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This list of big-game hunters includes sportsmen and sportswomen who gained fame largely or solely because of their big-game hunting exploits. The members of this list either hunted big game for sport, to advance the science of their day, or as professional hunters. It includes brief biographical details focusing on the type of game hunted ...
Famous as one of the most successful ivory hunters of his time, Bell was an advocate of accurate shot placement with smaller calibre rifles, over the heavy large-bore rifles his contemporaries used for big African game. He improved his hunting skills by the dissection and study of the skulls of elephants he shot.
Big-game hunting is also a sport pursued to collect specimens for museums, recreation, and as a hobby. Sharply rising in popularity during the Victorian Era, it peaked during the 20th century, and includes many famous big game hunters.
Big Game Shooting, volume. 1, edited by Clive Phillipps-Wolley (London, 1894) Records of Big Game by Rowland Ward FZS (London, fifth edition, 1907) The life of Frederick Courtenay Selous, D.S.O. by John Guille Millais (London, 1919) Catalogue of the Selous Collection of Big Game in the British Museum (Natural History) by J. G. Dollman (London ...
[3] [4] His hunting adventures have spanned six continents and 50 countries. [5] Shockey has been called by Outdoor Life magazine "the most accomplished big-game hunter of the modern era, having taken arguably the most free-range big game species by any living hunter." They also noted that he is "the most influential celebrity in big-game ...
He held several world records for big game at various times, and killed over 1,000 rhinos in Kenya, most of them in the Makueni hunting ground, which the Government needed to get rid of, in order to give these lands for re-settlement of the Kamba people. Besides safaris and other control operations for the Kenya Game Department, in Makueni ...
South Carolina linebacker Stone Blanton (52) returns an interception for a touchdown during the second half of the Gamecocks’ game at Williams-Brice Stadium in Columbia on Saturday, November 4 ...
Denys George Finch-Hatton MC (24 April 1887 – 14 May 1931) was a British aristocratic big-game hunter and the lover of Baroness Karen von Blixen (also known by her pen name, Isak Dinesen), a Danish noblewoman who wrote about him in her autobiographical book Out of Africa, first published in 1937. In the book, his name is hyphenated: "Finch ...