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Famous big-game hunters

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  • Dr. Saxton Temple Pope, creator of the modern Bow & Arrow (1875 - 1926)
    WIKIPEDIA==Saxton Temple Pope (September 4, 1875 – August 8, 1926) was an American doctor, teacher, author and outdoorsman. He is most famous as the father of modern bow hunting, and for his close rela...
  • Herbert Edwin Bradley (1871 - 1961)
    Herbert Edwin Bradley (December 20, 1871 – April 22, 1961) was a Canadian-born American lawyer, real estate investor, big-game hunter and zoo director. Born to a farmer in Brooklin, Ontario, Bradley ...
  • William Negley (1914 - 2006)
    William died November 7, 2006 in San Antonio, Texas. He was born in San Antonio on March 28, 1914 to Laura Burleson Negley and Richard Van Wyck Negley. He attended primary school in San Antonio and w...
  • Roualeyn George Gordon-Cumming (1820 - 1866)
    Roualeyn George Gordon-Cumming (March 15, 1820 – March 24, 1866) was a Scottish traveller and sportsman, known as the "lion hunter". He was the second son of Sir William Gordon Gordon-Cumming, 2nd Ba...
  • Frank Buck (1884 - 1950)
    Frank Howard Buck (March 17, 1884 – March 25, 1950) was an American hunter, animal collector, and author, as well as a film actor, director, and producer. Beginning in the 1910s he made many expediti...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Big-game_hunting

Big-game hunting is the hunting of large game, almost always large terrestrial mammals, for meat, other animal by-products (such as horn or bone), trophy or sport. The term is historically associated with the hunting of Africa's "Big Five" game (lion, African elephant, Cape buffalo, leopard and rhinoceros), and with tigers and rhinoceroses on the Indian subcontinent. The numbers of white rhinoceros are considered too low to support hunting (a permit for hunting a black rhinoceros was issued in Namibia in 2014), but the other four species are still hunted in Africa, as well as other species such as kudu, antelope, and hartebeest. Moose, elk, bear, mountain lion, caribou, bison and deer are the largest game hunted in North America, which is where most Big-game hunting is conducted today.

Big-game hunting is conducted in Africa, North America, South America, Europe, Asia and Australia. In Africa, lion, Cape buffalo, elephant, giraffe and other large game animals are hunted. In North America, animals such as bear, wolf, caribou, moose, elk, boar, sheep and bison are hunted. In South America, deer and other species are hunted. In Europe, sheep, boar, goats, elk, deer, and other species are hunted. In Asia, several species of deer, bear, sheep and other species are hunted. In Australia, several species of deer and wild boar are hunted.

List of big game hunters

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Big-game_hunting#Famous_big-game_hunters