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Guide Yamamoto glasses plain and slopes for sheep as
Mahoney waits. Light weight rifles are best for Hawaii.
rough going. I saw .257 Roberts, .257 Weatherby Magnum,
.243 Winchester, and .244 Remington rifles, plus a lot of
Savage Model 99 .250-3000s, and .30 calibers in every size
and shape from .30-30 to .30-06 and .300 Magnum. The
tiny .22 high-velocity calibers are barred, as are the old
timers like the .25-20, .32-20, .38-40, and .44-40; but aside
from those, practically anything producing muzzle energy
of over 1200 foot pounds is usable. And as for shotguns,
any 12, 16, or 20 bore piece will get you any flying game
on the islands-California and Japanese quail, lace-necked
and barred dove, chukar, pigeons, all in numbers seldom
seen elsewhere.
My most recent Hawaiian expedition began when my
hunting partner and I boarded a Transocean Airlines
Excited, Mahoney and Yama run up to
sheep dropped by actor with one shot.
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Globemaster at Burbank, California. My companion was
an old friend-one-time cowboy, former ace Hollywood
stuntman turned actor, Jock Mahoney, presently gaining
fame as television's "Yancy Derringer." Jock and I had
been talking for months, ever since my 1958 trip when,
in less than three hours, near the great Parker Ranch,
another hunter and I bagged four whopping boars, all
cleanly tumbled at close range. My shooting piece was, and
is, a .300 Savage. My 1958 hunting partner carried another
real cracker-jack for Hawaii, a Model 725 Remington,
caliber .270, light in weight, convenient, powerful, and
rugged as a packmule.
When we checked off the big Transocean bird at the
Honolulu airport, a heavy overcast shed a delightfully cool
mist on us as Dick Woodworth, Chief of the Hawaii Game
Department, and his handsome family greeted us with
warm alohas and beautiful leis. I couldn't help thinking,
as we gathered our guns and luggage. "Where else on
earth can a hunte.r find a more charming reception?"
Woodworth gave us the choice of remaining in Honolulu
for a spell or catching a soon-departing Aloha Airline
flight for the outer island of Hawaii where arrangements
had been made for us to hunt with Slim Holt of Hilo.
Since Mahoney and I were both anxious to get into the
eld, we checked onto the Aloha flight and in a bit over
an hour the DC 3 was lowering flaps for a landing at
Hilo, Hawaii, "the orchid capital of the world."
Big Slim Holt, a rugged 6'4" of Hawaiian-French­
Tahitian and one of the hunting and game authorities in
Hawaii, was on hand to greet us at the airport. I had made
arrangements with Slim and his Japanese cohort, Yukichi
Yamamoto, to act as our guides, since both men are
equipped with four-wheel drive Jeeps and are more at
home on the lava slopes of Mauna Kea than in their homes
in Hilo. Yama and Slim had the Jeeps packed and ready
to go, so after a short stop in town for our hunting licenses
and a brief stop to weL our whistles at the lovely Holt home
overlooking Hilo, we roared off (Continued on page 52)
Mahoney leans into pack toting game back to camp. Terrain of volcanos
is often too rough for horse or wheels, takes footwork to get hunting.
GUNS
NOVEMBER 1959