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Post by dutchtrapper on Dec 15, 2007 8:07:35 GMT -5
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Post by Jack on Dec 15, 2007 11:29:51 GMT -5
Amazing pictures! Thank you, Dutchtrapper, for posting them.
I see a number of different firearms used. Among them a Winchester lever- I think a 94. And of course the Dutch Mannlicher, probably in 6.5x53?
Dutchtrapper, do you know the approximate year (s) those were taken?
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Post by dutchtrapper on Dec 15, 2007 13:40:50 GMT -5
My dad was there between 1945 and 1949. He said to me that he had probely seen about every gun made in those time from musket till a vicker  . |
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Post by Jack on Dec 15, 2007 13:50:14 GMT -5
Lol, I bet, Dutchtrapper! I'm sure there were a lot of different firearms floating around in that era. And probably airplanes, ships, and everything else.
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Post by dutchtrapper on Dec 15, 2007 13:54:47 GMT -5
And in those times, tiger where varmint, elephants where problem annimals, and he said there where a lot of wildboars there  |
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Gila
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and a Vernier sight. It's marked up to twelve-hundred yards. This one shoots a mite further.
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Post by Gila on Dec 15, 2007 15:17:50 GMT -5
Those are some of the greatest pictures I have seen in a long, long time. Absolutely fantastic!
Thanks a lot for ssharing them with us!
Man, would I have loved to have been able to do some of that!
Wow!
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Post by sebastian on Dec 16, 2007 4:22:55 GMT -5
Indonesia has very poor wildlife/game management, imo.
As Theun says, in those times: tiger, elephant, wildboar etc were "varmint", but in these days you're a poacher/breaking the local laws if you hunt tiger, elephant, anoa (kind like cow & deer), kerbau (buffalo), tapir (i'm not sure it's name in english), badak (rhino), beruang madu (bear), banteng (kind of wild cow), babirusa (spesific pig in Sulawesi island, has strange tusks) and some others.
It's a sad thing....You can only hunt for boar & some other small games in these days.
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