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Westley Richards is staffed by passionate hunters and travellers; none more so than our Managing Director, Anthony Alborough-Tregear (everyone calls him Trigger).
We think that matters. Having an experienced adventurer, who has, for decades, hunted dangerous game all over Africa, and other quarry from Alaska to Spain, means every product is designed and assessed from that perspective.
Before a rifle build is agreed and the details entered on the specification sheet, every aspect is subjected to Trigger’s critical eye. Without his hunting experience, he would be far less able to advise usefully on practical issues related to performance and handling.
This close relationship with our products, and with the lifestyles of our clients, is a key part of what forms Westley Richards’s affinity with so many prominent sportsmen from around the world.
Trigger’s most recent hunting expedition added another chapter to that book of lived experience. He travelled to Tanzania to hunt with Rungwa Game Safaris and left with more insights into Africa and the future of hunting there.
Above all, Trigger stresses the sense of privilege he feels about being one of a tiny percentage of humanity that gets to hunt in Africa’s truly wild places. Working with people who do so often can lead one into a false sense that this is normal and mundane. It is anything but.
As with anything one does in life, it is the attitude and humility with which one approaches it that sets the tone for each experience. The small details of each day build and create a lasting impression, which, in turn, lodges in the memory and forms part of a person’s understanding of a place, its people and environment.
Trigger set out for Tanzania in October 2024 with two destinations in his sights: the 920 square kilometer Lokisale Game Controlled Area, in Masailand, and the Rungwa South concession, which stretches to a massive 2,300 square kilometers of wild bush in the south-central sector of the country.
He was hunting with Harpreet Brar, a PH with twenty-five years’ experience, who has a passion for ethical animal selection and an aggressive anti-poaching policy on his concessions.
The sights and sounds of Africa are well recorded and can even be experienced through television. It is the smells that cannot so easily be replicated. The fresh pre-dawn mornings, when the cool air gradually gives way to the heat of the rising sun, soon to be a mere memory as the dust bakes in its glare, the unmistakably bovine whiff emanating from ground where a herd of buffalo has recently passed. These can only be experienced in real time.
These hunting concessions in Tanzania, protected from the ever expanding predations of cattle ranches, which turn the green canopy into beige semi-desert for mile after mile are the last preserve of truly wild Africa.
That these areas we hunt remain intact is something of a miracle in and of itself. Tanzania has protected around 28% of its land mass and is home to forty percent of Africa’s lions; mostly living in its twenty-two national parks.
Population growth puts increasing pressure on the country’s wild areas, having grown from fifteen million people in the late 1950s to almost seventy million in 2025, with projections that it will reach 160 million by 2055. Those people want food and space.
For as long as these special wild places exist, those of us fortunate to be able to travel to them and hunt should savour the experience and promote their protection.
Every day hunting with Harpreet was a day to appreciate. Trigger is acutely aware that it is a privilege to hunt here, not a right, and that the opportunity may not come again.
Hunting ethics in the twenty-first century have evolved from the excesses of the pre-war period, and it is increasingly important to target old animals and focus on the experiences they bring, rather than being ruled by the tape measure and the competitive quest to beat someone else’s trophy score.
Every day in the bush is incredible; the people and the places unique, and the essence of Africa at its best laid-out before us in all its brutal glory.
Trigger recorded this photo-essay of his time in Tanzania. We hope readers appreciate them, as he did the opportunity to take them.
