Recent content by billrquimby

I'm fed up with pseudo-scientists trying to dissect what I do and why I do it. The truth is, I hunt because I must and I will hunt until I cannot. Bill Quimby

I've mounted mountain lion rugs to two different types of walls: One was drywall, and I simply used a staple gun and nailed the felt to the wall, with staples every six inches or so around the rug. The staples are under the lion skin and are hidden. The other was a rough block wall, and I...

I was fortunate to have hunted many times on several large farms owned by friends in South Africa during the early 1980s before passage of what I call its "Outfitter/PH Protection Act." I stayed in hotels, rented a baakie and hunted with only a black farmworker to help me load the game I shot...

There actually are two SCIs. One is Safari Club International, the 50,000-member organization, and the Safari Club International Foundation, its conservation and education wing. Bill Quimby

JimP: You apparently talked with some rare individuals from that echelon of hunters. I have spent a lot of time with many experienced international hunters/collectors and know only two who felt that way about a gun. J.Y. Jones, an opthamologist and an author, used the same Remington .30-06 to...

Cody: I think you would be disappointed if you tried to interview most of these guys. You would have to work very hard to get any details about the rifles they used. As I said, guns merely were their tools. It would be like asking a plumber to talk about his favorite monkey wrench or an...

I have written, ghostwritten, co-written, or "edited" (rewriten) the hunting memoirs of many of the world's most experienced big game hunters, seven of them Weatherby Award recipients. All but one had hunted on six continents and taken nearly everything that walks, from muntjac to elephant. The...

Do the lawyers here believe the organizer of the anti-hunting petition drive could be successfully sued by the show's promoter? Bill Quimby

Hi Henri. Didn't know you were a member of this site. Hope you, Riana and Priscilla are well. Bill Quimby

8x60: I was fortunate to have hunted with several original high-quality muzzleloaders from the 19th and 18th centuries because my friend bought, restored and resold a lot of them. (He had worked in the Tower of London as a restorer before becoming one of the world's best-known firearms...

Beautiful shotgun. When my friend Lynton McKenzie still was alive we used to shoot mourning doves with a pair of flintlock double-barrel shotguns built in very early 1800s by a gunmaker named Manton. The click, flash, boom, and a cloud of white smoke every time we pulled a trigger took a while...

After using a .30-06 for my first safari in 1983, I switched to a 7mm Remington Magnum shooting handloaded 175-grain Nosler Partitions for all my hunts down there since then. The rifle and ammo served me well for everything from grysbok to eland. Out of about two dozen different species, only...

The date given in the article for the discovery of the carcass of Mafunyane (November 16, 1983) is wrong. My first trip to South Africa was in June 1983. As an American newspaper journalist, the South African Tourist Board (SATOUR) hosted me on a tour of all of the country's national parks...

SCI's publications (magazine, newspapers, record books) and awards programs also are revenue sources. Bill Quimby

Before my first trip to Zimbabwe in 1983 I thought I would never want to shoot zebra, elephant or baboon. After a bunch of mock charges in my first week in the Matetsi, I removed elephant from that list. I regret never having the opportunity to get even with one of those horrific six-ton...