The sportsman's handbook to collecting, preserving, and setting-up trophies & specimens : together with a guide to the hunting grounds of the world / by Rowland Ward.

  • Ward, Rowland, 1848?-1912.
Date:
1911
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Licence: In copyright

Credit: The sportsman's handbook to collecting, preserving, and setting-up trophies & specimens : together with a guide to the hunting grounds of the world / by Rowland Ward. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    small-bore rifle it seems to promise considerable ad- vantages.*' In this book, however, it is not my purpose to promote discussion, but rather, in a matter of such complex consideration, to offer my own judgment, based on such experience as I possess, and backed up by the views of expert sportsmen like the two just quoted. In regard to the -303 bore, it may be noted that, according to information, the Government of India, some years ago, placed a prohibition on the importation of all rifles capable of being used with Government service ammunition of whatever bore, namely, -303, *577/*450, or *577 bores ; the prohibition also extending to ammunition for such rifles. Although there are certain exceptions' to a limited number of persons, it behoves the would-be purchaser to bear this order in mind, not only for India, but for other parts of the Empire, in case the order should be extended. From the above it will be manifest that details have much to do with success, and are, indeed, in certain cases absolutely essential. Among such details are the temper (hardness) of the bullet and the amount of the charge of powder. Experience on the field is, however, the only true guide, and experiments are only valuable according to the conditions. Although sports- men among great game may have had to use such weapons as happened to be available—in some cases weapons that would now seem quite primitive in com parison with modern ones—the testing by sportsmen of such weapons in real action is the only true one : indeed, eye and hand, as confident agents of skilful judgment, are as important factors in the result as