{"id":28142,"date":"2025-11-04T17:23:18","date_gmt":"2025-11-04T23:23:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/2025\/11\/04\/peter-capstick-arms-of-an-african-safari-legend\/"},"modified":"2025-11-04T17:23:18","modified_gmt":"2025-11-04T23:23:18","slug":"peter-capstick-arms-of-an-african-safari-legend","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/2025\/11\/04\/peter-capstick-arms-of-an-african-safari-legend\/","title":{"rendered":"Peter Capstick: Arms of an African Safari Legend"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mejs-video-container\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" allow=\"autoplay\" width=\"580\" height=\"380\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/MWl6CEpLosU?controls=1\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p>Peter Hathway Capstick is one of the top authors of the African safari. He gave up a career in Wall Street in the 1960s to pursue his calling in Africa resulting in decades of hunting and PH work across several countries. <\/p>\n<p>Well after the safari hunting&#8217;s golden age, his first book, 1977&#8217;s &#8220;Death in the Tall Grass,&#8221; breathed new life into the genre of outdoor, adventure literature and shined an unflinching light on the violence and complexities of the hunt.<\/p>\n<p>Two of Capstick&#8217;s well-documented, field-tested arms come to Rock Island Auction Company this December.<\/p>\n<p>Follow us!<br \/>Email: <a href=\"http:\/\/eepurl.com\/cg4yPb\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/eepurl.com\/cg4yPb<\/a><br \/>Facebook: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/RockIslandAuctionCompany\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/RockIslandAuctionCompany<\/a><br \/>Instagram: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/rockislandauction\/\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/rockislandauction\/<\/a><br \/>X: <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/RIAuction\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/x.com\/RIAuction<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Peter Hathway Capstick is one of the top authors of the African safari. He gave up a career in Wall Street in the 1960s to pursue his calling in Africa resulting in decades of hunting and PH work across several countries. Well after the safari hunting&#8217;s golden age, his first book, 1977&#8217;s &#8220;Death in the&hellip;&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/2025\/11\/04\/peter-capstick-arms-of-an-african-safari-legend\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">Read More &raquo;<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Peter Capstick: Arms of an African Safari Legend<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":37,"featured_media":28143,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"neve_meta_sidebar":"","neve_meta_container":"","neve_meta_enable_content_width":"","neve_meta_content_width":0,"neve_meta_title_alignment":"","neve_meta_author_avatar":"","neve_post_elements_order":"","neve_meta_disable_header":"","neve_meta_disable_footer":"","neve_meta_disable_title":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[89,19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-28142","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-content","category-video"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28142","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/37"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=28142"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28142\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/28143"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28142"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28142"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28142"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}