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My guess is that American Springfield in "303" was really in 30/03 which was the forerunner of the 30/06 . I may be wrong but it would be unusual to find a springfield in a "303" (and they also have it listed as a "Mauser", I know they made some Mausers in 303?)
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Good post as always. I thought the scimitar oryx still exists in Texas and possibly even Australia? (could be a similar species ?)

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Just finished up mounting my 2 types of Oryx.

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James L. Clark working 1929 in the Serengeti on a diorama for the American Museum of Natural History

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Herr Zwilling was a Doctor wasn't he? If so, I have a German language movie about his time in Africa.

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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

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

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lion problems? buy yourself a walther pistol

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IT will be the LAST pistol you EVER buy..

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Well the last pistol you will ever use.

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Very funny advert and comments. One can see the advertising BS was weell and truy alive before the invention of the internet.

Maybe a Walther was good for keeping unruly and unco-operative 'natives' in order?!

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Georges Riga &Co in Liege sell bimbo guns




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Other than guns for bimbos what is a "fire-stone"?

Bad translation perhaps for cartridges or perhaps the age of the advert was still in the transition between cartridge and muzzle loading firearms?

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Good post as always. I thought the scimitar oryx still exists in Texas and possibly even Australia? (could be a similar species ?)

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Well done Sarg, Did you take this one in Texas? I would love to know what a hunt there costs? Perhaps PM me? Thanks.

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yes, I think bad translation

believe they meaning cheap shotguns made by reboring the old BP single shot rifle like the french Gras or the Mauser 71 and real flintlocks, old or new made for the african trade







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Giraffe house Zoological Garden in Berlin, probably restored or new made after old pics if destroyed in WW 2 by Villeroy & Boch in 1986. could be the firm also that had made the original before the great war.
notice three are scimitar oryx but one is a addax antelope!







from a time when people understand how to build good looking houses also for animals.

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Maybe a Walther was good for keeping unruly and unco-operative 'natives' in order?!

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with reason as you know don't fight lions or grizzly with a pistol less than 9mm Browning/380 Auto



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