Anyone read the True magazine book that has a Safari by Roy Rogers, polar bear hunt with Joe Foss, hunt with Shah of Iran, Prince of Denmark, and king of Greece?

I keep finding them at reasonable prices on ebay. If I can find another one I will send it out to share. I need to keep the copies I have.

What is the title?

Was the article about the Shah of Iran or his brother, Prince Abdorreza?

Bill Quimby

Bill they took a bunch of True magazine stories and put them into a hardbound book.

It was about the Shah, his brother is talked about but it's about the Shah.

I will try and find it at home. They are picking up all my stuff today for the move to Maine. If I remember in the malstrom I will get it.

D99:

No hurry. The reason I want to chase down a copy is because it may be the only thing in print about the Shah hunting. When interviewing Prince Abdorreza for my book about him, Abdorreza mentioned that his brother hunted but wasn't serious about it. Of course, there are few people as serious about hunting as Abdorreza was.

Bill Quimby

Bill,

I can't remember the writer that hunted with the Shah, True magazine gave him a custom M700 721 with 3-9 scope and something called a command post reticle (pretty high tech for then). It was within a day or two of the Shah's son being born. As the hunters went to a outdoor Islamic "christening for lack of a better word for the son".

It will have to wait until I get to Maine, the movers had everything packed before I was thinking about the book.

I have two copies I will see if Dad can find his and read me the title.

That or I can send you mine and we can trade or something, let me know.

Seth

Great True Hunts Peter Barrett 1967, found it after 2 hours of searching the net. Remembered where I first checked it out as a kid in Casper Wyoming's library.

Just have to dig up dust in the basement of my mind.

There are tons of them for sale. I guess not much resale value.

Here's the propaganda:

FROM MOZAMBIQUE TO MEXICO, FROM THE GREAT HINDU KUSH TO THE MIDDLE EAST, THE SAHARA, ALASKA-WHEREVER THE WORLD'S BIG GAME IS SOUGHT COME THESE ADVENTURES WITH HUNTERS AND FAMOUS MEN, INCLUDING: THE SHAH OF IRAN, TITO OF YUGOSLAVIA, KING PAUL OF GREECE, ROY ROGERS, PRINCE BERNHARD, KIRK DOUGLAS, JOE FOSS.

Sounds interesting. I will have to check it out.

Good luck on the move. It's not exactly down the street.

You know in 2003 I moved from Washington State to Spain. But the kicker is I was in the Pakistan Hymalayas loading missles on airplanes had to fly to the ship, offload my stuff in Singapore, fly to Japan, LAX, Seattle, showed up in Casper, Wyoming for a month of hunting elk, flew to Denver, Germany, Rome, and finally Sicily. Only missed a complete circle by about 2000 miles.

That's what I like to call a real move. This one is just a practice.

The best part of that was the month with the elk.

Thanks. I'll hunt up a copy.

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Originally posted by D99:
Great True Hunts Peter Barrett 1967, found it after 2 hours of searching the net. Remembered where I first checked it out as a kid in Casper Wyoming's library.

Just have to dig up dust in the basement of my mind.

There are tons of them for sale. I guess not much resale value.

Here's the propaganda:

FROM MOZAMBIQUE TO MEXICO, FROM THE GREAT HINDU KUSH TO THE MIDDLE EAST, THE SAHARA, ALASKA-WHEREVER THE WORLD'S BIG GAME IS SOUGHT COME THESE ADVENTURES WITH HUNTERS AND FAMOUS MEN, INCLUDING: THE SHAH OF IRAN, TITO OF YUGOSLAVIA, KING PAUL OF GREECE, ROY ROGERS, PRINCE BERNHARD, KIRK DOUGLAS, JOE FOSS.

Are you kidding?

The best part was taking a shower after 3 weeks in Pakistan, and the two pitchers of Gin and Tonic at Raffles in Singapore.

The downside was flying for 18 hours from Singapore to Seattle blitzed out of my mind.

I have to say that Singapore airline was very nice, but I don't remember very much of it.

I read a Capstick book while on the 2nd leg, but had to re-read it about 3 months later as I couldn't recall any of it.

Bill,

What books have you written, I heard one on China but I have never been able to find a copy.

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Originally posted by D99:
Bill,

What books have you written, I heard one on China but I have never been able to find a copy.

McElroy Hunts Dangerous Game
McElroy Hunts Mountain Game
McElroy Hunts African Antelope and Antlered Game
Yoshi (with Watson Yoshimoto)
The Heck With It, I'm Going Hunting (with Arnold Alward)
Royal Quest (about HIH Prince Abdorreza of Iran)
The History of Safari Club International
Around The World And Then Some (with David Hanlin)
Wind In My Face (with Hubert Thummler)
Memories of Greer (I was co-editor)
I also ghost wrote books for three noted hunters.

I also edited and published:
Safaris Revisited, the 1970s
Safaris Revisited, the 1980s
McElroy Hunts Asia
The SCI Record Books of Trophy Animals (from 1984 to 1999)

I've not written anything specifically about China, but most of my books have had chapters about the subjects hunting there.

Bill Quimby

Thanks Bill for that list. So, what do you do in all of your spare time?

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Originally posted by yukon delta:
Thanks Bill for that list. So, what do you do in all of your spare time?

From May to November, while we are at our summer cabin at 9,000 feet in Arizona's White Mountains, I drive around and count elk, deer and turkeys in the mornings. On the weekends, I tag along with my wife while she shops the reservations and single-handedly supports dozens of Zuni and Navajo silversmiths.

The rest of the time I watch our pine, spruce and aspen trees grow.

At our winter home in Tucson from November to May, I try to ignore the traffic, noise, stores, billboards, signs, gangs, crime, and the thousands of aliens who sneak across our border south of town every week.

What little spare time is left after that, I curse the four to six feet of snow that keeps us away from our cabin.

Bill Quimby

Jeeze Bill,

You ought to get a winter house someplace else!

Arizona is a really nice place. We lived in Apache Junction when I was 10 or 11 and I pass through there all the time on Navy business.

My sister and brother in law were living at Huachuca for a few years and loved it.

The only downside that I see to Arizona is bowhunters have a unfair advantage on tags and of course all those wonderful realities of living on the border that you discussed.

"The only downside that I see to Arizona is bowhunters have a unfair advantage on tags and of course all those wonderful realities of living on the border that you discussed."

D99:

I would add having to draw permits to hunt deer and javelina, and the growing number of locked gates blocking access to all of our millions of acres of publicly owned hunting lands.

Apache Junction is too big for me. Sierra Vista/Fort Huachuca is about right, but it's growing and its winter is colder than I like.

Bill Quimby

I think my parents are going to end up in Chula Vista when Mom retires.

Wyoming wind and snow is killing my father.

3 months in Alaska with me 9 months in Arizona with my sister. I think I get the better deal!