First-time big game hunter

Cheryl Darlington leans her elbows on A large boulder and steadies a .375-caliber Holland & Holland Magnum against a rock - the gun dwarfs her small-frame, as she tries to camouflage herself into a large outcropping of rocks.

Her eyes dart from one end of the African landscape to the other as she tries to slow her breathing. It's day one of an eight-day African safari hunting trip in Namibia, and Darlington's first kill is just seconds away.

For the past four years Darlington has spent her days ringing up customers' fuel and gas station purchases as assistant manager at the Emporium Food and F...