All of what is happening in the world is viewed through two absurd lenses. That history must be viewed through the eyes of presentism and all people worth remembering must be infallible.
In George Rishby's "No more the tusker" he talks about how they would live off elephant temple biltong.
I would love to try elephant someday. That, mountain lion and black bear are my bucket list meats!
I think the magnum phase is starting to fizzle a bit. I don't dislike them but the benefits over standard cartridges aren't apparent enough for me in real world.
30-06, 270 etc all seemed to be enough until gun writers said they weren't. Never had a deer die quicker or deader with a magnum than...
I think of bucket list as something I want to achieve before I die as opposed to a dream I like the idea of.
Sheep and moose where always there for me in US and Lord Derby eland in Africa. These guided hunts are way too expensive for me these days, particularly with the aussie dollar. So I...
I'd prefer that too, but not being able to hunt it diy and a guided moose or dall hunt setting you back in the vicinity of $40,000 aud all said and done puts it on the outer for me.
Having said that, free range african hunting is no different.
Reckon I'll stick to Aus, NZ and cashing in my...
If I could hunt any animal in the world it would be a tiger, any place in the world and it was be an indian shikar. In the realm of possiblity (excluding financially) a lord derby eland tracking hunt hands down.
Of the big 5 leopard and elephant interest me most. Both wily and both dangerous...
I'm a bit of a Corbett fanatic so you'll have to excuse me here. You need to read yourself all of his books, they're all great and you get a lot more about him as a man and his hunting from them.
Off the top of my head he only shot the talla des tiger and chowgarh tiger with the 275, most where...
Powering my way through "Rebel Yell" by S.C.Gwynne.
A biography of sorts about Stonewall Jackson during the Civil War era and a look into his personality and private life. I must say it is one of the best books I've ever read.
I still don't understand what actually happens in the one shot event? The article itself from an outsider's perspective seems more focused on the bloke they're trying to run down and not the event itself.