10 December 2006, 07:32
ReiterOld days of hunting in Brasil
Guys, just posting some old photos when hunting was a great deal in Brasil. We had almost everything, safaris, specialized publications, lots of products related to hunting, and, of course, hunting was legall and propperly regulated.
I have a few pictures of Sascha Siemel, I´ll post them later.
Here it goes :
I don´t know how to say the name of these fishes in english, here we call them "cascudo", they live in rock/stone caves in rivers, and they eat stone dirt. very good eating meat.
This guy, called Francisco Barros Jr., was a very famous hunter and writer, he spent most of his life traveling around the country hunting, he hunted almost everything in almost everywhere in Brasil. There is a big collection of books relating his biggest hunting expedition.
This is Mr. Domingos Vieira, who killed a marsh deer with his self made longbow.
Very very big "melo", catched in the sea. Submarine fish hunting.
On the bottom picture theres a good sized jaguar.
Huge cat .
Thats what you guys call "agouti". They are hunted at nigh, the hunter waits them from a tree, with some food under it.
Pecaris hunted in Pantanal.
Capibaras in Pantanal.
Huge fishes !
Pirarucu, piratinga and pirarara.
A deer that was caught by hand.
Mr. Walter Buttel, famous hunter in Brazil.
10 December 2006, 09:40
SGraves155Reiter, very interesting. Thank You. Wonderful old magazines. Would love to see some larger photos.
10 December 2006, 09:51
JohnK007Reiter,
Do think there is a chance of those glory years returning to Brasil, or is the political climate such that hunting is gone forever?
10 December 2006, 23:05
ReiterGraves, the pictures are originally bigger, but I rezised them for make it easier to upload.
Next time I´ll try to post larger ones.
John, here we are trying just to keep the righ of having firearms at home ! There are so many taxes, and this left wing goverment wants to create an annual taxe of R$ 300 ( Us 150 ) per firearms ! Its becoming unaffordable to keep them, unfortunatelly. But lets see where this will go.
About the hunting, I´ll believe when
people discover how much money hunting can make, they will accept it righ away, just as 1 province/state in Brasil already did it. It´s getting bigger, SCI chapter here is helping a lot, but it´s almost nothing compared to 40 years ago. The most important thing we need here is an organization to represent us ( hunting, shooters, firearms owners), with , like, 10.000 members, so they could have massive voice in the parlament.
The only place is legal to hunt, like I said, is in Rio grande do Sul, our southern state, but it´s soo expensive, that you could go to Uruguay, Paraguay or Argentina, 100km away, hunt the exact same things under the same conditions, and it´s a lot more cheaper. I hope we learn something with our neighbors.
See you guys, I´ll post other pictures later.
11 December 2006, 16:48
mr rigbyReiter, i read Capsticks tale of the Marajò island Red Water buffalo and also here in the Nickkudu files was a story about that hunt.
Yeezzzzz that was a very interessting and fun hunt that i hope will be back up in some years....