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magnum308
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ELGIN GATES??
      12/06/04 12:01 PM

Hi, I'm from Brisbane, Australia and new to this forum. I got a book many years ago called "Trophy Hunter in Asia" by Elgin Gates. I was facinated by it and this trophy hunter's exploits. I understand he has also authoured "Trophy Hunter in Africa" as well. He is (or was) a facinating hunter having collected more game species than anyone else at the time and he is reputed to have opened up unhunted (by western trophy hunters) game fields in Asia and Africa. He was also a (and the youngest at the time) winner of the Weatherby Big Game Award. He is also credited with the 7th best Elephant of all time, see http://www.safaripress.com/page51.html, taken with his favourite rifle, a 300 Weatherby!!

I hear he had one of the finest trophy rooms in the US (if not the world) and he died in 1988. He sounds like a man of great passion for the sport of trophy hunting and with an unusual drive to do what he has done.

I'd like to know more about him, pictures of his trophy room (which I heard was destroyed by fire before he died) and converse with anyone who knew him or about him.

Magnum308


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* ELGIN GATES?? magnum308 12/06/04 12:01 PM
. * * Re: ELGIN GATES?? gryphon   31/05/12 07:19 PM
. * * Re: ELGIN GATES?? 500Boswell   03/06/12 09:51 AM
. * * Re: ELGIN GATES?? mikeh416Rigby   04/06/12 01:52 AM
. * * Re: ELGIN GATES?? 500Boswell   04/06/12 12:13 PM
. * * Re: ELGIN GATES?? mikeh416Rigby   04/06/12 03:10 PM
. * * Re: ELGIN GATES?? magnum308   19/02/11 11:37 PM
. * * Re: ELGIN GATES?? 4seventy   23/02/11 03:59 PM
. * * Re: ELGIN GATES?? luv2safari   14/06/04 01:55 PM
. * * Re: ELGIN GATES?? Boghossian   16/06/04 06:37 AM
. * * Re: ELGIN GATES?? magnum308   10/09/04 08:29 AM
. * * Re: ELGIN GATES?? Boghossian   11/09/04 07:16 AM
. * * Re: ELGIN GATES?? mickey   11/09/04 02:50 PM
. * * Re: ELGIN GATES?? DPhillips   11/09/04 04:11 PM
. * * Re: ELGIN GATES?? mickey   12/09/04 01:55 PM
. * * Re: ELGIN GATES?? Boghossian   13/09/04 12:39 AM
. * * Re: ELGIN GATES?? allenday   19/06/04 09:22 AM
. * * Re: ELGIN GATES?? ovis   12/06/04 06:27 PM

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