Faunthorpe was an avid horseman and was very keen on pigsticking, he is said to have also speared leopard, cheetah and swamp deer from horseback. Born in Laidley, Queensland, in 1883 Paddy and his brothers joined Nat Buchanan in droving 20,000 head of cattle from Townsville, Queensland to Wave Hill Station in the Northern Territory, a task that took 54 weeks. In 1928 the Prince of Wales (later King Edward VIII) travelled through East Africa including Uganda, Pearson was charged with organising a hunting safari and for 8 days the Royal party hunted under Pearson's guidance. On the last day of the safari, a rogue bull elephant charged the Royal Party and Pearson placed himself between the Prince and the elephant, shooting with lethal effect. Leveson wrote a number of books about his sporting experiences under the pen name "The Old Shekarry", including Hunting grounds of the Old World and Sport in many lands.

On behalf of the government, Anderson shot a number of man-eating tigers and leopards as well as rogue bears and elephants that had threatened and killed local villagers, official records from 1939 to 1966 show he shot 7 man-eating tigers and 8 man-eating leopards, although he is rumoured to have shot many more. Born into a family of Scottish descent that had been in India for several generations, Anderson was a civil servant in Bangalore whose main pastime was watching and hunting game in the forests of Southern India. Inheriting a significant fortune and significant landholdings in South Carolina and Mississippi, Hampton was a very keen hunter of wild game on his plantations, particularly one plantation located near Greenville in northern Mississippi.the music is good and you can push it along but the ball pop bit isn’t very good it barely pops out the trunk! Watts Magnum, although for North American hunting he was an advocate of lighter flatter shooting projectiles and his name is synonymous with the . In addition, he was a member of the Royal Spanish Hunting Federation, and a member of the National Board of Homologation of Hunting Trophies and introduced the International Council for Game and Wildlife Conservation (CIC) in Spain, an international body of which he was president for three years (1981-1984). Born in London, but raised in Christchurch, New Zealand, Banks went to Africa in 1896 at the age of 21. LucyW 'Little one loves the balls shooting out, the little rings are different to what he is used to playing with so keep him entertained.

During that trip Harris shot elephant, quagga, giraffe, hippopotamus, wildebeest, hartebeast, impala, rhinoceros, waterbuck and giraffe, the ivory from the elephant he shot funded the entire expedition. The Old Shekarry", Henry Astbury Leveson [ edit ] Leveson shooting an Asian black bear, from Wild sports of the world. He retired from elephant hunting when most elephants moved into tsetse fly country, not wanting to risk himself or his horses. A very enthusiastic hunter who hunted extensively both within his own kingdom and beyond, Ganga Singh shot his first tiger, leopard and bear in 1869 aged 16 and in later years used hunting with visiting dignitaries to his kingdom as a means of diplomacy.Over the course of his life Selous shot 106 elephant, 177 buffalos, 31 lions, 23 white rhinoceros, 28 black rhinoceros, 67 giraffe and numerous antelope in Africa. In 1920 the Royal Hunting Reserve formed the basis of Gran Paradiso National Park by which time it held over 4,000 head of ibex. British service rifle, he killed 1600 buffalo in his most successful season, his most successful day hunting saw 36 buffalo killed. Arriving in Australia in 1923, Cole worked on various cattle stations in Queensland and the Northern Territory before taking up droving for a year, then breaking horses at Banka Banka Station. Hampton did all of his hunting mounted on horseback with a large pack of Southern American Foxhounds, with which in addition to bears and deer he killed around 16 cougars, several wolf as well as lynx and grey fox.

In 1911 Kirby became the Game Conservator for Zululand and he was instrumental in the proclamation of the uMkhuze Game Reserve before his retirement in 1929.

It does take quite a lot of effort for him to hit it hard enough for the balls to pop up - but it makes him giggle every time and we have fun chasing after them! Developing their hand-eye co-ordination as they go they can either throw the hoops over the elephant's trunk or load the balls into the trunk, push his back and watch the balls fly out of the top.

and has hosted six outdoor TV series, including Tracks Across Africa [181] and The Boddington Experience. A 'I thought the elephant will shoot the balls out but it doesn’t your child will have to press the round green thing at the top hard and fast enough to eject the ball so it can be difficult and easily loses interest as it requires a lot of effort.Whilst Commissioner of Roads in Ceylon in the 1840s, he is said to have killed between 700 and 1,200 elephants, depending on the source, in elephant control efforts. Ken Wilson, Sport hunting on six continents: hunting around the world from Alaska to Australia, from the Americas to Africa, Asia, and Europe, Kerrville TX: Sportsmen on Film Inc.