Peter Capstick had a promising future on Wall Street in the 1960s But business wasn’t his passion. Africa was, and more specifically, hunting in Africa.
Capstick became a professional hunter, leading safaris and writing books and articles about hunting.
Often drawing comparisons to Ernest Hemingway, Cap[stick built a reputation as a hunter and guide.
And hunters today will recognize his name from the .470 Capstick rifle cartridge.
I met him in 1987 while he was on tour for his book Peter Capstick’s Africa.
So here now, from 1987, Peter Capstick.
Peter Capstick died in South Africa in1996. He was 56.