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Marc Pechenart
07 July 2015, 11:35
StormsGSPMarc Pechenart
I recently came across Marc Pechenart- who has a number of top elephant records, and has hunted all over the world. Seems like he enjoyed some really incredible hunting in his time. Did anyone know him? Any other pics of his hunts? What happened with all this monster ivory when he passed away?
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"I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived. -Henry David Thoreau, Walden
Wow!!! some incredible stories in those hunts!!!!
Nick
07 July 2015, 16:39
ChristopheMorioMarc Pechenart was a famous french elephant hunter. He shot many 100 pounders. he used to hunt in the eastern part of CAR in June and July. I met him in 1995 at his house and believe me there was some heavy tusks !!!!!
Christophe
08 July 2015, 02:31
Use Enough Gun
08 July 2015, 02:33
Gayne C. YoungI interviewed him about his gharial hunt before he passed. great guy
http://www.outdoorlife.com/blo.../2010/06/last-trophy08 July 2015, 02:38
Gayne C. YoungThis one has pics
http://gametrails.org/the-last-gharial/08 July 2015, 05:12
medvedquote:
Originally posted by ChristopheMorio:
Marc Pechenart was a famous french elephant hunter. He shot many 100 pounders. he used to hunt in the eastern part of CAR in June and July. I met him in 1995 at his house and believe me there was some heavy tusks !!!!!
Christophe
ever met Xavier?
08 July 2015, 05:58
AilsaWheelsquote:
Originally posted by Gayne C. Young:
This one has pics
http://gametrails.org/the-last-gharial/
Thanks for the article and photo.
08 July 2015, 09:33
ManuelMThe upper picture is the current SCI world record and it had tusks weighting 154x148 lbs, the other impressive tusker is number 5 in the record book and had tusks in the 130plus lbs category, truly impressive trophies!
Quite incredible to think the man shot many more record class jumbos and other world class trophies like that gharial.
08 July 2015, 18:23
StormsGSPSo cool. What did he do for a living? Are these trophies all in a museum in France somewhere?
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"I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived. -Henry David Thoreau, Walden
08 July 2015, 19:07
BaxterBGood stuff. I love the stains on the tusks in the pic.
08 July 2015, 19:58
TANZ-PHthere's lots stories & photos of him in book by Tanzania PH Terry Irwin. Its a great read.
If I remember correctly, He passed up a bull over 100 pounds that Terry advised him to shoot, but he later shot 3 bulls on one safari in Madaba, central Selous GR: Two were over 100# and one 80# (a mistake!). Amazing! I think this was in the late 1960s. (In 1964 Alice Landreth shot a bull in Selous K-3 block: 141 & 91 (broken tusk). The good ole days!!)
The bull Marc passed up was later shot by another client and went 120 each tusk (according to Terry !)
The 154/148 bull he shot in
M'Bomou, CAR. 1970. In same place he also shot a bull 126 x 122, & one 120 x 113. Plus several more over 100 lbs!
No doubt he was the most serious hunter of trophy elephants in modern times.
08 July 2015, 21:04
MJinesTerry's book is very good. There was another incident with Marc discussed in the book, as I recall on Marc's third safari with Terry. He was insistent that he would not shoot any elephant less than 100 pounds. They found an elephant with long tusks that Terry and his tracker thought would go between 95-105 pounds. The tracker was encouraging Marc to shoot it. Marc told Terry to tell the tracker that he would shoot it, but that if either tusk did not weigh at least 100 pounds he would cut off one of the tracker's fingers . . . they ended up passing on that elephant.
Mike
08 July 2015, 21:35
TANZ-PHYes, one of the best stories in the book. that tracker was pissed! Some really great photos in that book too.
I have heard a some people say that the Selous Game Res. was never capable of producing truly large ivory.....They are very wrong.
08 July 2015, 22:10
Ahmed SultanWhen I was in CAR hunting LDE, I asked our operator about Elephants in the area, his reply was a very sorry tale. He told me that right up to the early 80s they would pass 80 pounders in the first five days of hunt and many 100 pounders came out of that area. He also said that now the situation is that I will be very lucky to see a single elephant on my 14 days hunt. He was right, I never saw any elephants there.
Ahmed Sultan
09 July 2015, 03:45
boarkillerAnd I would tell Marc back, you touch my finger and you gonna loose your pecker.
Sounds like a bit pompous ass, but gotta give him the fact, he was determined and didn't shoot anything what looked marginal.
That is Truly a Trophy Hunter in my book even if he was an ass...
" Until the day breaks and the nights shadows flee away " Big ivory for my pillow and 2.5% of Neanderthal DNA flowing thru my veins.
When I'm ready to go, pack a bag of gunpowder up my ass and strike a fire to my pecker, until I squeal like a boar.
Yours truly , Milan The Boarkiller - World according to Milan
PS I have big boar on my floor...but it ain't dead, just scared to move...
Man should be happy and in good humor until the day he dies...
Only fools hope to live forever
“ Hávamál”
09 July 2015, 11:52
DCS MemberWow! More respect for the French in my book. Wow!
I meant to be DSC Member...bad typing skills.
Marcus Cady
DRSS
09 July 2015, 12:01
Bockhunterquote:
there's lots stories & photos of him in book by Tanzania PH Terry Irwin. Its a great read.
Please: The name of the book.
Where I can buy this great book?
09 July 2015, 17:36
MJinesThe book is Memoirs of an African Hunter by Terry Irwin. It was published by Safari Press but is no longer in print. If you check Amazon, Alibris, Abe and other places they occasionally show up. Some are stupid expensive but sometimes you can find one more reasonably priced.
Mike
09 July 2015, 20:52
shakariquote:
Originally posted by Bockhunter:
Please: The name of the book.
Where I can buy this great book?
One here for USD15.75
http://www.shakariconnection.c...ter-books.html#irwin
10 July 2015, 00:23
AilsaWheelsquote:
Originally posted by shakari:
quote:
Originally posted by Bockhunter:
Please: The name of the book.
Where I can buy this great book?
One here for USD15.75
http://www.shakariconnection.c...ter-books.html#irwin
Thanks for the info Steve!
I just bought one.
Quite a price range...$15.75 - $1,200.
10 July 2015, 00:30
jbderunzMarc died two years ago. He was the best friend of a close friend, Rene who was in charge of hunting in the whole West Africa, a french Percival. Both living in Normandy and having fun in Marc's hunt property and of course fly fishing.
Marc was in charge of the french president hunts, no minor task, having as guests world heads of state.
He considerably hunted in Africa and got incredible trophies. One of my friend's job, as an expert, was to clear his trophies through CITES requirements, and believe it or not, even though they were got before CITES setting up, so far not more than half his trophies are considered legal according to CITES criteria. Despite Marc's long arm in politics.
He also hunted game in Africa with a revolver. In my town Saverne, hunters remember a hot post-hunt evening, when Marc shot a couple of bottles in the hunting cottage of the fallberg.
I was priviledged to meet him a couple of times and I am going to look for pictures of our meeting0
His son Xavier, pushed very hard to have bowhunters legalized in France. He was CEO of the French bowhunting club till 1990.
A pity that Marc Pechenard didn't write his memoirs be they about Hunting or politics. A lot of old hand french hunters and PHs didn't let records of their adventures. Apart hear say, theses memories are forever lost.
J B de Runz
Be careful when blindly following the masses ... generally the "m" is silent
10 July 2015, 00:37
MJinesFour new copies for $30 shipped.
Mike
10 July 2015, 00:48
fla3006That is a helluva deal. Terry also guided Bobby & Abby Burns of Wichita Falls, TX. I think he lives in South Africa, I have an email from him somewhere regarding the Burns.
NRA Life Member, Band of Bubbas Charter Member, PGCA, DRSS.
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10 July 2015, 01:07
kallie404Terry Irwin lives in a town called Eshowe in Kwazulu Natal. This past November I have been lucky enough to visit him at his house in Eshowe. He truly has some wonderful stories!! He also had only two copies left of "Memoirs of a African hunter" that I bought from him and he signed them for me. Terry still regularly writes hunting stories for the South African hunting magazine called Magnum. It was a privilege to meet him .
10 July 2015, 04:00
AilsaWheelsquote:
Originally posted by TANZ-PH:
I have heard a some people say that the Selous Game Res. was never capable of producing truly large ivory.....They are very wrong.
In Eric Balson's first book there is a photo of two sets of ivory that came out of the Selous in 1971.(poached) One set both tusks are in the 160's, the other set both tusks are in the 150's, if memory serves me correct.
In the 60's I tagged along with my dad as he was hunting an elephant in the Selous. When the bull rested, he rested his head on his tusks. When he crossed some streams, he would have to back out due to his tusks being in the way. We did not get him.
Yes, the Selous had some great ivory in the day.
10 July 2015, 05:18
medvedquote:
Originally posted by jbderunz:
Marc died two years ago. He was the best friend of a close friend, Rene who was in charge of hunting in the whole West Africa, a french Percival. Both living in Normandy and having fun in Marc's hunt property and of course fly fishing.
Marc was in charge of the french president hunts, no minor task, having as guests world heads of state.
He considerably hunted in Africa and got incredible trophies. One of my friend's job, as an expert, was to clear his trophies through CITES requirements, and believe it or not, even though they were got before CITES setting up, so far not more than half his trophies are considered legal according to CITES criteria. Despite Marc's long arm in politics.
He also hunted game in Africa with a revolver. In my town Saverne, hunters remember a hot post-hunt evening, when Marc shot a couple of bottles in the hunting cottage of the fallberg.
I was priviledged to meet him a couple of times and I am going to look for pictures of our meeting0
His son Xavier, pushed very hard to have bowhunters legalized in France. He was CEO of the French bowhunting club till 1990.
A pity that Marc Pechenard didn't write his memoirs be they about Hunting or politics. A lot of old hand french hunters and PHs didn't let records of their adventures. Apart hear say, theses memories are forever lost.
JB i met Marc with the late Robert J Montvoisin in two different occasions and those stories ....
yes Xavier worked hard for bow hunting in France. great time with those life lover people.
11 July 2015, 11:17
jbderunzA picture I took of Marc at the country show in Chambord, with Luc and Rene.
J B de Runz
Be careful when blindly following the masses ... generally the "m" is silent
11 July 2015, 19:56
boarkillerquote:
Originally posted by MJines:
The book is Memoirs of an African Hunter by Terry Irwin. It was published by Safari Press but is no longer in print. If you check Amazon, Alibris, Abe and other places they occasionally show up. Some are stupid expensive but sometimes you can find one more reasonably priced.
Got it Mike
" Until the day breaks and the nights shadows flee away " Big ivory for my pillow and 2.5% of Neanderthal DNA flowing thru my veins.
When I'm ready to go, pack a bag of gunpowder up my ass and strike a fire to my pecker, until I squeal like a boar.
Yours truly , Milan The Boarkiller - World according to Milan
PS I have big boar on my floor...but it ain't dead, just scared to move...
Man should be happy and in good humor until the day he dies...
Only fools hope to live forever
“ Hávamál”
20 July 2015, 22:28
jaegerfrankI just received the book by Terry Irwin, impressive work. Thank you for steering me in that direction.