Hey Ted !!
I usually keep old magazines with some interesting articles so I can read them again from time to time.
Just yesterday I note that one of the oldest and favourite magazines of my collection has THREE articles written by you !!

Sportsman GUN ANNUAL Volume 4 Number 1 1984
Tight-cover bear guns
The perfect antelope gun
Big game Down Under

Great articles !!
L

Thanks Lorenzo,

Time flies. That was 22 years ago. That was the first year I visited Africa. I remember I went and helped Bryan Findlay Cooper build camps at a place where the Lukusuzi River enters the Luangawa River in Zambia in 1984.

The editor was either Hal Swiggett (who won Outstanding American handgunner Award) who hunted bears with me in Canada and then took me to the Weaver Scope plant in El Paso Texas to shoot silhouette with the late Slim Pickens and then to do the only handgun hunting I have ever done (javelina) or else it was Lamar Underwood who at one time had been the editor of Outdoor Life. In 1984 both were working for Harris publications.

They used to buy stories in batches of five, instead of one at a time, which was handy for a free lancer.


VBR,


Ted Gorsline

Seeing as how it has been 22 years do you think you could reprint them here for our viewing.Be interesting to see how they stand the test of time.If you elect not to, no hard feelings of course.I know some here can get a bit critical and you may just not get em started.

It seems they have aproved the test of the time examination. 22 years ago Ted said that the 375 H&H and the 9,3x64 were the best all arounders for african hunting..

I will try to scan them and send them to Nickudu or someone else to see if they can be posted here.

L

Ted - you mentioned bryan findlay cooper - do you know what relationship he was to stuart findlay cooper? I hunted that same area with him a few years ago & I still think he was the best PH I ever had

Dear Lorenzo,

I don't mind if you post them. I can't remember what is in them. The main problem is they are so dated and so much has taken place since then that much of the information, especially in regards to bullet develoment, is likely obsolete.

But I don't mind getting roasted. I can defend myself with snide remarks.


VBR,


Ted Gorsline

Dear Bucthloc,

Bryan Findlay Cooper, who they sometimes call "the Old Man" in Zambia, is Stuart Findlay Cooper's father. He had another son named Donald who died a few years ago. His wife Cathy has also died I hear. His father was the first white trader in northern Zambia. When he first went to remote parts of northern Zambia as a boy the black people had never seen a white person.

Bryan, who must be around 85 by now, is one of the finest men I have ever met. He is virutally fearless. I have followed both wounded lion and buffalo with him and there is no where they go that he won't go.

I do not think of him as a professional hunter. I think of him as a white hunter. He is from the old school and cut from the same mould as Bell and Sutherland.

He has done and seen all kinds of things some of which I am reluctant to relate because they seem quite unbelieveable.

But a minor example is he built the airstrip in Livingston Zambia when he was 18 years old. He single handedly quelled a riot of 1,800 unpaid workers there with only his fists. He used to run 15 miles a day and box alot when he was a boy and so could do this by concentrating on their leaders.

He is a kind hearted, mild and gentle man until the shit hits the fan and then he reacts perfectly according to the situation. I admire him alot.


VBR,


Ted Gorsline

thanks ted - from your description I can see where stuart got it from.

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Originally posted by Lorenzo:

Sportsman GUN ANNUAL Volume 4 Number 1 1984
Big game Down Under

I would love to see the article named above. Any chance of a scan being able to be emailled?

John,
No problem at all.
L