| 470Nitro |
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| 19/03/05 03:46 AM |
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Giant Sable
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World Record
| 475Guy |
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| 19/03/05 11:58 AM |
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That's definitely a nice one. I'd bet my bottom dollar that he was shot some time ago in the past. From what I gather, they don't get to grow that big anymore with today's hunting pressure and some poaching thrown in.
NitroX
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| 19/03/05 11:37 PM |
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Magnificient!
| DPhillips |
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| 20/03/05 08:29 AM |
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Isn't that a Giant (Angolan) Sable? If so, I think they are on the Endangered Species list now and cannot be hunted.
| shakari |
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| 20/03/05 05:12 PM |
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Until recently they were thought to have become extinct but at least one herd estimated at up to (If I remember correctly) 200 were found last year.
The hope is obviously that they will now increase in number and possibly limited hunting will be allowed at some time in the future.............but boy will they be expensive!!!!
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| 20/03/05 11:44 PM |
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If you look to the left of the sable there is a photo on a stand. This photo looks familiar and has done the rounds on forums maybe a year ago.
| DBBill |
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| 21/03/05 04:40 AM |
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There was a 50+" sable shot last year by one of Adam Clement's clients --- Zambia I believe.
| csutton7 |
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| 21/03/05 04:01 PM |
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awesome--chris
| 470Nitro |
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| 22/03/05 01:35 AM |
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En respuesta a:
I'd bet my bottom dollar that he was shot some time ago in the past.
September 1949, by the "Conde of Yebes".
En respuesta a:
Isn't that a Giant (Angolan) Sable?
Yes, it's. 65 inches.
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If you look to the left of the sable there is a photo on a stand. This photo looks familiar and has done the rounds on forums maybe a year ago.
I'll post the picture later.
| 470Nitro |
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| 23/03/05 03:36 AM |
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This is the picture:
| 475Guy |
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| 23/03/05 11:29 AM |
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1949,huh! It's amazing how that full-bodied mount has retain it's shape and no hair falling out. I guess there's some kind of stuff that can sprayed on to preserve it. The pic just reinforces the fact the Sable was HUGE, with his hand holding the one horn.
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| 23/03/05 01:23 PM |
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Unbelieveable.
Thanks for posting the photo. It is a different one to the one I was thinking of.
| BFaucett |
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| 25/03/05 08:22 AM |
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# Hardcover: 320 pages
# Publisher: Atlantic Monthly Press; 1st edition (October 1, 2002)
# ISBN: 0871138581
Interesting reading. Available at Amazon.com (and others).
Another interesting book:
Author: Prentiss Gray
Data: 1995 Missoula, MT, 195 pp, illus, maps, large format, index, photo end papers.
Prentiss Gray was a prominent Boone & Crockett member who made an extensive African hunting trip in 1929. He kept meticulous diaries, which are now being published for the first time. Among other game, he shot a rare giant sable in Angola. Produced with 120 photographs taken by the author and his wife Laura. They were guided by the famous PWH Philip Percival in Kenya, where they hunted for antelope as well as members of the Big Five. Introduction by Tony Dyer.
ISBN: 0-940864-23-1
Available at Safari Press ( http://www.safaripress.com/ )
-Bob F.
| larcher |
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| 31/03/05 12:29 AM |
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470
"September 1949, by the "Conde of Yebes".
Has not Tony Sanchez Ari^no related the hunt of this gentleman?
| 470Nitro |
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En respuesta a:
Has not Tony Sanchez Ari^no related the hunt of this gentleman?
May be, there're several books relating that hunt.