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magnum308
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Reged: 19/05/04
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Loc: Brisbane, Australia

ELGIN GATES??
12/06/04 12:01 PM

Hi, I'm from Brisbane, Australia and new to this forum. I got a book many years ago called "Trophy Hunter in Asia" by Elgin Gates. I was facinated by it and this trophy hunter's exploits. I understand he has also authoured "Trophy Hunter in Africa" as well. He is (or was) a facinating hunter having collected more game species than anyone else at the time and he is reputed to have opened up unhunted (by western trophy hunters) game fields in Asia and Africa. He was also a (and the youngest at the time) winner of the Weatherby Big Game Award. He is also credited with the 7th best Elephant of all time, see http://www.safaripress.com/page51.html, taken with his favourite rifle, a 300 Weatherby!!

I hear he had one of the finest trophy rooms in the US (if not the world) and he died in 1988. He sounds like a man of great passion for the sport of trophy hunting and with an unusual drive to do what he has done.

I'd like to know more about him, pictures of his trophy room (which I heard was destroyed by fire before he died) and converse with anyone who knew him or about him.

Magnum308

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ELGIN GATES??	magnum308	12/06/04 12:01 PM
Re: ELGIN GATES??	gryphon	31/05/12 07:19 PM
Re: ELGIN GATES??	500Boswell	03/06/12 09:51 AM
Re: ELGIN GATES??	mikeh416Rigby	04/06/12 01:52 AM
Re: ELGIN GATES??	500Boswell	04/06/12 12:13 PM
Re: ELGIN GATES??	mikeh416Rigby	04/06/12 03:10 PM
Re: ELGIN GATES??	magnum308	19/02/11 11:37 PM
Re: ELGIN GATES??	4seventy	23/02/11 03:59 PM
Re: ELGIN GATES??	luv2safari	14/06/04 01:55 PM
Re: ELGIN GATES??	Boghossian	16/06/04 06:37 AM
Re: ELGIN GATES??	magnum308	10/09/04 08:29 AM
Re: ELGIN GATES??	Boghossian	11/09/04 07:16 AM
Re: ELGIN GATES??	mickey	11/09/04 02:50 PM
Re: ELGIN GATES??	DPhillips	11/09/04 04:11 PM
Re: ELGIN GATES??	mickey	12/09/04 01:55 PM
Re: ELGIN GATES??	Boghossian	13/09/04 12:39 AM
Re: ELGIN GATES??	allenday	19/06/04 09:22 AM
Re: ELGIN GATES??	ovis	12/06/04 06:27 PM

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