Comments on: Dangerous Jobs: Big Game Hunter; Capstick’s “Death in the Long Grass” http://dethroner.com/2006/11/16/dangerous-jobs-big-game-hunter-capsticks-death-in-the-long-grass/ Where every man is king. Fri, 04 Sep 2009 10:06:33 -0500 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: dzot http://dethroner.com/2006/11/16/dangerous-jobs-big-game-hunter-capsticks-death-in-the-long-grass/comment-page-1/#comment-2322 dzot Sat, 18 Nov 2006 05:04:28 +0000 http://dethroner.com/index.php/2006/11/16/dangerous-jobs-big-game-hunter-capsticks-death-in-the-long-grass/#comment-2322 Capstick was not only a great hunter, he was a wondeful writer who lived his dream of adventure. He would often describe his occupation as a "professional small boy." I highly recommend his retelling of the story fo Patterson and the Tsvao lions. Especially if all you know of it is that steaming pile of crap movie "The Ghost and The Darkness". Capstick was not only a great hunter, he was a wondeful writer who lived his dream of adventure. He would often describe his occupation as a “professional small boy.”

I highly recommend his retelling of the story fo Patterson and the Tsvao lions. Especially if all you know of it is that steaming pile of crap movie “The Ghost and The Darkness”.

]]> By: Ian Manning http://dethroner.com/2006/11/16/dangerous-jobs-big-game-hunter-capsticks-death-in-the-long-grass/comment-page-1/#comment-2302 Ian Manning Fri, 17 Nov 2006 07:04:19 +0000 http://dethroner.com/index.php/2006/11/16/dangerous-jobs-big-game-hunter-capsticks-death-in-the-long-grass/#comment-2302 Peter Capstick did his first safaris with me in Zambia in 1969, in the Luangwa Valley. I took a number of the pictures in DEATH IN THE LONG GRASS, and the chapter on hippo hunting extolls my methodology - the real story is a little different but I don't hold that against him as he has given so many so much pleasure.The picture of the tusks on the cover, shot by Peter and myself with some Mexican clients is still a record for four elephant on one safari in Zambia, at a time when we had 100 000 elephant there. Peter became a great friend, though I never again saw him in person. What he ever had to do with elephant cropping was a brief stint on the elephant cropping scheme in Zambia - not Kenya, where he went out with the croppers for awhile, doubtless helping here and there. I was formerly in charge there so know some of the story. I was interested to read that 'DEATH..' still sells so well. It was first published in the mainstream press, before the anti-hunters pushed hunting into a specialist book section. My book, WITH A GUN IN GOOD COUNTRY published by trophy Room Books in Agoura, California in 1995, was a limited edition (1000 copies) which could have done well as it is really a bush memoire of many years in the bush - not just hunting stories. As there are only a few books (100 or so?) left with the publishers, perhaps you could all buy them so that I can be freed of the contract and put it out to the mainstream publishers where it too might find ready general acceptance, and give pleasure to many. Go easy on the hunters, for they are our greatest conservationists. Here in Zambia, beset by the bushmeat trade which just saw 5 elephant shot for meat last Sunday in my area, without hunting and hunters, we would see our glorious wildlife follow the black rhino into extinction. Yours aye Ian Manning gamefields@zamnet.zm Peter Capstick did his first safaris with me in Zambia in 1969, in the Luangwa Valley. I took a number of the pictures in DEATH IN THE LONG GRASS, and the chapter on hippo hunting extolls my methodology – the real story is a little different but I don’t hold that against him as he has given so many so much pleasure.The picture of the tusks on the cover, shot by Peter and myself with some Mexican clients is still a record for four elephant on one safari in Zambia, at a time when we had 100 000 elephant there. Peter became a great friend, though I never again saw him in person. What he ever had to do with elephant cropping was a brief stint on the elephant cropping scheme in Zambia – not Kenya, where he went out with the croppers for awhile, doubtless helping here and there. I was formerly in charge there so know some of the story.

I was interested to read that ‘DEATH..’ still sells so well. It was first published in the mainstream press, before the anti-hunters pushed hunting into a specialist book section. My book, WITH A GUN IN GOOD COUNTRY published by trophy Room Books in Agoura, California in 1995, was a limited edition (1000 copies) which could have done well as it is really a bush memoire of many years in the bush – not just hunting stories. As there are only a few books (100 or so?) left with the publishers, perhaps you could all buy them so that I can be freed of the contract and put it out to the mainstream publishers where it too might find ready general acceptance, and give pleasure to many.

Go easy on the hunters, for they are our greatest conservationists. Here in Zambia, beset by the bushmeat trade which just saw 5 elephant shot for meat last Sunday in my area, without hunting and hunters, we would see our glorious wildlife follow the black rhino into extinction.
Yours aye
Ian Manning
gamefields@zamnet.zm

]]> By: gergtreble http://dethroner.com/2006/11/16/dangerous-jobs-big-game-hunter-capsticks-death-in-the-long-grass/comment-page-1/#comment-2294 gergtreble Fri, 17 Nov 2006 01:18:04 +0000 http://dethroner.com/index.php/2006/11/16/dangerous-jobs-big-game-hunter-capsticks-death-in-the-long-grass/#comment-2294 I might have to pick one of these up. My girlfriend is from Kenya, so theres a strong chance I may end up out there at some point. And I want to know how not to get ambushed by Leopards. I might have to pick one of these up.

My girlfriend is from Kenya, so theres a strong chance I may end up out there at some point. And I want to know how not to get ambushed by Leopards.

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