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Franz Ferdinand got around ...
      13/02/12 02:22 AM

http://ozebook.com/wordpress/archives/6153

A lot of bile in the article but interesting that Franz Ferdinand hunted in Australia.

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Ferdinand’s favorite hunting expeditions of all were the destination hunts: early bush safaris in exotic destinations. For example, the Sydney Morning Herald from May 22nd, 1893 relates the Archduke’s “shooting excursion” in the west of NSW, listing among the game a large number of emu, turkey and kangaroo. The article describes how the Archduke, sitting beneath a canopy, quickly “established himself as a first-class marksman” as twenty horsemen and an even larger pack of dogs spent the greater part of the day driving the local wildlife within shooting range. Far from even hinting that this degree of bloodlust was anything other than “sport,” the article does the opposite and praises the rapidity with which the Archduke was able to shoot kangaroos from the a shooting station in the shade. Even for an avid hunter in the 21st century, it’s hard to consider this as anything other than excessive and vulgar.




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