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Re: Africa vintage pic thread [Re: bwanabobftw]
      #301713 - 13/06/17 10:53 AM

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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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Yes, my thoughts exactly !

So Winchester .405 was a 95 & the .32 may have been a 92 in 32/20, for small game ?


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Re: Africa vintage pic thread [Re: bwanabobftw]
      #301729 - 13/06/17 10:45 PM


Yes it could be a .32 as well as that is listed.

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Re: Africa vintage pic thread [Re: NitroX]
      #301732 - 14/06/17 01:46 AM

I would think the .32 Winchester Special in the Model 94 would be more useful in Africa.

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Re: Africa vintage pic thread [Re: NitroX]
      #301753 - 14/06/17 07:43 PM

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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 ?)




Just finished up mounting my 2 types of Oryx.

Here is my Scimitar !



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Re: Africa vintage pic thread [Re: lancaster]
      #301775 - 15/06/17 04:03 PM

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








Those are very small lions!

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ernst zwilling

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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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Re: Africa vintage pic thread [Re: lancaster]
      #301776 - 15/06/17 04:09 PM

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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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Re: Africa vintage pic thread [Re: Rule303]
      #301777 - 15/06/17 04:12 PM

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lion problems? buy yourself a walther pistol








IT will be the LAST pistol you EVER buy..

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Well the last pistol you will ever use.




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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Re: Africa vintage pic thread [Re: lancaster]
      #301778 - 15/06/17 04:15 PM

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Georges Riga &Co in Liege sell bimbo guns




1910





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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Re: Africa vintage pic thread [Re: Sarg]
      #301779 - 15/06/17 04:16 PM

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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 ?)




Just finished up mounting my 2 types of Oryx.

Here is my Scimitar !






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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Re: Africa vintage pic thread [Re: NitroX]
      #301795 - 15/06/17 08:54 PM




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?




Judging from the other language versions "fire-stone" (German "Feuerstein" or "flint") meant "flintlock". However the French version says "percussion", which would indicate "cap-lock". In any event, "muzzle loading".


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Re: Africa vintage pic thread [Re: lancaster]
      #301810 - 16/06/17 03:55 AM

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Georges Riga &Co in Liege sell bimbo guns





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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Re: Africa vintage pic thread [Re: NitroX]
      #301811 - 16/06/17 04:02 AM



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ernst zwilling

[image]






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




Professor Doctor Zwilling

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Re: Africa vintage pic thread [Re: NitroX]
      #301812 - 16/06/17 04:25 AM

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







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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Re: Africa vintage pic thread [Re: NitroX]
      #301826 - 16/06/17 07:15 AM

Thank you, yes came out good, I just did some of the grunt work on it !

No this is Australian model, there was a herd or two in Aussie, dont know what happen to them now as Kevin who I did some work for passed away last year just before Matt, terrible year last year !

This was the biggest Bull I could find & have ever seen myself, he goes over 45in, there are some offered in South Africa at good prices some times, dont know the quality of the hunting experience how ever !


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Re: Africa vintage pic thread [Re: Sarg]
      #302305 - 24/06/17 03:54 AM



africa orientale italiana

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Re: Africa vintage pic thread [Re: Sarg]
      #313983 - 15/03/18 12:59 AM




rhodesia



south west



belgian congo

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Re: Africa vintage pic thread [Re: lancaster]
      #319593 - 03/09/18 10:52 PM

cameroon and central africa
https://www.delcampe.net/fr/cartes-postales/afrique/republique-centrafricaine?f=sports:chasse





















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Re: Africa vintage pic thread [Re: lancaster]
      #319594 - 03/09/18 11:02 PM

belgian congo

https://www.delcampe.net/fr/cartes-postales/afrique/congo-kinshasa?f=sports:chasse
























french congo

https://www.delcampe.net/fr/cartes-postales/afrique/congo-brazzaville?f=sports:chasse

































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Re: Africa vintage pic thread [Re: lancaster]
      #319638 - 06/09/18 07:48 PM

Excellent Landcaster.

Thanks very much for posting these vintage snapshots and old photos. From an age long gone and being forgotten and being purposefully written out of history.

Looking at these photos and thoughts of the places and times, I again think I was born a hundred years too late. Making a big assumption of course, that if born a hundred years earlier I would have been in a position to partake!

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Re: Africa vintage pic thread [Re: NitroX]
      #321275 - 06/11/18 04:08 AM

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Quote:

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lion problems? buy yourself a walther pistol








IT will be the LAST pistol you EVER buy..

Ripp




Well the last pistol you will ever use.




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?!




this old advertisement for a 7,65 Browning/32 Auto Walther pistol got a lot of laughter

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



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Re: Africa vintage pic thread [Re: lancaster]
      #322228 - 06/12/18 07:52 AM

just stumple about this fine old postcard


https://oldthing.de/AK-Chasse-a-la-Panth...pard-0032678739


great picture, rifle looks like a berthier carbine



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Re: Africa vintage pic thread [Re: lancaster]
      #323205 - 11/01/19 06:57 PM


1937 AFRICA ORIENTALE ITALIANA

https://www.ebay.ie/itm/CARTOLINA-1937-A...0-/131695164605











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Re: Africa vintage pic thread [Re: lancaster]
      #323231 - 12/01/19 01:29 PM

thanks very much lanc!!

great stuff as usual!!!

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Re: Africa vintage pic thread [Re: Sarg]
      #324352 - 07/02/19 04:52 AM

Schutztruppen soldier with carbine 88 in camerun 1906



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Re: Africa vintage pic thread [Re: lancaster]
      #324533 - 11/02/19 10:53 AM

Cool photo.

Time for a photo and a pipe.

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