Peter Hathaway Capstick > Quotes

“In fifteen minutes most of the camp was there, including the Texan who, Lord save his soul forever, had brought along a bottle of bonded Kentucky Drain Opener.”
― Peter Hathaway Capstick, Death in the Long Grass: A Big Game Hunter's Adventures in the African Bush

“After all, if the lion doesn’t eat you personally, you won’t have to wait long until the vultures, ants, hyenas, and jackals do. Africa is astoundingly efficient in the disposal of protein.”
― Peter Hathaway Capstick, Death in the Long Grass: A Big Game Hunter's Adventures in the African Bush

“Elmer dedicated a book to Mike. Elmer, a”
― Peter Hathaway Capstick, Peter Capstick's Africa: A Return to the Long Grass

“Thin-Red-Line-of-Empiah”
― Peter Hathaway Capstick, Death in the Long Grass: A Big Game Hunter's Adventures in the African Bush

“The young men thought it was too hot to sleep inside their kaia, Bwana,” he replied. “Also,” he said, shuffling the dirt with a big toe, “they were a little bit drunk.” He shrugged with typical African fatalism. Most Africans believe it can never happen to them, something like the attitude of front-line troops. The millet and sorghum”
― Peter Hathaway Capstick, Death in the Long Grass: A Big Game Hunter's Adventures in the African Bush

“record—jacked one up the chamber, and continued to belt the lion as frequently as I could.”
― Peter Hathaway Capstick, Peter Capstick's Africa: A Return to the Long Grass

“country, although hitherto difficult to reach. But Bell had solved the problem by ordering a thirty-five-foot-long steam launch from England, which was assembled in sections of about 150 pounds each. It was the perfect boat for hunting the many islands in the Ubangi, as it burned abundant wood for fuel and had a very shallow draught.”
― Peter Hathaway Capstick, Death in the Silent Places

“460 Weatherby Magnum, the most powerful shoulder-fired commercial sporting rifle in the world, with over 8,000 foot-pounds of muzzle energy,”
― Peter Hathaway Capstick, Death in the Long Grass: A Big Game Hunter's Adventures in the African Bush

“Clearly, the buffalo had not read the energy charts for the .460 and was blissfully ignorant that he should have collapsed like a dynamited bridge from the “shock” alone.”
― Peter Hathaway Capstick, Death in the Long Grass: A Big Game Hunter's Adventures in the African Bush

“I looked out and saw the world’s biggest lion walking past my cot, growling in that low, gutteral tone they apparently use to scare things. It worked in my case. Those lions can’t do that for pleasure, because it has to scare them, too.”
― Peter Hathaway Capstick, Death in the Long Grass: A Big Game Hunter's Adventures in the African Bush