1950's (probably) missionary family in Ethiopia somewhere.
How's THAT for a Menelik's bushbuck?!!

Just living the simple life.
Love all bushbuck.

Konjo.

Nice!

Please provide gun i.d., guesses included. The pix comes from Mama Ediger's book, "Worth It All" p. 55 self-published in 2001 printed by Mennonite Press, Inc., Newton, KS.

The "deer meat" reflects a lower Dutch background in Kansas. I presume, ("diere" being animals as in Afrikaans?) that venison is all known as deer meat. Permission to hunt is granted by the local governors in 1956, the area being Goba in the then Harar Province near Ghinir. In fact, p. 85 references a "great big deer" taken a bit east, but still in mountain nyala country in April 4, 1958!!!! "[There was] enough meat for all of us on the compound..." God bless all missionaries who took pix!!!

That looks like a Browning pump action .22!

But then - locals, farmers and planters in those days (even into the 70s) used any firearm available.

My dad shot 2 tigers in 1951 & 53 with a Spanish Astra hammer shotgun with Lethal Ball & LG!

Might it be a Model 25 (Remington)? "Colteer" (Colt's) or Browning pump action rifle of some sort as Naki suggests? Hate to think he used a .22 for big game, but that is entirely possible.

I swear the man looks like Murray Burnham, the inventor of Burnham Brothers Game Calls. He hunted Africa around that age. Sure could be his twin though.

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Originally posted by Dave Fulson:
I swear the man looks like Murray Burnham, the inventor of Burnham Brothers Game Calls. He hunted Africa around that age. Sure could be his twin though.

You are 100% correct it looks like Murray!

I was sitting in the Bluebonnet Cafe in Marble Falls the other day eating lunch and had a picture of Murray of about that vintage dressed just like that. He was holding up a big rattler.

What ever happened to Murray and his bother? When I was a kid in the early 70's...I used to go in his store all the time. Killed many a coyote, fox, and bobcat with my trusty Burnham Bros. call.

Lane
Murray use to fish on my family ranch but I havent heard from him in a couple of years. I may still have his phone number somewhere-I should call him.

SSR

Dave PMed me and said both he and Winston had passed...good men they!

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Originally posted by Dave Fulson:
I swear the man looks like Murray Burnham, the inventor of Burnham Brothers Game Calls. He hunted Africa around that age. Sure could be his twin though.

Herb Ediger, missionary with SIM, from Inman, KS. Obeyed Jesus, raised a family as a builder -- lots of travels and adventures in southern Ethiopia. Passed to glory at an old age despite all the malaria, etc. normal to mission life of the day. His son, Merle, was in my class at Bingham Academy and is now serving in South America. Spanish, Merle? Really??! :-)