:04.7 | This is nuts. |
| 0:05.4 | Folks, we have had a lot of African-oriented material content recently. |
| 0:12.5 | And I think that's for a couple reasons. |
| 0:14.4 | One, of course, is it's kind of safari season. |
| 0:17.2 | Everybody's got the bug. |
| 0:18.2 | Everybody's talking about it. |
| 0:19.8 | Tate, my good pal here, is off to Africa for his first time. |
| 0:23.5 | Not only is his first time in Africa, he's hunting his pinnacle species, Cape Buffalo. |
| 0:28.8 | Yes. |
| 0:29.4 | With a legend. |
| 0:30.7 | Our mutual mentor and friend Ron Spalmer show. |
| 0:35.1 | Man, I'm considerably envious. I can't, I don't know where it's going to go up from here. I'm shooting at Cape Buffalo with somebody that I've idolized my entire life. Yeah. That if you'd ask me two or three years ago, like, you know, are you going to get to know Ron Spomer? I've been like no much less go to africa with him right so |
| 0:55.6 | it's uh it's going to be a fun experience but yeah i don't know what to expect and i think that's |
| 1:01.0 | one of the reasons i asked i was like we should we should talk about this and sit down because i don't |
| 1:05.2 | know what i'm doing so that's our purpose today folks we're going to do a little Q&A with Tate. |
| 1:11.5 | He's going to pick my brain vacant, though it is. |
| 1:15.9 | He seems to think there might be something of value there about preparing to go. |
| 1:20.0 | You're leaving next week? |
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