I think if Juan, Lorenzo, Willy, Nainital, Scruffy, billinthewild, 218 Bee, Guillermo, Afrikaander, Martin. Carlos,Reiter, Nickudu, and any other of the regulars posted their favorite 2-3 photos or stories of hunts in South America, we would have some entertainment.
I'll start, one photo at a time.

Howler in the Chaco Province,Argentina

Huechulafken Lake & Lanin vulcane

Avutardas(Chloephaga picta)

Red Deer (Cervus elaphus)

Avestruces ((Rhea americana)

Guanacos ((Lama guanicoe)

Some more favorite pictures:

Hunting to the storm



Old timers



Rare bird

Australia....near bay of Carpenteria

I´ll add some photos from my own archives with a proviso: that Lorenzo, half asleep from his many duties as manager of baby´s bottles and baby sitter, will not find a minor flaw and criticize the pixels, shadows, lights and what not. It seems that he found a new and strictly Uruguayan sport: harassing innocent Argentine PH´s.

Axis

Lady sus scrofa and her babies

Poker of aces

Gaucho boy


Young man with puppy

I guess great hunters of SA like Sasha Siemel and Arne Sucksdorf will never be forgotten. There´s already 2 topics here in the SA forum with lot´s of pics, very interesting ones.

From myself, this a little compilation of the guys I´vew been with in the past 5 years :

http://br.youtube.com/watch?v=...feature=channel_page

I will find a couple good pics and post them later.

until now, great images ! Congrats guys !

Here are some topics worth seeing :

Sasha :
http://forums.accuratereloadin...=183108748#183108748

Mr. Arne :
http://forums.accuratereloadin...=491106648#491106648

"Caça e Pesca" Magazine :
http://forums.accuratereloadin...=397100485#397100485

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Originally posted by Carlos Alberto Macias:
I´ll add some photos from my own archives with a proviso: that Lorenzo, half asleep from his many duties as manager of baby´s bottles and baby sitter, will not find a minor flaw and criticize the pixels, shadows, lights and what not. It seems that he found a new and strictly Uruguayan sport: harassing innocent Argentine PH´s.

Axis

I'm really sorry, seriously.

The truth is that I am at home nearly all day. My office is near and at this time of the year we don't have too much work so it seems I canalized my energies braking some others balls..

I will try to behave myself from now on

BTW, nice axis !!!!

Hey nainital,

That bird is an "urraca azul" that in my spanglish must sound something like "blue urrak" ????....

L

Lorenzo: I don´t have the slightest idea. I took the photo with a tele in the Palmar de Colón. Perhaps one of our ornithologists could identify it. The size was bigger than an "urraca".

That is a urraca Azul, no doubt, but I don't know their name in english.

Their voice is very charasteristic, no doubts when you hear it.

Abrazo

Lorenzo

I believe that "magpie" is the english for "urraca", but the beak on that bird doesn't look like a magpie type.

The real urraca azul is a very rare bird but this one is the common urraca but everyone here call them urraca azul because nobody knows the real one which is a very rare bird, I saw it only once.

The one posted here is very common in my country, you can not put them in a cage with other birds because they will kill them and eat them. When in captivity you fed them with cow meat and fruits.

Is not a very small bird, quite the oposite (sp?)

L

I took these pics from the internet..





L

Also some uruguayan birds I took from the internet.

Naranjero (orange bird or something like that due to its habits of feeding with oranges)



Churrinche



Our national bird the Tero



Our National Flower, the ceibo flower (it's a tree. Also Argentina declared it their National Flower...
As allways steeling our things as we are smaller...(Carlos Gardel, La Cumparsita tango, etc, etc)



And some cows pictures I took in a friend's farm..





L

And when I am not working, hunting or changing diapers I just relax and go fishing here







Not hunting but a bit of scenery..

L

Lorenzo,and others posting pictures, thank you for sharing such nice picture from your beautiful contry. Especialy for us from the north. Sweden is beautiful during summer, now it is cold!
Matts

It seems that the bird´s name in English is "blue jay" and the scientific one "cyanocitta cristata". In Spanish "arrendajo azul" or "urraca azul". Uruguay is a beautiful country indeed, pity that is full of Uruguayans...

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Originally posted by nainital:
(.....) Uruguay is a beautiful country indeed, pity that is full of Uruguayans...

... that are always crying and complaining without any real motive against their big brothers (Argentinians ) !!!

I am just moving myself to a bigger house (my kids are getting bigger ... and myself older ! ) but as soon as I find my way out of the resulting mess, I will post some of my pics !

BTW, thanks you all for sharing yours !

Some more pictures. These included one of my beloved dog Gladiador (Gladiator) who died fighting a monster hog with tusks that later measured 27 centimeters, and other of his son.

Dusk watch


My pet teckel hound


The gladiator


The son of the gladiator




The dogo and the prey

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Originally posted by Afrikaander:

quote:

Originally posted by nainital:
(.....) Uruguay is a beautiful country indeed, pity that is full of Uruguayans...

... that are always crying and complaining without any real motive against their big brothers (Argentinians ) !!!

Despite all your bad habits I still love you guys


Carlos, nice pictures, specially the one at dusk !!

L

Some more pictures of beautiful felines (no, not of those in Black´s) :


American cougar



Yaguarete

Carlos, the gladiator and his son appear to be part dogo, but also are taller and leaner. What is their breeding?

Lorenzo, is the picture of the cows taken in Corrientes Province of Argentina? And where is that beautiful lake?

nainital, those are great cat pix. Did you photograph them? "Old timers" is great.

Guillermo, those are all wonderful pix. Thanks

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Originally posted by SGraves155:
Lorenzo, is the picture of the cows taken in Corrientes Province of Argentina? And where is that beautiful lake?

You must be kidding !!!

That's is Uruguay !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

That lagoon is called Laguna del Sauce and it's near Punta del Este, a very fancy place with beatiful ocean beaches where the argentinian beauties come to find real men during the summer

L

Sorry, I am sure Uruguay is a wonderful place with wonderful people, all rolled into a "small package"!!

Hi palls
For a while I wasn’t in this forum, just busy with another issue, but any way I wanted to let you know, that the expedition I carried out with Stephen Graves, was something awesome and unique.
I can tell; that it wasn’t an easy task to accomplish, Stephen can say.
By the way Stephen my friend, I’m living part time near Dean Funes in a place called San Pedro Norte, do you remember the place you shot the brocket deer? Close to that spot.
Here is a wonderful place and I’m enjoying hunting from time to time, viscachas (as we hunted across the river with the tobas) as well I’m shooting brocket and Russian boar, peccary is not so easy, but we try as well.
Well my friend, you are welcome to come and visit me in my new place any time you wish, and the proposal is good time drinking beer, wine, real girls and why not hunting.
PS. Bring your gold detector, you know of what I’m speaking about, don’t you?

The photos are all so beautiful and those of Lorenzo taken in Uruguay makes me want to visit. I can just imagine how nice it would be to sit out under that palapa along the water witha good whisky and a fine puro. And lean back, enjoying the taste, the smoke, the ambiance of the place, and let the world go on by.

Volcan Lanin


Cerro Tronador


Lago Fonck

Steve: I didn´t take the cat´s pictures. By the way, the "Estanciera" of "old timers" is still giving good service...

Steve: like you well guessed, the Gladiador was a halfbreed, half dogo and half greyhound. He was a gift, a nomadic Native American who lives mainly as a hunter-gatherer near Algarrobo del Aguila in the west of La Pampa Province gave him to me. This place it´s most unusual, because there two rivers meet: the Atuel and the Chadileuvu. Sometimes these waters join and give birth to a delta.

Perhaps in these swamps you may find the biggest hogs in Argentina. They feed with gusto of stranded fish when the waters disappear.
The native hunters use the best tools that they have at hand, thus they mix the dogos with the greyhounds looking for a lighter dog, able to run in these very special kind of terrain.

The Gladiador was also known as "Indio" due to his origin and he had a white coat like his father and grey ears like his mother. Besides being a very brave and intelligent fighter he had another unique and distinctive knowledge: he climbed trees and I´ve seen him in a branch at 4 meters. Of course, this was very useful when pursuing pumas.
He died hunting, after sensing a hog he jumped from the pickup and fought the tusker alone, losing his life because the hog sliced his throat.

From a hunter to another, a tear and a salute to him.
I´ll try to post some pictures of that area afterwards.

Carlos: my friend Buby Campo is a fan of that area near Santa Isabel and wrote several articles about it in local magazines. Tell us something about your little and beautiful dog on the truck´s hood..

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Originally posted by nainital:
Carlos: my friend Buby Campo is a fan of that area near Santa Isabel and wrote several articles about it in local magazines. Tell us something about your little and beautiful dog on the truck´s hood..

Is a mixture between "Spanish Galgo" and "Galgo concolor"

First is first: To Nainital: my pet little dog is a Teckel "pelo duro", her name is Lola and is aged 8 months. Her parents were imported to Argentina the past March by a Spanish couple who come every year for hunting and gave her as a gift to a colleague who lives in Neuquen. She has a nice pedigree and a certificate in Germany, I hope to train her properly for following blood trails. Mi good friend Juan Carlos Wagner has one of her sisters and like a good German will be her teacher in the field.
Here is a picture:


To Guillermo Ämestoy: Life is stranger than fiction and that dog always tried to climb trees...

I wish I could head down there tomorrow

quote:

I wish I could head down there tomorrow

+1

Nice pics.
One day i will be there...

Seloushunter