Pierre Van Der Walt Books

Pierre van der Walt is Africa's leading big bore firearms and reloading expert, a renowned author and former founding editor of Safari Times Africa, PHASA News and the Big Bore Journal publications. His firearms and ammunition articles have been published in leading gun magazines across the world.

After qualifying as a lawyer, Pierre served as an officer in the South African military before pursuing a career as a professional hunter. With his exceptional experience in dangerous game hunting, he successfully guided his clients in all the southern African hunting countries.

He is an active firearm, hunting and wildlife conservation lobbyist; rifle, handgun, shotgun and assault rifle instructor; ad hoc lecturer at Professional Hunting academies and post-graduate wildlife management schools.

African Dangerous Game Cartridges by Pierre Van Der Walt (2011) is a very readable and enjoyable book for anyone who loves hunting dangerous game in Africa, even those who were never much interested in how or why the guns and bullets performed. It is full of African hunting anecdotes and photographs... as well as many ballistic diagrams, charts and statistics.

A Kindle version of African Dangerous Game Cartridges is also available.

African Medium Game Cartridges by Pierre Van Der Walt (2018) takes the reader on a grand tour of the history, specifications, design, characteristics, performance, and applications, as well as the reloading quirks, of each of these cartridges. At the end of each cartridge chapter there is a comprehensive range of reloading data for American, European, Scandinavian, African and Australian propellants.

The Complete Professional Hunter's Handbook by Cleve Cheney, David Sutherland & Pierre Van Der Walt (2020) was co-written by three authors whose combined practical hunting experience spans 12 decades. The 24 chapters of this book includes the entire syllabus for a professional hunting course in South Africa. Take a look at full table of contents.

Big Bore Cartridge Load Data Collection by Pierre Van Der Walt (2006) was compiled and written from material collected over more than a decade. Contains virtually everything a shooter/hunter may want to know about reloading and shooting the most popular modern dangerous game cartridges available today. It includes a section on the terminal performance of solids, discusses modern solid bullet designs and provides 1,711 proven reloads for 31 big bore cartridges using the 14 leading brands of propellents available in Australia, Europe, Scandinavia, South Africa and the United States. It is the most complete and extensive such publication ever to have been produced starting with the 9,3x62mm Mauser up to and including the .585 Nyati. This book is currently unavailable and has largely been superceded by 'African Dangerous Game Cartridges'.

Be sure to read Pierre van der Walt's article Bullets For Africa

Page Updated: July 2021