Vintage Safari Pictures

Both persons have some influence on hunting.
Tito, however never sent anyone to prison, or anything like that just for shooting better trophy...

And there are many recorded anecdotes of Tito, hunting, and political hunts. But he raised the hunting level to very high international standard, and hunting experts of former Yugoslavia had influced the CIC scoring system, plus trophies of former YU, have scored high (as never before) on international hunting exibitions, as a product of good systematic game managment efforts.

Once, he (Tito) was hunting in Slovenia, and security detail took away all hunting rifles of local hunters who should have participated in hunt.
He knew that.
During inital brefing, he said to his driver, to open the trunk of limousine.
Inside was a crate with brand new zastava rifles.
He then, told the driver - pls ditrubute the rifles to local hunters... (which they have kept later). He, had a touch for small people... Even today, well remembered and appreciated by many. Hated by some, as well.

When hunting boars on a hunt with Causescu, they both fired at same driven boar.
However, as per rules, the boar came on stand where Tito was. It shouldm have been, Tito.s kill. Both fired, Causescu brakeing ethical code.
Later they examined the boar, and Causescu was looking for the bullet hole from his side of shooting.
There was no hole.
Tito asked, what are you looking for?
He said, I am looking for my bullet hole!
It took some time, no hole to be observed, and probably being irritated by this situation, Tito raised the tail of boar and said:
Look under the tail, there is one hole, check is it yours...

Goring: Jagd master of german reich
His hunting laws are mainly (I beleive) still kept in Germany.
One was total ban of vivisection of live animals. Still valid today.

He had direct influence on creation of one excellent caliber, a true magnum before magnum era:
8x68
The idea was to create the best in the World, uber, ultimate hunting caliber.
The interesting is that the idea has passed the then-german parlament, and based on resolution of parlament, new caliber was created.
It is possibly the only (or very rare) occasion when sporting.hunting calibers was made under parlamanteray direction. Ususally sporting calibers are either wildcats, or makers development result. Not offical govt directive....

Below is the link for one rare footage of Tito during hunt, and there is also Causescu: Year 1977.
 
When hunting boars on a hunt with Causescu, they both fired at same driven boar.
However, as per rules, the boar came on stand where Tito was. It shouldm have been, Tito.s kill. Both fired, Causescu brakeing ethical code.
Later they examined the boar, and Causescu was looking for the bullet hole from his side of shooting.
There was no hole.
Tito asked, what are you looking for?
He said, I am looking for my bullet hole!
It took some time, no hole to be observed, and probably being irritated by this situation, Tito raised the tail of boar and said:
Look under the tail, there is one hole, check is it yours...
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Great story. Thank you for sharing all of them.
 
Your photos and stories got me to digging through an old book that had a safari with Tito and his wife in northern Tanzania in 1970. A friend of my fathers was the PH on the hunt. I have tried to capture the captions with the photos. @AfricaHunting.com Jerome, could you please position my photos right side up. Sorry for the inconvenience.

The Kori is alive. Balson got herd boys to run it to ground as a demonstration for Tito. This is an experience I have witnessed. Three or four boys will form a line 200 meters across and start running toward the bustard. The bustard will take off and fly a few hundred meters, tire and land. Then start walking fast. The boys will keep running towards the bustard and the bustard will take flight again but only be able to fly two hundred meters. Within a kilometer or two the bustard is worn out and the boys catch it. The reason the boys are stretched out in a line is to keep the bustard from turning on them. This can only be done on flat ground. I have seen Kori's in places like the Komas Hochland where they could never be caught in this way.
 
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Somehow I lost this photo from the previous ones.

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Wheels what is that book?
 
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is Eric Balson still alive ?
 
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Hunting a Giant Black Rhino East Africa 1910

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A big Kenya tusker with long East African ivory, right at 100 pounds
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A pair of Barbary Lions with their Maghrebian Berber captors in the Atlas Mountains, north of Sahara
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American President THEODORE ROOSEVELT measuring the second bull elephant taken during his iconic hunting safari in British East Africa 1909
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A big male leopard shot in the Aberdare mountains of Kenya in 1968. The photo is from the book, "Shoot Straight and Stay Alive" by professional hunter Fred Bartlett. The skull of this leopard is listed in the Rowland Ward Records, measuring 273mm long and 178mm wide (17.75 inch total score). Bartlett said this was one of the biggest leopards he had seen in the mountain forests of Kenya with a heavily built body, he estimated its weight at 200 to 220lbs. Bartlett appears to be a reliable source and this was probably a genuine 180lb+ leopard. Any leopard with a skull measuring 17 inches or more should be considered huge. As mentioned before, the leopards of the Rift Valley highland forests in East Africa were highly prized by trophy hunters. Of the leopard populations for which some appreciable data on weights has historically been recorded (ie. East/Southern Africa and India) these East African mountain leopards are IMO the most impressive. Apart from Iran where a few 200lb leopards have now been recorded most genuine 200lbers recorded historically have come from the highland forests of East Africa. The heaviest being a 212lb leopard with a 18.76 inch skull shot on Mt Kenya in 1964 which is probably the heaviest leopard reliably recorded in my opinion. PH Hamilton who carried out much research on leopards in Kenya gives a weight range for male highland forest leopards in the country as 60-95kg, the upper limit probably being derived from this specimen.
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Africa's most famous explorer, slavery abolitionist, missionary and of course, a hunter: David Livingstone (b. 1813 Scotland - d. 1873 Lake Bangweulu, Zambia). Seen here with family his two former porters and adjutants, James Chuma and Abdullah Susi, who later accompanied his dead body to England and assisted in the revision of his maps on previously uncharted large chunks of Africa. Seen here atop the skin of one of his lions, likely the one who mauled him to near death, leaving him partially paralyzed and wounded for the rest of his life.
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Ernest Hemingway and his first Rhino
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Ernest Hemingway and his lions
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From the old days of Kenya and archives of the Cottars most famous American family there ever was guiding safaris
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A glimpse into the G&T break in between hunting during the Golden Age of the African Safaris. British East Africa, 1920s. One can recognize Denys Finch Hatton in the middle, pouring. He was the inspiration for "Out Of Africa", after he died in an airplane crash.
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super pics Hoas,thank you.
On the left of DFH is the Prince of Wales,later King Edward VIII.
The right one ?
I have to leaf through my old books for that.
 
My pleasure as always Foxi!

super pics Hoas,thank you.
On the left of DFH is the Prince of Wales,later King Edward VIII.
The right one ?
I have to leaf through my old books for that.

Not sure.. don't have that much knowledge about that time but do have a passion for the "Old days".

Weidmannsheil!
 
super pics Hoas,thank you.
On the left of DFH is the Prince of Wales,later King Edward VIII.
The right one ?
I have to leaf through my old books for that.
Hi Foxi!
Most of the sources tell me that the other man on the photo is Gordon Henry Anderson, the well-known elephant hunter (wrote the book "African Safaris").

On the other hand, i also saw a caption somewhere that it's NOT Anderson but a Game Ranger named Ray Hewlett who also accompanied the hunting party for some time...
Many great hunters were present when the Prince of Wales hunted in East Africa (Bror Blixen, Finch-Hatton, Pete Pearson, "Samaki" Salmon, G. H. Anderson) - but the person sitting at the table looks definetely like Anderson.

There's a good book about the east african hunting trips of the Prince of Wales of 1928 and 1930; it's called "Sport and Travel in East Africa", written by Patrick Chalmers - the picture was taken on one of those safaris but i don't know if it's in the book.
In this book there's a the story when elephant hunter Pete Pearson threw the Prince in the thorns to save him from a charging bull elephant... Classic reading.
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Both persons have some influence on hunting.
Tito, however never sent anyone to prison, or anything like that just for shooting better trophy...



When hunting boars on a hunt with Causescu, they both fired at same driven boar.
However, as per rules, the boar came on stand where Tito was. It shouldm have been, Tito.s kill. Both fired, Causescu brakeing ethical code.
Later they examined the boar, and Causescu was looking for the bullet hole from his side of shooting.
There was no hole.
Tito asked, what are you looking for?
He said, I am looking for my bullet hole!
It took some time, no hole to be observed, and probably being irritated by this situation, Tito raised the tail of boar and said:
Look under the tail, there is one hole, check is it yours...



Below is the link for one rare footage of Tito during hunt, and there is also Causescu: Year 1977.

Mark, i love your Ceausescu-story! I nearly spilled my coffee over the table...

I remember being on a international hunting exhibition in Ljubljana / Slovenia (then Jugoslavia) in the late 1970s or early 80s... The best trophies were from "Marschall" Tito. Impressive bears, ibex from Triglav Mountain, giant red stags...

Even today, my slovenian and bosnian friends don't talk bad about Tito. They say he was a tough guy, but fair to his people...
By the way - is it true, that there is still a island in the Croatian Coast, where the live animals that Tito got as present are to be seen in a zoo? And what happened to Tito's trophies - are they in a museum?

I have some Tito-pictures for you - those with Sowjet-President Leonid Breschnew are cool - please note the giant revolver in Breschnew's belt... :)

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Hello Kouprey,
thanks for the other great photos.
Judging by the sharply profiled nose, it could well be Andy Anderson.
I was skiing in Trentino for a few days and saw this morning that you are a new member.
Welcome to the best forum and I am very happy to have an "Africa historian" in the neighbourhood.
Maybe we can meet one day, maybe at the hunting fair, but my plan is not fixed to visit Salzburg.
However.
Welcome and best greetings from Munich.
Servus
Foxi
 

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