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Great pictures Mark and a real nice variety of game. Looks a good time was had.
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Excellent! Couldn't quite tell from the pictures what you were shooting. Same gun with two sets of barrels or two guns? I am heading back over in July and my second gun will be a Bereta Gold Sable with 30'06x30'06 and 20x20 barrels. Bringing a .375 for buffalo, but we'll have some time for plains game and at least one afternoon at a water hole. Great group of trophies.
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Hi Mark,
Thank you for sharing the great pictures with us.
> Jim Legg <
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Joe, the rifle is a Merkel 141 double in 9.3x74. The Shotgun is a postwar Simson 12ga that I fit wit a Gracoil recoil reduction system.
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looks lik anutter game hog strikes again and again and again...very sad. too bad they can't shoot back.
keep it simple and keep it safe...
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I have to agree with Ed on this one!
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"Dead animal/bird" pictures seem to have become unacceptable to many people today. That may be because of the high volume South American bird shoots and the resulting 4 feet high stacks of dead doves or pigeons. African trophy shots always look sort of 'gloating' and most folks nowadays just think how much more beautiful the game would have looked if it hadn't been shot. I'm afraid a lot of this reaction is the result of anti-hunting propaganda, even amongst ourselves, who love the sport the most.
I have way too many 'trophy shot' pictures of me in my scrapbook to criticize anyone. I also recognize the pride in the eyes of the shooters whose game is pictured in Mark's photos. Notwithstanding the apparent 'overkill', it is the same look of pride I see in the picture I have of one of my son's with his first game...a cottontail rabbit.
In other words, even if the bag may look a little excessive, it clearly was taken legally in areas of the world where the supply was not endangered and the pride of the hunters is totally genuine. I have to disagree with the critisism of Mark's pictures...Geo
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Why do some ninnies have to ruin a perfectly nice thread?
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I liked the pics and don't see anything excessive about it. Bet'cha every single bit of meat was well used and appreciated. These animals are harvested on a sustaining basis and without the paying hunter they'd either be extinct or a plague.
I totally agree with Ohiosam--please don't ruin someone's thread that he wanted to share with us. Haven't y'all chased off enough good people with cutting remarks to be satisfied? Keep it to yourself if you don't like it!
When an old man dies a library burns to the ground. (Old African proverb)
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