Most folks have probably never seen this, it's Peter Capstick's pic from the UVA yearbook.

If anyone else has pics of PHC they are willing to share, let this be the place...

Enjoy.

I have Peter to thank for starting me on this great passion in Life. Godspeed Peter.

I think PHC has cause more headaches for wives than most can imagine..

RIP, my friend.

PHC was the first writer of African hunting who captured my imagination as a youngster.

He was a great writer who could make one feel that they were there.

I enjoy his style and his stories. Even if they were a bit colorful.

Thank you Peter I hope that wherever you are the hunting is good, the scotch aged, and the campfires warm and inviting.

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Originally posted by surestrike:
PHC was the first writer of African hunting who captured my imagination as a youngster.

He was a great writer who could make one feel that they were there.

I enjoy his style and his stories. Even if they were a bit colorful.



Thank you Peter I hope that wherever you are the hunting is good, the scotch aged, and the campfires warm and inviting.

And not to mention the South American fever he also has caused for many sportsmen.

Including me.....

PETER CAPSTICK AND MYSELF GRADUATED FRIM HIGH SCHOOL. I HAVE CLASS PICTURES, BUT DON'T KNOW HOW TO POST THEM. SEND ME E-MAIL ADDRESS AND I WILL FORWARD THGEM TO YOU FOR POSTING...
captkirwan@shorenet.net
THANKS........CAPT.BOB

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I have Peter to thank for starting me on this great passion in Life.

Many of us can trace some of our earliest curiosities to Capstick's books. I don't know if we ought to be thanking him or cursing him. It's a bit like an alcoholic fondly remembering the improvident person who gave him his first drink.

I think DEATH IN THE LONG GRASS was what got me into Africa.

Wilbur Smith was cool but Capstick was the ultimate. I was hooked on hunting before I read my first Capstick book. But Capstick got me addicted

One of my father's books in his library was USE ENOUGH GUN. That's what got me interested in Africa. I have that original book of my dad's in my own African library. Funny thing regarding Capstick happened to me in church not long ago. I was sitting listening to a talk being given and looked over at a family sitting ahead of us. The man was reading "Use Enough Gun" while the family was listening intently to the speaker. I guess Ruark was providing him with some of his own "religion".

Me too. I found myself secretly cursing some people who disparaged his reputation. I could care less. It's kind of like my favorite uncle. He may have been an a-hole of the first order, but I don't want to hear all the bad stuff after he's dead and gone....

Godspeed...

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Originally posted by Saeed:
I think DEATH IN THE LONG GRASS was what got me into Africa.

Saeed and others liking the book is what got me to read it.I really enjoyed it.

You know how to read?

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Originally posted by Saeed:
I think DEATH IN THE LONG GRASS was what got me into Africa.

Amazing what can happen from one Arab reading a Capstick book.

Capt.Bob:
Send the pictures to my email if you don't have anyone else to post your high school pics of PHC: kyakerab(at)hotmail.com

John Hunter's book HUNTER first tweaked my interest in the fifth grade. PHC's DEATH IN THE LONG GRASS brought it back to life for me ... and that brought me eventually to searching the internet for cape buffalo hunting info ... and that resulted in my finding a picture of Saeed posing with a 49-INCH BUFFALO with one broken horn tip:

http://www.accuratereloading.com/49buffalo.html

The picture there is now just a red X:



I don't know who is more to blame for my troubles:
Hunter, Capstick, or Saeed?

While I don't have any pictures of Peter, I do fortunately hold the memories dear. Having the opportunity to talk at length with him at several SCi conventions added substance to the late night readings and subsiquent dreams of Africa. While many a PH has cursed Peter for misleading the sports whom choose to give Africa a try, Peter probably did more singlehandedly for the growth and popularity of African hunting during the strong run of his mostly non-fictional accounts.

Yes, Rest in Peace fellow hunter.

I remember scrapping with my older brother to see who would read the Capstick articles first. I believe it was in the American Hunter magazines. Capstick's articles started the first embers in my soul to got to Africa

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Originally posted by surestrike:
You know how to read?

SURE do SUREstrike!

One of my most intense laughs came from one of his books. He told of being very

afraid of snakes, and one surprised him in the crapper one night. He went and got

a shot gun and started blasting away at the out-house trying desparately to assure

himself of the death of the wretched creature. The trackers came out to see what

all the shooting was about and asked why BWANA was shooting the hell out of the crapper.

I was just dieing, laughing so hard that I was crying. He described the scene and action

with such detail that I was seeing it with perfect clarity in my mind. I am laughing

right now as I type this... I then showed the passage to a co-worker who also

was a hunter. He started to read it aloud and we cracked ourselves up again!

Hemingway and Ruark got me started wishing as a young man. Capstick stuck the knife in. I worked in Africa and became highly dissolusioned with it, but hunting there, thanks to Capstick's yarns, gave me a new lease on life and showed me a side of Africa that only a priviledged few ever get to experience.

I'm a lot poorer financially for the experiences, but I wouldn't trade that Buffalo hunt for anything.

Capstick is oft maligned for his charachter, but there are literally hundreds of PH's, booking outfits and concession holders who would be a lot less well off if Capstick hadn't spun his tales of high adventure.

RIP

jet drivr well said... I too fell in love and dreamed of hunting Africa after reading 'Death in the Long Grass''...
I had to the pleasure of calling PHC from a summer vacation in Florida while he lived in Naples, Fl. Spoke with him at length about Africa and hunting...You would have thought I was talking to a life long friend for the time we spoke to one another.
I have read and reread his books and did live my life long dream of taking my wife to the Selous last summer... Still smiling from the hunt and giant ele I bagged...

Mike

Mike