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James H. Sutherland with dead elephant. 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 ...
Throughout his career Salmon set a number of elephant hunting records that were unparalleled by other hunters, he once shot 40 elephants in a day, 70 elephant in three days and 230 elephant in three weeks and on one occasion 12 elephant with 14 shots in less than two minutes, like W.D.M. "Karamojo" Bell, Salmon possessed detailed knowledge of ...
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.
After Big Game in Central Africa. St. Martin's Press. ISBN 0-312-03274-9 [originally pub. 1899] Herne, Brian. White Hunters: The Golden Age of African Safari, Henry Holt & Co, New York, 1999. "The Most Dangerous Game", a classic story famous in the mid-twentieth century that was inspired by and explores the philosophy of hunting for sheer pleasure.
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John Howard "Pondoro" Taylor (1904–1969) was a big-game hunter and ivory poacher [1] of Irish descent. Born in Dublin as the son of a surgeon he developed an urge to go to Africa and become a professional hunter.
Articles relating to elephant hunting, The poaching of elephants for their ivory, meat and hides has been one of the major threats to their existence. Historically, numerous cultures made ornaments and other works of art from elephant ivory, and its use was comparable to that of gold.
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.