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A forgotten hunter 2

On his way, he got a .450 NE by i.Meffert, Suhl too. He also mentions a 9mm Mannlicher-Schoenauer. Finally he acquired an 8x57 Mauser, firing the then standard load of a 227 gr jacketed bullet at 2040 fps. From then on he shot all game, including buffalo, with the 8mm Mauser and used his .600 for elephant and rhino only. A map of Africa with Schomburg’s travels 1898 to 1909:

Two tusks at 180 pounds each:

In EastAfrica he caught several younf elephants and other animals for the Hagenbeck zoo, Hamburg.
In 1910 he returned to Germany for the first time and published his first book “Wild und Wilde = Game and Savages”
(To be continued)

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