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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    the powder that utilises the best-made missile, or the most accurate rifle. The man who can, without fail, do all that is prescribed in a gun-maker’s shooting- yard, might find his calculations disturbed by the swift rush of an elephant, the deadly spring of a tiger, or the charge of a wounded buffalo. HEAD OF A LION, SHOWING THE SPOT FOll THE BRAIN-SHOT. VITAL SHOTS In fact, the sooner the sportsman realises that his operations with great game cannot be reduced to the regularity of a game of chess, the better will he be able to guard his own safety and succeed in whatever field he may be engaged. Nothing, indeed, in the way