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Gaur Hunt - unknown
Maharajah of Bikaneer with his 200th tiger, 1939.
Rhino hunt in Nepal.
Rhino Hunt, possibly Maharajah Citarakhan of Nepal.
Lord and Lady Curzon with tiger shot in India, 1903.
Father and son native tiger hunt, India 1930s.
Indian hunter with a Himalayan black bear, 1930s.
Nepal, butchered rhinos
Lord and Lady Cuzon, governor of India in 1903 with tiger.
Prince of Wales, after his tiger hunt.
Skinning a tiger.
Male Javan rhino shot on 31 January 1934 at Sindangkerta in West Java. Specimen is preserved in the Zoological Museum of Buitenzorg (Bogor, Indonesia).
European hunter with a dead Javan rhinoceros, 1895, Java Island.
Borneo, 1925 - Captain George L. Anderson with a Javan Rhinoceros in Sandakan region of Sarawak.
Cambodia, 1930 - William Duckworth with a Javan Rhino.
Sumatra, 1952. From T. Schilling, Tijgermensen van Anai with trophy Sumatran rhino and native guides.
The Man-Eater of Champawat.
The Champawat Tiger is a legendary female Bengal Tiger. She is allegedly responsible for more then 400 human deaths in Nepal and the Kumaon area of India in the early 20th century. This tiger was often seen roaming the streets outside populated villages and would even try to break into huts. She was shot the day after killing a 16-year-old girl. Even today there remains a “cement board” marking the place where the tiger fell in Champawat town. An autopsy revealed that the tiger had broken upper and lower canine teeth on the right side of her mouth, which is often the case with man-eating animals. As humans are easier forms of prey. Around the same time the Panar Leopard was terrorizing people in the Kumaon District of Northern India. This male leopard is also alleged to have killed around 400 citizens, striking utter fear in the parents and children of many small villages. Both of these animals were hunted down and killed by legendary big cat hunter and author Jim Corbett. Corbett was an Indian-born British conservationist who was extremely talented at stalking and killing man-eaters. These two animals are widely regarded as the most deadly of all time.
N.A. Baikov, a lifetime member of the Society of Study of the Manchurian territory, the author of the book "In mountains and woods of Manchuria", St.-Petersburg,1915. Posing with a Manchurian tiger trophy at home.
A man-eater hunted in India by John Stoddard with natives, 1890s. Published in "India - 13 volumes" by John L. Stoddard in 1901.
Jim Corbet and the man-eating leopard of Rudraprayag, India.
"The Mother Of Evil" , terror of the hills, the man eating tigreass of Tallades, shot by Jim Corbet.
King George V of Britain, mounted on elephant during a shikar in Nepal, 1911.
Bird shooting party in Mandalay, western Burma, 1885.
King George V, mounted on elephant, departing for a shikar.
A massive tiger hunt organized by Maharajah of Alwar in 1926 for his British guests: a dozen elephants and aproximately 300 people involved.
Queen Elizabeth II and Prince Philip on tiger hunt in India, 1961.
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| 500Nitro |
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| 25/06/09 09:09 AM |
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Great stuff. Thanks for posting.
That last photo, Prince Phillip and Queen Elizabeth.
Who do you recon the Tall gent in middle is ?
It doesn't look like Prince Phillip.
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| 25/06/09 01:19 PM |
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Who do you recon the Tall gent in middle is ?
It doesn't look like Prince Phillip.
Mountbatten?
| Huvius |
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| 26/06/09 11:09 AM |
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Fantastic photos!
The Manchurian tiger looks like it was stretched over a bear form but I would think that then, forms were made in plaster one at a time.
I once saw a leopard that I swear was on some sort of ape form - the face was way too long and the hips were too high. Looked like a big spotted spider monkey!
| 9.3x57 |
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| 26/06/09 12:43 PM |
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GREAT stuff!!
Are we allowed a favorite?
Well, all of them, but if pressed I'd have to say the guy with the '95 is tops.
Thanks for posting.
| gatsby |
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| 26/06/09 02:33 PM |
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What great photos. Jim Corbet, Ganga Singh and check out that big muzzle loader! Where did you find them all?
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| 30/06/09 12:47 PM |
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... legendary big cat hunter and author Jim Corbett. Corbett was an Indian-born British conservationist who was extremely talented at stalking and killing man-eaters. These two animals are widely regarded as the most deadly of all time.
I highly recommend his book for those who haven't read it yet - Corbett comes across the decades as a sensitive, thinking man who respected the animals he hunted, often to put them out of their misery (he suspected painfully embedded porcupine quills drove them to their murderous rampages)
http://www.amazon.com/Man-Eaters-Kumaon-Oxford-India-Paperbacks/dp/0195622553
http://www.indiawildlifetravel.com/corbett-national-park.html
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Few more photos.
Sher shikar, tiger hunt in Kerala, India.
Hunting party in India with five tigers and one rhinoceros, possibly late 1920s.
Kachar shikar
Maharajah's daughter with dead leopard.
Indian potentates with tigers and Rolls Royces, Narsingh, India
Pig Sticking Club, India
British sportsmen in India, 1880s
Photos from this facebook group.
http://www.facebook.com/album.php?aid=119712&id=112045878486&ref=mf#/pages/Hunting
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T-P,
Great photos. Thanks for sharing them, missed seeing them before now.
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The gentleman in the colour pic is Ajai reddy in his younger days right?
i had planned to write a post about him.
| FATBOY404 |
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| 14/05/10 09:50 PM |
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Great photo's.
| shooter |
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| 19/05/10 05:42 PM |
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The photo of 5 tigers and one rhino is Nepal.
| shooter |
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| 30/07/10 04:16 AM |
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Sorry for the late uppdate but the colour pic is not of the great hunter Mr. Reddy but of Mr. Shammi Kapoor a famous movie star of the 60's.
| kamilaroi |
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| 30/07/10 09:35 AM |
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Btw Corbett's mother was Indian.
| DandyofPunjab |
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| 30/07/10 11:52 AM |
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Nope mate, she wasn't her name was Mary Jane Corbett she was Irish.
Dandy
| kamilaroi |
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| 30/07/10 12:10 PM |
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So his father was a local then?
| DandyofPunjab |
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| 30/07/10 12:48 PM |
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His father Christopher William Corbett was born in India but was Irish and he joined army as junior medical officer and later promoted to captain and then as a postmaster at Nainital where the family settled.
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| 31/07/10 02:06 AM |
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I understood too that Corbett was born in India, but from British ancestry.
Thanks Dandy for the information.
Coincidently I have some photos I scanned today supplied by Gatsby (Oz), one of the guys at the pheasant shoot connected with Corbett in modern days. His house and the museum today, plus Corbett National Park. I will post on a separate thread soon.
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| 09/08/10 05:37 PM |
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Corbett trained british troops for jungle warfare. He was made captain during world war.
He left India after India's indipendence.
He then went to his estate in Kenya where he established the now famous tree tops.
| kuduae |
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| 23/08/10 01:53 AM |
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Well, as this thread is named hunting in Asia…
Here are some photos from the books of German zoologist Ernst Schaefer (1910-1992), who travelled and hunted western Sichuan and eastern Tibet in the 1930s. His first two expeditions in 1930 and 34 were led and financed by American Brooke Dolan II, while his third 1938-39 one was pushed and sponsored by Nazi Heinrich Himmler to collect evidence for Himmler's obscure theories. (See Wikipedia:"Ernst Schaefer", "Brooke Dolan II", "German expedition to Tibet") Would you deny such an opportunity to hunt remote regions if the devil pais the expenses?
On some of the photos you will see Schaefer's favourite rifle, a ¾ stocked Mauser in 7x64,similar to the Mauser "African model", clawmounted with a Zeiss Zielacht 8x scope. He was provided with this rifle and the ammo by Wilhelm Brenneke, Leipzig. All these "Original Brenneke" prewar rifles were built for W.B.,L. by Schmidt & Habermann, Suhl,on Mauser actions, as shown by their ESHA mark in hidden places on these rifles.
First, something familiar to our Aussies: A Sambar stag from it's homerange.
The Dwarf Blue Sheep was discovered by Schaefer. The species got the scientific name pseudois shaeferi in his honor. It is perhaps the rarest of all sheep, the entire population estimated at 200 animals.
A common Blue Sheep or Bharal
A Wild Yak bull, perhaps the largest bovine, standing 2 meters high at the shoulder.
A Tibetan bear, specimens known mostly from Schaefer's expeditions.
More Tibetan bear.
| Sville |
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Thank you for sharing. Its very interesting with these historical photos. I would like to see more of this. Sville
| vykkagur |
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Indian potentates with tigers and Rolls Royces, Narsingh, India
I see the tiger. Where's the Rolls-Royce?
| DarylS |
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Now THIS a nice rifle.
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The great picture pincher on he net and facebook, Radu and his Hunting fb page is no more.
He had amassed a lot of old photos on his page. And also a lot of other people's photos, perhaps more recent. Facebook eventually acted on copyright complaints.
While understandable, as many of us do enforce our copyright(s) when possible, as our images are assets and creating original good images does cost money, his photo collection was useful and a great resource. Should ave raided it for the NE forums when it was still there! For vintage photos that is.
| vykkagur |
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| 07/02/20 11:38 PM |
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The great picture pincher on he net and facebook, Radu and his Hunting fb page is no more.
He had amassed a lot of old photos on his page. And also a lot of other people's photos, perhaps more recent. Facebook eventually acted on copyright complaints.
While understandable, as many of us do enforce our copyright(s) when possible, as our images are assets and creating original good images does cost money, his photo collection was useful and a great resource. Should ave raided it for the NE forums when it was still there! For vintage photos that is.
I'm very new to the forum and I've been trying to get caught up, but with so much wonderful material it's been slow progress. I'm afraid I'm unfamiliar with Radu and the extent of his work, but the way you speak makes me sad that I've missed a great opportunity to enjoy his collection of vintage photos. Is there no way those could be recovered and saved to an album for public viewing? Hopefully, Radu stored the photos offline somewhere. It would be a great shame to lose such a resource.