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15/06/17 04:09 PM
Re: Africa vintage pic thread

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the swedisch hunter allan lunderquist with a now extinct scimitar oryx shoot with a Schultz&Larsen in 7x61


rare trophy pic showing a scimitar oryx



https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scimitar_oryx
"The scimitar oryx was hunted almost to extinction for its horns.[when?] Its population decline began as a result of major climatic changes that caused the Sahara to become dry. The northern population was already almost lost before the 20th century. The decline of the southern population accelerated as Europeans began to settle the area and hunt them for meat, hides and horn trophies. World War II and the Civil War in Chad that started in the 1960s are thought to have caused heavy decreases of the species through an increase in hunting for food.[5][25] Roadkill, nomadic settlements near waterholes (their dry-season feeding places) and firearms for easy hunting have also reduced numbers.[26"

you can believe it or not "The decline of the southern population accelerated as Europeans began to settle the area and hunt them for meat"
this animal was hunted for centurys this way






I love the artwork over this door arch. I wonder where and what building this i?



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sudan in the 1920-1930s
http://a.abcnews.com/images/US/GTY_africa_trophy_hunting_1_jt_150731_4x3_992.jpg








Wow look at those tusks! Magnificent.Make the immature "trophy" tusks some take nowadays look like toothpicks.



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