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Originally Posted by George_De_Vries_3rd

Brad, I don’t think Jorge meant it toward Shelby that way. I don’t mean to speak for him but...

A deep breath.



It was intended at me... surprised you can't figure that out.

A narcissist like jorge can't help himself. He'd have made one hell of a Nazi...


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Well, Brad, I may certainly be obtuse at times....

You’re both welcome at my table.

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I've read that book at least once a year since I was a teenager. RIP sir, what a life well lived.

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Thanks for the 411 Brad. News like this is always sad.


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Originally Posted by Brad

The obits are one of the best features of the NYT’s... likely the best of any paper in the country.


From what I understand Harry Selby agreed to an interview for the NYT to do an obituary.
and Im sure Gail Selby and anyone associated with the Selbys are going to read a copy ,
but she and her dear departed father risk criticism and being called leftists for being involved with NYT.

Jorge really deserves sympathy for his pathetic babbling fool state of mind, its a chronic affliction that the
24CF forum has coped the effects of several times to the point of his total humiliating embarrassment, not
that that would ever stop him.. wink

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He is a wise, kind and wonderful man and father and has taught me many things in life and especially installed
into me my intense love of nature, animals and the African bush." - Gail Selby.




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I see the campfire rectal orifice has also weighed in. I'm flattered to be followed so..


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Originally Posted by Starman

Starman really deserves sympathy for his pathetic babbling fool state of mind, its a chronic affliction that the
24CF forum has coped the effects of several times to the point of his total humiliating embarrassment, not
that that would ever stop him.. wink


Fixed.


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One past great talking about another past great:

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" Bob asked," .. when you first got involved in the safari business with Percival, back in late 1945, there must have been a few old-timers
around who actually knew ‘Karamoja’ Bell.”

“Yes,” I replied. “There were some old-timers who knew Bell—mainly from the ‘Ivory Rush’ days of the Lado Enclave.” I’d become a fan of
“Karamoja” Bell after reading his two books, “Wanderings of an Elephant Hunter” and “Karamoja Safari,” and was always eager to hear
about him from anyone who’d known him.

“What did hunters think of him generally, and especially his use of smallbore rifles on elephants?” Bob asked.

By all accounts he was an outstanding hunter …fearless, with tremendous physical endurance, and it was generally agreed that
he was a really superb marksman . He also had an amazing understanding of the bone structure of an elephant’s skull, and he was able
to direct the small bullets from almost any angle to the brain hidden within that massive head. Stories of his prowess with a rifle were legion
..... I never met anyone who spoke badly of Bell.

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There you go people , Mr.Selby actually met guys that knew WDM Bell in his ivory days and they had nothing but good to report about the man,
but alas if Harry had tuned into 24CF he could have been 'educated' by 24CF fools like below...

Originally Posted by jorgeI
he lost count of how many elephants he lost when he was going after large quantities of ivory.


Of course such utter trash claim comes from a person who also sells the crazy mythical Twin Towers melting steel theory
and the Hydrostatic-Shock spin merchant nonsense...but it gets worse , he also chooses the company of celebrity hunter
Chapter 11 bankruptees that write BS glowing articles supporting their corrupt business partners - stolen valor perpetrators.




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Sad to hear of the old boy's passing. But I think there's few men who've ever come close to doing what he did, living as he lived. Godspeed, Mr Selby.


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Me and my stolen valor crowd...


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Originally Posted by Brad



Wow! That really is a great piece, particularly considering the politics of the NY Times.

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Here's one from the Washington Compost. Good article. I was surprised though to read Selby predicted (and the author agrees) the future lay in photo safaris, which has been proven wrong of course at least in the amount of dollars hunting safaris contribute to conservation as opposed to photographic ones and Botswana is suffering from that now, ever since they banned hunting on government lands.

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You with Zeke and Yeager! The miles/hours are piling up on him. Saw him last a decade ago. The years are showing. He was still quite fit then.



Originally Posted by jorgeI
Me and my stolen valor crowd...


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The guy next to me is a former Astronaut and the one next to Yeager (95 and his mind is going) is "OZ" of Benghazi fame...


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I stayed at the same hotel in Reno as Yeager. Rode the bus back and forth to the show with him. He seemed nice. His wife (?) spent more time running interference to be suspicious. Was kind of strange.

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Originally Posted by jorgeI
Me and my stolen valor crowd...



At least you didn't saw "me and my stolen virtue crowd" Ha!


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