My now good friend Billin the wild Gve me a copy of the excellet book wind in my face of Humbert Thummler by Bill Quimby and signed from him i just finished reading the book of this incredible hunter ,i recommend this book ,and i want to say thank you both Bills.Juan

You are welcome, Juan.

If you come to the SCI convention in January, I'd be happy to introduce you to Hubert. He is quite a guy, and everything I wrote for him in "Wind In My Face" is absolutely true.

Bill

Im happy to see that he even hunted the rare taruca here incredible hunter ,i hope to see you here some day.Juan

"I hope to see you her someday. Juan."

I'm afraid my 2005 trip to Argentina will prove to be my last to your beautiful country.

Long flights are getting tougher for me.

I returned from Australia in July with my lower legs and feet so swollen they were as large as my thighs.

Pero muchas gracious, mi amigo. Venga a SCI en Reno y yo compro a comida y hablamos de caza mucho.

Bill Quimby

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I Googled Taruca and got some nice pictures of animal from Argentina. It will surely fun to gown there soon. Bill i will get some of your books soon .

Mr. Rigby:

I'm a fan of the world's deer and have done a bit of research on the 40 major species (there are hundreds of subspecies).

The taruca (or huemel) is among the most interesting of all, IMO. There are two subspecies, and Thummler shot the southern variety.

Did your Google search tell you that these primitive deer live at elevations up to 16,500 feet, still have the tusks that the members of most ancient deer families had, and that local people once thought they were related to llamas because of their woolly coats?

It's a shame that they can't be hunted now. There's really no convincing evidence that they are endangered.

Dollars left behind trophy hunters traveling there from all over the world would give locals a financial reason to curb local poaching.

Bill Quimby

You are totally rigth the same with swamp deer ,pampas deer ,and pudu indeed there are thousands of them .Juan

"You are totally rigth the same with swamp deer ,pampas deer ,and pudu indeed there are thousands of them .Juan"

South America truly has interesting deer, Juan, especially your pudu, the smallest of all the world's deer. I've only seen photos, and they look nothing at all like any other deer.

Bill Quimby

Bill, yes there was somementioned about them and they must be in family with the prehistoric species of deer, 16000 feet of altitude, that is 4000 meters (gulp)

Well if they arent tough animal, which of the animals of the world is thentougher then they are , when youre speaking about their habitats ?

Juan is this the deer you had your .300 with the 20 inch barrel buildt for ?


Yes its a shame how the populations of game are destroyed by poachers. JUst imagine how much 10 tigers trohy fees could have collected a season ?

And one i would like to hunt if i get the chance, in fysical way and finacial way is the Onca which Peter Capstick wrote so good about, when the winter is on the coldest over here , i must get some more of his exellent books.

But there will be a good chance for a Puma over Christmas in Argentina and that will be fun .....

The taruca (huemal) is found at the highest elevation of all deer, but at close second is the white-lipped deer of China and Tibet. This deer is slightly smaller than an elk and has a distinctive face. Some of its range is said to be extremely steep.

The blue sheep or bharal of the Himalayas of Pakistan, India and Nepal are found as high as 18,000 feet (about 6,000 meters), but other than a high elevation the terrain not that rugged, or so I've been told. More than a few blue sheep hunters have died of elevation sickness, however.

In the same general region but at slightly lower elevations are the serows and garals. They're tough to hunt because of the elevation and thick brush.

If I had to vote on the toughest animal to hunt based on its habitat, however, I'd have to give that title to the Sulaiman markhor of Pakistan. The photographs I've seen of the places hunters have taken these wild goats are incredible -- everything is almost vertical. How these animals move around in such terrain is amazing, but even more amazing is that humans could get up there to hunt them.

The tur of the Caucasus Mountains and the Himalayan tahr, live in extremely rugged terrain, too, but not as bad as the markhor's.

I suppose trying to follow hounds after jaguar in Brazil's Pantanal or a sambar deer in a South Pacific swamp during the wet season would be toughest on the hunter, although much less dangerous.

Bill Quimby