Vintage Safari Pictures

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A great collection of old pictures, thanks.

 

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observe the doubles...:whoo:


Clint Eastwood, during the filming of White Hunter, Black Heart

British actor Stewart Granger in the 1957 movie The Last Safari in Africa

 

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This was in South Africa 1800 when months of safari expeditions were all loaded in ox-wagons or ossewa and pulled by some two dozen big bullocks, with men, gear and livestock riding along.

1960 Congo, Native Hunters Cutting up an elephant

1951 sudan

Rhodesia

kenya 1915

 

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This was in South Africa 1800 when months of safari expeditions were all loaded in ox-wagons or ossewa and pulled by some two dozen big bullocks, with men, gear and livestock riding along.

Some things change....

1960 Congo, Native Hunters Cutting up an elephant

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Some things don't.

 

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wow!

Mike Cotter, the hunter, in 1938's Kenya With a Great Lion and a Great Hat!

Osa Johnson 1923

 

[AfricaHunting.com]

Here are some photographs from Claudio Delfabro who was in Tanganyika Tanzania some 55 year ago...


Remains of two Kudus that died from becoming interlocked

Baboon

Eland

 

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More pictures from Claudio Delfabro...


Edmond Sunde 180 pounds Elephant
Weight: 180 pounds and 167.5 pounds
Length (outside curve) 8 feet 8 inches and 8 feet 10 inches
Greatest circumference: 23 inches and 23 inches
These tusks are the fifth heaviest pair on record.

Edmond Sunde

Getting an Elephant's ivory...

 

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JEROME, do you have any info on the bow and arrow in the elephant picture?

Portrait of a native African hunter from Angola, 1940

 

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JEROME, do you have any info on the bow and arrow in the elephant picture?

I don't.

 

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March 8th, 1950: Arrol, a native Turkana tracker who saw this same lion kill one of his tribesmen, spreads the jaws showing the broken teeth of "The Man Killer Of Isiolo" taken by a safari expedition guided by professional hunter Frank Bowman in the Kenya Colony.

 

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Roping rhinos in Africa of the 40's and 50's. Back then no tranquilizers.
Not for sissies, only lasso and trucks!

 

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[I found this interesting story -does anyone have more information on it?]
Simon Leach of Traditional Mozambique Safaris shared this vintage photo of the leopard that killed his great great grandfather.
The skin is presently at the museum in the Kruger National Park, the place he worked for and loved so much.

 

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is this maybe a female in this old photo?

 

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One of the largest elephant trophies in the world hunted Major Powell-Cotton on the shores of Lake Albert in Uganda late 1890. Believed to be shot with a .400 NE cordite rifle by W. J. Jeffery

 

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Donald Ker, an Englishman living at Gilku, in Northern Nigeria, introduced the motorcycle as a mount for his hunting trips in the Sudan 1945. Seen here with a leopard on his 'hunting ' vehicle!

 

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all-time world record kudu

This all-time world record kudu was picked up by the late Italian hunter Carlo Caldesi. He found this head while hunting in Mozambique with the safari company of the late Baron Werner von Alvensleben. The head was picked up in 1963 near the Save River. Carlo Caldesi won the Weatherby Big Game Award in 1981, the first Italian hunter ever to do so, for his outstanding accomplishments as a hunter of international repute. The kudu is listed in Rowland Ward with a longer horn measurement of 73 7/8 and a shorter horn measurement of 71 5/8. This is the ONLY known kudu that has ever been measured with horns of over 70 inches. This head outdoes every heads ever recorded by Rowland Ward, and it is one of the greatest trophies ever to come out of Africa.

 

[bluey]

youd have to be happy with that for a pick up head .WOW

 

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Hunting in Rhodesia

a golden oldy of a beautiful place..
Hunting in Rhodesia. From a 1970 Rhodesian government tourism board sponsored magazine, in a country where hunting was an integrating and completely accepted part of tourism, a tradition and a mainstay of the people.

 

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first black African professional hunte

Chumamaboko, first black African professional hunter.
His name means Arms Of Iron, he guided around 1910-1924 in Bangweulu and Luangwa, from Kenya into Zambia. He died in 1924

 

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The beautiful Soutpansberg/Limpopo Valley way back when. This very old pic of a' hunting' ox wagon was taken deep in the Limpopo Valley,and i bet that stunning Baobab is still standing today.....