Professional Hunter, country, and Era....your fantasy hunt

01 December 2006, 05:12

If you could go back in time...who, where, when and for what?

I'll go first...JA Hunter in Kenya around the 1920's for 100lb Elephant/Big 5, and Bongo in the Ituri forest. Un-spoiled land, people, big game bags, and totally wild natives.

01 December 2006, 05:22

Reiter

Sascha Siemel, early 1900Â´s, BrasilÂ´s pantanal, for everything a man could want. Jaguars, boar, deer, capybara, caimans and a lot more. A simple camp with lots of fox hounds ready to go ! Of course, but not only, a spear hunt !

Unspoiled territory, almost nothing of civilization around.

01 December 2006, 05:56

WyoJoe

It would have to be a DG hunt with Harry Selby.

01 December 2006, 06:23

NitroX

If it is any era and one's own fantasy, it would be the wide open days of hunting ivory for profit in the Lado Enclave, Belgian Congo, Southern Sudan, Uganda, Western Kenya/Karamojo, Eithiopia etc.

No PH.

Would us modern hunters be game or have balls enough?

Would we survive?

01 December 2006, 06:39

bulldog563

Full bag in the Cameroon (both forest and savannah including LD Eland, Bongo, Gorilla, Forest Elephant, Giant Forest Hog, Rhino, Dwarf Buffalo, NW Buffalo, Lion, Leopard, Forest Sitatunga, Western Roan, etc...) with Fred Merfield in the 1920's.

01 December 2006, 06:56

pichon1

Lado Enclave with Karamojo Bell in the late 1920s or poaching elephant with Pondoro in Portugese East in the 1930s,howeverif he was busy barroom brawling in Tete I would gladly settle for the company of Wally Johnson or Harry Manners.

01 December 2006, 07:12

BFaucett

Full bag, three month safari in East Africa (Kenya and Tanganyika) in the mid 1950s with Harry Selby. (Yeah, I'm a Robert Ruark fan.)

-Bob F.

"Kenya's Northern Frontier District (NFD) was one of Harry's favorite hunting areas, and hunting there in April 1951, Harry (middle) collected with Bob and Harriet Maytag a huge tusker weighing more than 120 pounds per tusk."

"This Waterbuck was one of the excellent trophies that Robert Ruark collected with Harry on his first safari to Tanganyika in 1952. This safari resulted in Ruark's book, 'Horn of the Hunter'."

Photos and text are from Gail Selby Wentink's web site at:
http://gabrimaun.tripod.com/index.html

And a little tidbit from Gail's guestbook on her web site:

March 5 2006
"I saw the picture of the former Harriet Maytag. She is my mother and alive and well and living in Florida. Enjoyed your website, have a good day. Katie"

01 December 2006, 07:19

MJines

quote:
Originally posted by WyoJoe:
It would have to be a DG hunt with Harry Selby.

Ditto that.

01 December 2006, 09:24

DC300

Bob F,

You read my mind. I don't usually care for drunkards but Ruark was supposed to be a much more interesting fellow with a few pints in him.

01 December 2006, 10:23

JohnHunt

Mine would be with Teddy. Fireside chat after a long day in the field would be fascinating.

01 December 2006, 10:57

TOP_PREDATOR

Tsavo with Colonel J.H Patterson.

01 December 2006, 12:53

jetdrvr

East Africa with Ernest and Mary Hemingway and Philip Percival. Can't think of anyone I'd rather drink warm gin with and listen to around a campfire.

01 December 2006, 13:05

Wink

NitroX, When you get your time machine built save a place for me. It would be easier to get around in those areas then than it is now!

Juba earlier this year:

01 December 2006, 13:28

Ted Gorsline

Jim Corbett in India.

01 December 2006, 17:25

butchloc

how about with lewis and clark - imagine what it would have been like to see the plains griz, golden bear etc., of course it might be fun to have hunted the irish elk, and then again how about having a 577 Trex and go after the old boy

01 December 2006, 18:23

Skinner.

quote:
If you could go back in time...who, where, when and for what?

North America during the Pleistocene, say around 75,000 years ago.

Woolly mammoth, mastadon, giant short-faced bears, saber toothed cats, dire wolves, etc.

01 December 2006, 18:31

husky

quote:
Originally posted by BFaucett:
Full bag, three month safari in East Africa (Kenya and Tanganyika) in the mid 1950s with Harry Selby. (Yeah, I'm a Robert Ruark fan.)

-Bob F.

"Kenya's Northern Frontier District (NFD) was one of Harry's favorite hunting areas, and hunting there in April 1951, Harry (middle) collected with Bob and Harriet Maytag a huge tusker weighing more than 120 pounds per tusk."

"This Waterbuck was one of the excellent trophies that Robert Ruark collected with Harry on his first safari to Tanganyika in 1952. This safari resulted in Ruark's book, 'Horn of the Hunter'."

Photos and text are from Gail Selby Wentink's web site at:
http://gabrimaun.tripod.com/index.html

And a little tidbit from Gail's guestbook on her web site:

March 5 2006
"I saw the picture of the former Harriet Maytag. She is my mother and alive and well and living in Florida. Enjoyed your website, have a good day. Katie"

I meet Harry Selby and Gail 3 weeks ago in Maun. If it wouldn't be for a unsuccessful knee operation, Harry would still be hunting!

Harry Selby 75 years experience of African hunting, Ken Stewart 65 years experience of African hunting, Me(3+ weeks experience of African hunting...)

Harry is the nicest and hospitable person I ever meet.

01 December 2006, 20:51

juanpozzi

Reiter some of the north of my country Bolivia and Brazil are totally wild with jaguars ,capibaras ,deer ,hogs etc,you can make your dream.
On another matter there is an excellent interwiev to Harry Shelby by Isabel Quintanilla ,Tony Sanches Arnino s wife in the excellent spanish magazine HUNTERS cazadores sin fronteras.Juan

01 December 2006, 21:21

Lorenzo

I am with Ted...Jim Corbett in India !!
L

01 December 2006, 23:44

nainital

Jean Castel, Givaudan, France, 1750Â´s. The mistery of the killer beast of Givaudan has interested me for years and the scarce writings on the subject donÂ´t allow to reach an ending to the many theories.

02 December 2006, 00:30

Use Enough Gun

BFaucett's response has my vote, although hunting ele with Wally Johnson certainly would have been fun.

02 December 2006, 04:13

billinthewild

Tuskers with the likes of John Boyd, James Sutherland, "Iodine" Ionides....but a full bag hunt with Harry Selby, Tony Sanchez Arino, or even Peter Capstick would be hard to beat.

02 December 2006, 06:06

ndlovu

quote:
Originally posted by NitroX:
If it is any era and one's own fantasy, it would be the wide open days of hunting ivory for profit in the Lado Enclave, Belgian Congo, Southern Sudan, Uganda, Western Kenya/Karamojo, Eithiopia etc.

No PH.

Would us modern hunters be game or have balls enough?

Would we survive?

i have to be honest and say i would want to do the same, be an ivory trader in the days gone by, explore new areas where nobody else have been before. to camp at night in a true wilderness. no guide, no nothing. just you and your instinct.

03 December 2006, 10:14

Allout

[QUOTE]Originally posted by BFaucett:
Full bag, three month safari in East Africa (Kenya and Tanganyika) in the mid 1950s with Harry Selby. (Yeah, I'm a Robert Ruark fan.)

-Bob F.

Add me to this list as well. Good pick Mr. Faucett.

Brian