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 CAPSTICK HUNTING THE AFRICAN ELEPHANT
70 Minutes WE
Price
$24.95 NTSC(USA)
$39.95 PAL(Europe System)
Peter Hathaway Capstick has added to the
magnetism of the African bush more than any other modern writer. As a government cropping
officer, he personally shot over 800 elephants. But he had not sport hunted a trophy bull
Elephant on his own license until this safari with Volker Grellmann of ANVO Hunting
Safaris in the Bushmanland area of Namibia (formerly South West Africa). Peter shoots his
70 pound Jumbo on-camera (and, just to avoid confusion among the uninitiated, the old bull
was over 12 feet at the shoulder and weighed an estimated 14,000 pounds with two tusks
averaging 70 pounds each). Three other Elephants are harvested on-camera. The first
is a big 80 pounder taken by Jerry Heiner who, along with his wife Bam, shares camp with
Peter. The other two bulls are taken by Ken Wilson and Dave Harshbarger. The African
Elephant is subject to a variety of conditions: poaching and unregulated human
encroachment where it is endangered...enlightened game management where it is not.
Regulated sport hunters and sophisticated, government supported game managers are the
friends of the African Elephant. Together, they will be the salvation of Loxodonta
Africana, the world's largest living land animal.
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