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Anderson commenced big-game hunting in 1909 and elephant hunting in 1912, after meeting lifelong friend Jim Sutherland. Over the course of his life Anderson shot between 350 and 400 elephants, his favourite calibres for elephant hunting being the .577 Nitro Express, the .470 Nitro Express and the .318 Westley Richards.
After the Boer War, Pearson remained in Africa, sailing to Kenya he arrived in Mombasa in 1903. A short time later he decided to hunt elephant professionally, travelling to Uganda he initially hunted in the Masindi district but the found the newly imposed game laws limiting hunters to three elephant a year too restricting to make a living.
He is noted for using smaller calibre bullets [17] [18] rather than the heavy recoiling, larger calibre bullets that were popular with other big game hunters. [19] Like many other professional elephant hunters of the time, he started hunting elephants with a sporting .303 Lee Enfield rifle, taking 63 elephant heads on his first safari.
Early in his hunting career, in the mid-1870s, Selous favored a four bore black powder muzzleloader for killing an elephant, a 6 kg (13 lb) short-barreled musket firing a 110 g (1 ⁄ 4 lb) bullet with as much as 20 drachms (35 g; 550 gr) of black powder, one of the largest hunting calibers fabricated. Between 1874 and 1876 he killed seventy ...
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To watch the couple's house-hunting journey in Yardley, check out season 244, episode three, titled, “Where’s the beach in Pennsylvania.” The episode originally aired on HGTV last week and ...
Elephant Hunting in East Equatorial Africa Arthur Henry Neumann (12 June 1850 – 29 May 1907) was an English explorer, hunter, soldier, farmer and travel writer famous for his exploits in Equatorial East Africa.
The St Louis Zoo houses a large herd of Asian elephants from three different generations. Jade, seventeen, is currently pregnant with her first calf via artificial insemination.