The time it takes to read this collection of immaterial waffling, would be better spend in the Bush with a rifle on the shoulder.

Maybe I will start a thread on un-ethical Weatherby award winners. I wonder if that would piss anyone off as much as the Capstick bullshit.

Leave the poor bastard alone and admit he gave us some great reading on a sport that we all love.

Paul C

quote:

Originally posted by surestrike:
Capstick and Sullivan were gay lovers and they both used Marlin lever guns in 45-70 for buffalo hunitng!!

You left out: "while secretly starting the canned lion hunting industry."

I understand that Peter wrote around 20 books, not bad for a so called fraud, and does anyone have a definitive FULL list of all his publications...

Finally is there a PHC website to visit

Cheers, Peter J

quote:

Originally posted by Brett Adam Barringer:

quote:

Originally posted by surestrike:
Capstick and Sullivan were gay lovers and they both used Marlin lever guns in 45-70 for buffalo hunitng!!

You left out: "while secretly starting the canned lion hunting industry."

Don't forget it was all supported by SCI.

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quote:

Originally posted by Balla Balla:
I understand that Peter wrote around 20 books, not bad for a so called fraud, and does anyone have a definitive FULL list of all his publications...

Finally is there a PHC website to visit

Cheers, Peter J

Per wikipedia. his books and videos:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Hathaway_Capstick



A Man Called Lion
African Adventurers: A Return To Silent Places, The
Death in a Lonely Land
Death in the Dark Continent
Death in the Long Grass
Death in the Silent Places
Last Ivory Hunter, The
Last Horizons
Maneaters
Peter Capstick's Africa : A Return To The Long Grass
Sands of Silence
Safari: the Last Adventure
Warrior: the Legend of Colonel Richard Meinertzhagen
[edit]Filmography

Capstick - Botswana Safari
Capstick - Hunting the White Rhino
Capstick - Hunting the African Elephant
Capstick - Hunting the African Lion
Capstick - Hunting the Cape Buffalo
Capstick - Botswana Safari
Capstick's Last Safari

I have the complete set including the capstick reprint library and videos. I don't know if he "really" was a PH, however he was a great wrtier and storyteller.

This is the closest I have come to find a Peter Capstick dedicated website.

Ken Wilson has it seems put a basic one line type (advert page) which promotes Ken's video's

Just as an aside ... Ken apparantly is a good sort of a chap from our (own personal experience) when he visited (some years ago) and filmed at my brother Alan's Dendro Park private ranch in Zambia

Peter Hathaway Capstick .com domain

Keep his fond memories and wonderful stories alive

Peter Hathaway Capstick did his job. I was said to see him go.

SCI's record book is now available online, and I subscribed and did a search for entries with Peter Capstick listed as the professional hunter.

In addition to the elephant mentioned above, Capstick also guided the same Italian doctor to a puku on the same safari. There were no other entries with Capstick as PH, however.

I then checked the doctor's other entries and found Capstick was not his only PH. He has close to a hundred other trophies from all over the world, including elsewhere in Africa, in the SCI records.

Bill Quimby

The same PH who told me about Capstick also said that Ken Wilson is a douchebag. After watching the "Sportsmen on Film" Capstick series I think he is probably correct.

Chipolopolo sent the complete Capstick collection to an AR member with the understanding that it would be passed on to the next member in line after he was done viewing it. Has that happened?

Andy...he DID look sweet in that beret though.

Gary
DRSS
NRA Lifer
SCI
DSC

quote:

Originally posted by adrook:
The same PH who told me about Capstick also said that Ken Wilson is a douchebag. After watching the "Sportsmen on Film" Capstick series I think he is probably correct.

Chipolopolo sent the complete Capstick collection to an AR member with the understanding that it would be passed on to the next member in line after he was done viewing it. Has that happened?

The guy was Hey-man, I'll PM him

quote:

Originally posted by chipolopolo:

quote:

Originally posted by adrook:
The same PH who told me about Capstick also said that Ken Wilson is a douchebag. After watching the "Sportsmen on Film" Capstick series I think he is probably correct.

Chipolopolo sent the complete Capstick collection to an AR member with the understanding that it would be passed on to the next member in line after he was done viewing it. Has that happened?

The guy was Hey-man, I'll PM him

Hey-Man. Are you out there???

I just PM'd him and requested his presence

quote:

Originally posted by adrook:
The same PH who told me about Capstick also said that Ken Wilson is a douchebag. After watching the "Sportsmen on Film" Capstick series I think he is probably correct.

Chipolopolo sent the complete Capstick collection to an AR member with the understanding that it would be passed on to the next member in line after he was done viewing it. Has that happened?

you and chipotle seem to be in pretty close "contact". what's up with that. great mouths-i mean minds- think alike?

quote:

Originally posted by jdollar:

quote:

Originally posted by adrook:
The same PH who told me about Capstick also said that Ken Wilson is a douchebag. After watching the "Sportsmen on Film" Capstick series I think he is probably correct.

Chipolopolo sent the complete Capstick collection to an AR member with the understanding that it would be passed on to the next member in line after he was done viewing it. Has that happened?

you and chipotle seem to be in pretty close "contact". what's up with that. great mouths-i mean minds- think alike?

The word chipolopolo has nothing to do whatsoever with peppers or Mexican food. That wasn't ever clever.

I found another reference yesterday to Capstick’s professional hunting career while reading “Hunting, A Few Memorable Trips,” a book self-published in 1983 by Joseph C. Lawler and Oscar S. Bray.

In the chapter “Mixed Bag In Zambia,” Lawler talks about his 1969 safari in the Luangwa Valley with PH Brian Smith of Luangwa Safaris, and says:

“It was good to hear Peter Capstick, Brian’s fellow professional, tell of hunting jaguar in the Mato Grosso and of enormous strength and agility of the leopard, an animal he considered the most dangerous in Africa. Peter was a writer as well as hunter and his storytelling was a delight.”

The other client in that camp was someone named Jack Buckley, and Capstick was Buckley’s PH.

Trophy fees were ridiculously low then, and Lawler shot elephant, buffalo, lion, and black rhino on that safari. Although Lawler didn’t write about Buckley’s hunting, it probably can be safely assumed that Capstick also guided Buckley to one or more dangerous game species.

Bill Quimby

>>>>>>>The same PH who told me about Capstick also said that Ken Wilson is a douchebag. After watching the "Sportsmen on Film" Capstick series I think he is probably correct.<<<<<<<<<<

I'll let Ken know how you feel the next time I see him.

Bill Quimby

I always find these discussions interesting. It is a fact though, "That a man convinced against his will, is of the same opinion still." I have always enjoyed Capstick's writings. The only thing I can say is if you think he is a fraud, JUST DON'T READ HIS BOOKS. Many story tellers embellish and if you want to call it a lie you are free too. That's the beauty of life you can believe what you want to.

quote:

Originally posted by billrquimby:
>>>>>>>The same PH who told me about Capstick also said that Ken Wilson is a douchebag. After watching the "Sportsmen on Film" Capstick series I think he is probably correct.<<<<<<<<<<

I'll let Ken know how you feel the next time I see him.

Bill Quimby

Go ahead, and while you're at it ask him about trying to cop a free safari from the PH in question because "I'm Ken Wilson" and I make videos. Also ask him how much of the money from the series Fiona and Gordon Cundill saw.

quote:

Originally posted by Brett Adam Barringer:

quote:

Originally posted by surestrike:
Capstick and Sullivan were gay lovers and they both used Marlin lever guns in 45-70 for buffalo hunitng!!

You left out: "while secretly starting the canned lion hunting industry."

you left out "with financial support from SCI".

quote:

Originally posted by adrook:
The same PH who told me about Capstick also said that Ken Wilson is a douchebag. After watching the "Sportsmen on Film" Capstick series I think he is probably correct.

Hi adrook

Hope all is going well for you in the good ol' USA of A ...

Can you please tell me the name of the PH whom you mention, and where is he now guiding or which company he is working for

Cheers, Peter

quote:

Originally posted by Balla Balla:

quote:

Originally posted by adrook:
The same PH who told me about Capstick also said that Ken Wilson is a douchebag. After watching the "Sportsmen on Film" Capstick series I think he is probably correct.

Hi adrook

Hope all is going well for you in the good ol' USA of A ...

Can you please tell me the name of the PH whom you mention, and where is he now guiding or which company he is working for

Cheers, Peter

what you want to bet, he will decline to answer on the flimsy excuse that the PH mentioned asked not to be named. i will be amazed if we see an answer.

quote:

Originally posted by jdollar:

quote:

Originally posted by Balla Balla:

quote:

Originally posted by adrook:
The same PH who told me about Capstick also said that Ken Wilson is a douchebag. After watching the "Sportsmen on Film" Capstick series I think he is probably correct.

Hi adrook

Hope all is going well for you in the good ol' USA of A ...

Can you please tell me the name of the PH whom you mention, and where is he now guiding or which company he is working for

Cheers, Peter

what you want to bet, he will decline to answer on the flimsy excuse that the PH mentioned asked not to be named. i will be amazed if we see an answer.

As was stated a couple of times earlier in the thread the PH doesn't want any part of this so we will keep him out of it. Both chipolopolo and myself have posted honestly and accurately what we were told.

Aaaaah, the anonymous second hand account by someone who lacks the integrity to take credit( or blame)for derogatory comments. why am i not surprised? IF YOU SAID IT- CLAIM IT!!!

quote:

Originally posted by jdollar:
Aaaaah, the anonymous second hand account by someone who lacks the integrity to take credit( or blame)for derogatory comments. why am i not surprised? IF YOU SAID IT- CLAIM IT!!!

I don't owe you anything. I said we have relayed accurately what was said. If you don't believe it, go to Zambia and hunt and ask some of the PHs for yourself.

you are absolutely right. you don't owe me anything and man am i glad of that!

quote:

Originally posted by adrook:
The same PH who told me about Capstick also said that Ken Wilson is a douchebag. After watching the "Sportsmen on Film" Capstick series I think he is probably correct.

Chipolopolo sent the complete Capstick collection to an AR member with the understanding that it would be passed on to the next member in line after he was done viewing it. Has that happened?

I realized I said I was done with this post...oops..pole sana!! But in defence of Mr. Ken Wilson: I've known him a few years (and also guided him once). Let me tell you (from my own personal experience.....not 2nd hand like yours): Ken is a tough hunter, very good shot, and one of the nicest guys I've ever hunted with! (BTW: he appeared to me as a modest gentleman; not a "Been there...done it all" type...that I see way too much of these days!). I've watched many of his videos, and found them well made & entertaining.
Regards the PHC film series: I believe Ken simply allowed Capstick to be Capstick. your statement is not very clear. I'm sure Ken did not write a script for PHC to follow, so why blame him?? If PHC looked badly on film that was his own doing (or undoing).

As PH's, we really don't have the luxury to "choose" our clients... Good, bad or otherwise....we pretty much take whatever bookings we can get. But Ken's an excellent client (who follows advice & shoots very well). it would be a pleasure to hunt with him anyday!

quote:

Originally posted by adrook:

quote:

Originally posted by jdollar:

quote:

Originally posted by adrook:
The same PH who told me about Capstick also said that Ken Wilson is a douchebag. After watching the "Sportsmen on Film" Capstick series I think he is probably correct.

Chipolopolo sent the complete Capstick collection to an AR member with the understanding that it would be passed on to the next member in line after he was done viewing it. Has that happened?

you and chipotle seem to be in pretty close "contact". what's up with that. great mouths-i mean minds- think alike?

The word chipolopolo has nothing to do whatsoever with peppers or Mexican food. That wasn't ever clever.

Drook,
I guess if he's never hunted the 3 animals that "Chipolopolo" is sung for he would'nt know would he, much less the true meaning, (it is not copper bullet)
CHIPOLOPOLO!!!!!

quote:

Originally posted by adrook:
As was stated a couple of times earlier in the thread the PH doesn't want any part of this so we will keep him out of it. Both chipolopolo and myself have posted honestly and accurately what we were told.

It somehow and quite miraculously escaped that steel trap you have for a mind, but you're the only one dragging him into it.

I'm a pretty simple guy. But so far I've managed to keep several thousands of people out of countless threads I had the good sense not to start in the first place.

Managed to think of that.

Have any of you heard of FICTION??!! He went on a few good hunts then went on to write many,many books of embillished STORIES...sold lost of books, EH??!!

quote:

Originally posted by chipolopolo:
Drook,
I guess if he's never hunted the 3 animals that "Chipolopolo" is sung for he would'nt know would he, much less the true meaning, (it is not copper bullet)
CHIPOLOPOLO!!!!!

quote:

Originally posted by 470EDDY:
Have any of you heard of FICTION??!! He went on a few good hunts then went on to write many,many books of embillished STORIES...sold lost of books, EH??!!

I know.

That's what all the killjoys who went on a lot of good hunts and still couldn't manage to squeeze out a decent book keep telling me out of sheer jealousy.

quote:

Originally posted by China Fleet Sailor:

quote:

Originally posted by 470EDDY:
Have any of you heard of FICTION??!! He went on a few good hunts then went on to write many,many books of embillished STORIES...sold lost of books, EH??!!

I know.

That's what all the killjoys who went on a lot of good hunts and still couldn't manage to squeeze out a decent book keep telling me out of sheer jealousy.

well?

quote:

Originally posted by chipolopolo:

quote:

Originally posted by China Fleet Sailor:

quote:

Originally posted by 470EDDY:
Have any of you heard of FICTION??!! He went on a few good hunts then went on to write many,many books of embillished STORIES...sold lost of books, EH??!!

I know.

That's what all the killjoys who went on a lot of good hunts and still couldn't manage to squeeze out a decent book keep telling me out of sheer jealousy.

well?

Well? Do something.

I'm still waiting for a better book.

I'd think that at some point all the guys producing volumes of stuff on how poor the excrement that Crapstick managed to pass off on us unsuspecting illiterates could get their doo-doo together in one nice and tidy neat little pile and off to a publisher.

quote:

Originally posted by billrquimby:
I found another reference yesterday to Capstick’s professional hunting career while reading “Hunting, A Few Memorable Trips,” a book self-published in 1983 by Joseph C. Lawler and Oscar S. Bray.

In the chapter “Mixed Bag In Zambia,” Lawler talks about his 1969 safari in the Luangwa Valley with PH Brian Smith of Luangwa Safaris, and says:

“It was good to hear Peter Capstick, Brian’s fellow professional, tell of hunting jaguar in the Mato Grosso and of enormous strength and agility of the leopard, an animal he considered the most dangerous in Africa. Peter was a writer as well as hunter and his storytelling was a delight.”

The other client in that camp was someone named Jack Buckley, and Capstick was Buckley’s PH.

Trophy fees were ridiculously low then, and Lawler shot elephant, buffalo, lion, and black rhino on that safari. Although Lawler didn’t write about Buckley’s hunting, it probably can be safely assumed that Capstick also guided Buckley to one or more dangerous game species.

Bill Quimby

But Bill, how can this be? Adrook tells us that after years of research and fact finding Peter was never a PH in Zambia.

Of course he quotes an unnamed PH also. Sounds like he and his friend made up a bunch of stuff and now don't know how to get out from under their stories. Or the unnamed PH made it up.

quote:

Originally posted by Gator1:
Of course he quotes an unnamed PH also. Sounds like he and his friend made up a bunch of stuff and now don't know how to get out from under their stories. Or the unnamed PH made it up.

No, no, you've got it wrong.

adrook didn't "quote" the PH.

He's keeping him out of it.

Adrook made a huge point of mentioning that the anonymous Zambian PH we're not talking about is not involved at all in the discussion of his views on Capstick that we are studiously avoiding.

Because that would violate a confidence!

Get with the program!

quote:

Originally posted by China Fleet Sailor:

quote:

Originally posted by Gator1:
Of course he quotes an unnamed PH also. Sounds like he and his friend made up a bunch of stuff and now don't know how to get out from under their stories. Or the unnamed PH made it up.

No, no, you've got it wrong.

adrook didn't "quote" the PH.

He's keeping him out of it.

Adrook made a huge point of mentioning that the anonymous Zambian PH we're not talking about is not involved at all in the discussion of his views on Capstick that we are studiously avoiding.

Because that would violate a confidence!

Get with the program!

Oh, my bad. I didn't understand the subtleties of the situation. The risk of starting unsubstantiated rumours about a man and damaging his reputation would call for the utmost discretion.

adrook's Deep Throat wouldn't want to have his name attached to a truthful expose of a Poseur because he has his sterling reputation as PH and over 40 years of experience to back him up.

But like the mysterious Deep Throat, adrook and chipolopolo have also chosen to hide behind anonymity while choosing to degrade someone who didn't. Seems like a lot of fellows hiding out and throwing rocks from behind the outhouse.

It must be a Character thing.

quote:

Originally posted by Gator1:

It must be a Character thing.

Now you're catching on.

Good character also demands that we call you a douchebag if you point out who has demonstrated, for an absolute fact, that they have a collection of the photos from the 2008 gay pride parade.