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Long sleeved shirts, leather boots, No short pants,high tech walking shoes, scopes, range finders, gps, sat phones, airplanes or motorized vehicles, Wow I wonder how they did it without all of our toys. Fun Picture.  Jerry Huffaker State, National and World Champion Taxidermist | ||
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That is way to cool. Thanks Jerry. Mike  | |||
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And some great trophies in there as well! | |||
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And smoking great cigars after! .395 Family Member DRSS, po' boy member Political correctness is nothing but liberal enforced censorship | |||
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I wonder if hairslip was a problem back then too? | |||
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Nice looking eland there on the left. Paul Smith SCI Life Member NRA Life Member DSC Member Life Member of the "I Can't Wait to Get Back to Africa" Club DRSS I had the privilege to fire E. Hemingway's WR .577NE, E. Keith's WR .470NE, & F. Jamieson's WJJ .500 Jeffery I strongly recommend avoidance of "The Zambezi Safari & Travel Co., Ltd." and "Pisces Sportfishing-Cabo San Lucas" "A failed policy of national defense is its own punishment" Otto von Bismarck | |||
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Jerry, that is a remarkable image. Do you know where the original is, or anything about the photographer? I'd love to put my hands on the glass plate negative ... There is hope, even when your brain tells you there isn’t. – John Green, author | |||
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check out the two Rhino's next to the rear wheel and the Lion skin on the top of the wagon. Thierry, aside from salt, I suspect they were still using some serious and deadly chemicals like arsenic during that time. Demestids, rats/mice, humidity/rain and a dozen other problems would have to be solved on such a journey. However, enough of their trophies made it to the UK and US to fill homes and museums from way back. Most would have wound up on ships to their final destination and rats would have really been an issue there as well. Gray Ghost Hunting Safaris http://grayghostsafaris.com Phone: 615-860-4333 Email: hunts@grayghostsafaris.com NRA Benefactor DSC Professional Member SCI Member RMEF Life Member NWTF Guardian Life Sponsor NAHC Life Member Rowland Ward - SCI Scorer Took the wife the Eastern Cape for her first hunt: http://forums.accuratereloadin...6321043/m/6881000262 Hunting in the Stormberg, Winterberg and Hankey Mountains of the Eastern Cape 2018 http://forums.accuratereloadin...6321043/m/4801073142 Hunting the Eastern Cape, RSA May 22nd - June 15th 2007 http://forums.accuratereloadin...=810104007#810104007 16 Days in Zimbabwe: Leopard, plains game, fowl and more: http://forums.accuratereloadin...=212108409#212108409 Natal: Rhino, Croc, Nyala, Bushbuck and more http://forums.accuratereloadin...6321043/m/6341092311 Recent hunt in the Eastern Cape, August 2010: Pics added http://forums.accuratereloadin...261039941#9261039941 10 days in the Stormberg Mountains http://forums.accuratereloadin...6321043/m/7781081322 Back in the Stormberg Mountains with friends: May-June 2017 http://forums.accuratereloadin...6321043/m/6001078232 "Peace is that brief glorious moment in history when everybody stands around reloading" - Thomas Jefferson Every morning the Zebra wakes up knowing it must outrun the fastest Lion if it wants to stay alive. Every morning the Lion wakes up knowing it must outrun the slowest Zebra or it will starve. It makes no difference if you are a Zebra or a Lion; when the Sun comes up in Africa, you must wake up running...... "If you're being chased by a Lion, you don't have to be faster than the Lion, you just have to be faster than the person next to you." | |||
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Wow...what a great pic! Would have loved to experience Africa that way and in those days!!! ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ J. Lane Easter, DVM A born Texan has instilled in his system a mind-set of no retreat or no surrender. I wish everyone the world over had the dominating spirit that motivates Texans.– Billy Clayton, Speaker of the Texas House No state commands such fierce pride and loyalty. Lesser mortals are pitied for their misfortune in not being born in Texas.— Queen Elizabeth II on her visit to Texas in May, 1991. | |||
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Great photo Jerry...Any more? You can borrow money but you can not borrow time. Go hunting with your family. | |||
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I remember a time in the early 80s when we used to use a diluted mix of sodium arsenite & sodium arsenate instead of salt. We'd just take a small bottle of this muti instead of a bloody great sack of salt with us & just dilute a few pints as & when we had wet skins........ once treated, you could store the skins for years before tanning & I don't remember ever having any slippage at all. Bloody dangerous when I look back but at the time, no-one worried about it at all. | |||
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Fantastic picture! ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- “A man can never have too much red wine, too many books, or too much ammunition” ― Rudyard Kipling | |||
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The guy sitting front middle with white hat looks like Frederick Courteney Selous. Mike | |||
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I see 2 maybe 3 Leopards there, I wonder if they hunted them over bait? Jerry Huffaker State, National and World Champion Taxidermist | |||
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wonder how much gin they had to take on a trip like that | |||
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Apparently not much, nobody is smiling! "The difference between adventure and disaster is preparation." "The problem with quoting info from the internet is that you can never be sure it is accurate" Abraham Lincoln | |||
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There is a monkey sitting on the left hand side of the wagon that appears to possible be alive? TN River and the Mountain Man... | |||
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I wonder why they didn't shoot more critters!  On the plains of hesitation lie the bleached bones of ten thousand, who on the dawn of victory lay down their weary heads resting, and there resting, died. If you can talk with crowds and keep your virtue, Or walk with Kings - nor lose the common touch... Yours is the Earth and everything that's in it, And - which is more - you'll be a Man, my son! - Rudyard Kipling Life grows grim without senseless indulgence. | |||
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Check out the guy seated on the right. When was the last time you wore a tie to go hunting?!?! | |||
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He was possibly of a higher social class than the rest, and didn't want anyone to think he'd "gone native" ....  -- Promise me, when I die, don't let my wife sell my guns for what I told I her I paid for them. | |||
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I'd guess he was a Brit & the others were Aussies...... so the same thing really!   Sorry Bren..... I just couldn't resist pulling your leg!  | |||
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Lane, you can still. Many "dodgy" operators will arrange an ox cart for you to sleep in + move around with and allow you to shoot way more than quota allows regardless of trophy quality.  "...Them, they were Giants!" J.A. Hunter describing the early explorers and settlers of East Africa hunting is not about the killing but about the chase of the hunt.... Ortega Y Gasset | |||
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Tony Makris isn't too far off | |||
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"...how they did it without all of our toys?" Simple answer: this was the first SCI high fence hunt auction with a guarantee of X number of animals in X days, with all guaranteed to qualify for the low scoring record book (for a fee). AND, they shot from the wagon! Seriously, what a great way to spend a life. I bet the fella in the white hat is Selous. Cheers all, Cal _______________________________ Cal Pappas, Willow, Alaska www.CalPappas.com www.CalPappas.blogspot.com 1994 Zimbabwe 1997 Zimbabwe 1998 Zimbabwe 1999 Zimbabwe 1999 Namibia, Botswana, Zambia--vacation 2000 Australia 2002 South Africa 2003 South Africa 2003 Zimbabwe 2005 South Africa 2005 Zimbabwe 2006 Tanzania 2006 Zimbabwe--vacation 2007 Zimbabwe--vacation 2008 Zimbabwe 2012 Australia 2013 South Africa 2013 Zimbabwe 2013 Australia 2016 Zimbabwe 2017 Zimbabwe 2018 South Africa 2018 Zimbabwe--vacation 2019 South Africa 2019 Botswana 2019 Zimbabwe vacation 2021 South Africa 2021 South Africa (2nd hunt a month later) ______________________________ | |||
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