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Askins may have been responsible for the first gaur (pronounced "goor" like "spoor" not "gower") taken with the .458 WinMag.
But it was by loaning his .458 WinMag to a USA General hunting buddy, Gen. Bergquist, his commander in Vietnam.
As with Richard C. Heck and Doc Stacy and the rhino in 1956 Kenya,
so it was with Col. Askins and "The General" and the gaur in 1956 Vietnam.
The gaur was over 3000 pounds, sort of like a bison from India, it has been said, largest of the bovids.
From UNREPENTANT SINNER THE AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF COLONEL CHARLES ASKINS:

















George Parker was a WWII combat buddy of Col. Askins. Here in 1956, he had just returned from a Safari in
Kenya with Tony Dyer's outfit, no doubt encouraging Askins to go there too,
which he began planning for the 1958 safari with Allen Pope.
Parker got the month-long, elephant-back shikar treatment while visiting Askins and Ngo Van Chi.
Askins came and went on that for 5 or 6 days at a time, whenever he could tear himself away from work.