Sam and Rosemary Pancotto Family Trophy Photographs (Many Large Files)

27 June 2009, 20:44

Michael Robinson

Kathi Klimes and her husband, Rick, were given these photos by Sam Pancotto, along with permission to post them on AR.

Kathi sent them to me and requested that I scan and post them.

Needless to say, doing that has been a real pleasure!

For those who don't know of the Pancottos, Sam and his wife, Rosemary, have hunted the world and have taken many, many rare and superb trophies.

In particular, many 100 pound elephant. These are mostly African animals, although there are a few photos of Sam's Asian sheep trophies that are simply amazing.

Perhaps Kathi can chime in with some more information.

Enjoy!

27 June 2009, 21:03

Tim Herald

Thanks to both of you. Those are really interesting old photos.

27 June 2009, 21:36

Kathi

mrlexma,

Thank you for taking the time to post these old photos. I love the picture of Marilyn (Sam's daughter) with her "honeymoon elephant", she still has her manicured fingernails from the wedding!!!

27 June 2009, 21:38

Charles_Helm

Fabulous pictures and trophies!

Thanks to you, Kathi, and the Pancotto family.

27 June 2009, 21:54

Dentist

Thank you so much!
Fantastic pictures!
All the best wishes and greetings to the Pancottos !!!

27 June 2009, 21:57

A.Dahlgren

Amazing, thanks ! Andrew Holmberg guided Sam and his wife to 3 elephants over the magical 100 pound mark on 1 safari ! !

27 June 2009, 22:26

D. Nelson

Absolutely fantastic!!!!

27 June 2009, 22:28

Hunting For Adventure

Truly awesome photos. Wish i was there.

27 June 2009, 22:30

BrettAKSCI

A pair of lions like that with a double rifle!!!!!!! I'm going to have to find a towl to wipe up all the drool!!!!!

Brett

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May fordings never be too deep, And alders not too thick; May rock slides never be too steep And ridges not too slick.
And may your bullets shoot as swell As Fred Bear's arrow's flew; And may your nose work just as well As Jack O'Connor's too.
May winds be never at your tail When stalking down the steep; May bears be never on your trail When packing out your sheep.
May the hundred pounds upon you Not make you break or trip; And may the plane in which you flew Await you at the strip.
-Seth Peterson

28 June 2009, 01:10

Rug

Thanks Kathi and mrlexma. The old pics are amazing, what a life.

28 June 2009, 01:12

Aziz

Thank you MR and Kathi for posting these outstanding photos, it again makes me wish that I could have hunted Africa in the 1950’s.

Regards
Aziz

28 June 2009, 01:33

BigChev4x4

Thanks for posting these amazing photos. Some great elephants and I really like the two lion photo.

Thanks,

Greg

28 June 2009, 01:43

mboga biga bwana

Simply Outstanding Pics !!!!

Seloushunter

28 June 2009, 03:06

john e

Quite nostalgic and extremely tasteful in presentation. Thanks for sharing.

28 June 2009, 03:58

MJines

. . . just one of those elephant, that's all I ask, just one . . .

Thanks for sharing.

28 June 2009, 04:27

Use Enough Gun

Very nice!

28 June 2009, 04:55

Lorenzo

Thank you very much to everyone involved in this topic and special thanks to the Pancotto family for sharing these fantastic pictures with us !!!!

L

28 June 2009, 07:07

SBT

Wow! What a treat. I loved them all, but that photo with the camel as a pack animal for ivory - way cool!

28 June 2009, 07:16

404WJJeffery

A time that will never return. What years are these photos from?

Thank you

28 June 2009, 07:46

River Jordan

Wow!!

28 June 2009, 09:25

JKS

Check this out. Unbelievable trophies from a not so distant past. Look at Trophy Room Photos and the title Tell me about this trophy room. My favorite post on AR.

quote:
Originally posted by Rembrandt1:
A friend stopped by and showed me an old photo album of a remarkable trophy room. Album was amoung some old books his father had collected. I have all 4 volumns of Safari-Press's "Great Hunters & their Trophy Rooms", but have not seen this collection featured. From the looks of the furniture and room I'm guessing these were taken in the 1960-70's.

(Edited) Sorry guys, I removed the photos...since posting this it's now believed the trophy room owner is not deceased. Out of respect to the privacy of the owner I think it would be best not to post these unless he wishes to do so. If there is some way to contact him and receive permission, I'd be happy to put them back up. Hope you understand....Thanks, Rembrandt.

Edit update: Have had several people contact me about reposting these photos, sounds like the collection has been dispersed and no longer exists as it once did. A truly amazing collection and a tribute to a great hunter.

Simply amazing.

John

28 June 2009, 20:21

Kathi

404WJJeffery,

The 60's and 70's, prior to Kenya closing hunting. Marilyn's elephant is from 1975. The Marco Polo is from 1988, and the High Altai Argali is 1989.

28 June 2009, 21:02

Vanderhoef

Those trophies and of course the photos are outstanding!

Anyone have any details about the one involving the camel? I don't recall seeing any other "modern" photos of camels being used.

Very cool!!

28 June 2009, 21:41

Kathi

Camels were used in the Northern Frontier District of Kenya, as these were foot safaris.

There is a great story and photos about Sam and Rose in Andrew Holmberg's book "Out in Africa".

There are other hunts and photos of Holmberg using camels on safari.

An excellent book with fantastic photos.

29 June 2009, 01:51

Mario

simply incredible. What a hunting career mr. Pancotto and family

30 June 2009, 01:46

capebuf

Sam and Rosemary Pancotto are in a league by themselves,what they have done will never be duplicated, they are a piece of history in the hunting world,they are five star people and great friends,God Bless them both..............

30 June 2009, 21:47

Gayne C. Young

I can't even imagine how trips like the above were set up in the days before the Internet and safari shows

01 July 2009, 18:54

surestrike

I am sitting here trying to add up the amount of adventure that is hanging on those walls. Wow!

03 July 2009, 04:33

Michael Robinson

quote:
Originally posted by Kathi:
Camels were used in the Northern Frontier District of Kenya, as these were foot safaris.

There is a great story and photos about Sam and Rose in Andrew Holmberg's book "Out in Africa".

There are other hunts and photos of Holmberg using camels on safari.

An excellent book with fantastic photos.

Kathi, I looked at Holmberg's book this evening, and that very photo, of Sam Pancotto with the camel loaded down with over 200 pounds of ivory, is one of those featured in the book.

I would love to have been able to hunt the N.F.D. in Kenya.

05 July 2009, 00:54

Dentist

Where can I find this article from saga magazine?

I bagged the Big 5 in 7 days by Sam Pancotto

The Nickudu link is down. Can anybody repost the story?

05 July 2009, 04:13

BrettAKSCI

I'm not sure exactly what happened, but I think the Nikudu files are no Nitro Express forums.

Brett

06 July 2009, 19:03

Dentist

Thank you Brett! Couldn`t find anything over there about the Pancottos.

Nobody saved this article?

06 July 2009, 20:20

Charles_Helm

quote:
Originally posted by Dentist:
Thank you Brett! Couldn`t find anything over there about the Pancottos.

Nobody saved this article?

Did you send a PM to Nickudu at NitroExpress or here?

06 July 2009, 22:04

Dentist

Thanks, no, I´m not a member of the nitroexpress forums and I believe Nickudu is away from AR (?) I just thought somebody had saved the pdf.

06 July 2009, 22:12

Charles_Helm

quote:
Originally posted by Dentist:
Thanks, no, I´m not a member of the nitroexpress forums and I believe Nickudu is away from AR (?) I just thought somebody had saved the pdf.

You could check with Kathi and I will try Nickudu.

06 July 2009, 22:15

Dentist

Thank you Charles! Good idea.

28 November 2009, 09:50

TMTAXIDERMY

Sure enjoyed the pics, thanks for sharing!

01 December 2009, 19:29

ghostbird

Fantastic photos !
Take note of the "classic" safari footwear Sam is wearing in a lot of the photos...

02 December 2009, 09:33

BigFiveJack

It makes a guy speechless...

Thanks for the peek.

02 December 2009, 09:45

ozhunter

quote:
Originally posted by mrlexma:
quote:
Originally posted by Kathi:
Camels were used in the Northern Frontier District of Kenya, as these were foot safaris.

There is a great story and photos about Sam and Rose in Andrew Holmberg's book "Out in Africa".

There are other hunts and photos of Holmberg using camels on safari.

An excellent book with fantastic photos.

Kathi, I looked at Holmberg's book this evening, and that very photo, of Sam Pancotto with the camel loaded down with over 200 pounds of ivory, is one of those featured in the book.

I would love to have been able to hunt the N.F.D. in Kenya.

You can still do Camel Safaris in this same area, but unfortunately not hunting.