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Vital Shots Hippo
by Captain Chauncey Hugh Stigand (1877 - 1919)



As this animal is generally found in water, shots at the head are almost the invariable rule. A hippo's brain is very small, and we have endeavoured to show a plain sketch ...

Vital Shots Rhino
by Captain Chauncey Hugh Stigand (1877 - 1919)



Many of our remarks on the elephant, as regards vital shots, are applicable to this animal, with the addition, perhaps, of a shot in the centre ...

Vital Shots Elephant
by Captain Chauncey Hugh Stigand (1877 - 1919)



A few years ago a head shot was seldom tried at these animals, as big bore black powder rifles and guns often lacked the necessary penetration to pierce the heavy bone in an elephant's head, but since the introduction ...

Stalking & Shooting
by Captain Chauncey Hugh Stigand (1877 - 1919)



It is most important, in order to get close to game, that the sportsman be suitably dressed himself, and see that his men do not wear white, red, or other unsuitable
colours, as they love to do.
As to what colours are suitable we can learn much from animals. Often what would at first sight appear startling is in reality adapted to its surroundings. For instance, zebra's stripes for thickly-grassed country, lion a good all-round colour, especially adapted to deserts ...

How To Find Game
by Captain Chauncey Hugh Stigand (1877 - 1919)



An early start from camp is advisable, and if the grazing grounds are far it may be necessary to start before dawn. For sable, roan, eland, hartebeest, waterbuck, warthog, &c, the dambos should be skirted before the game has left for the thick bush.
A dambo is an open stretch of ground with bush on either side. They take the drainage of the forest land, and during the rains are practically marshes, while during the dry weather they are, till fired, covered with tall, rank, thick grass. ...

How To Look For Spoor
by Captain Chauncey Hugh Stigand (1877 - 1919)


Zebra Hoof

In the last chapter we have suggested that the true hunter will endeavour to learn as much as possible of woodcraft, and should have the ability to do his own tracking when need be.
We will now endeavour to show how he should begin to do this. It is as impossible for him to learn how to track from a book as it is to read a book on cricket and be able to play immediately. For both he needs years of practical experience, but we will attempt ...

Frederick Courteney Selous
British naturalist, explorer, author, hunter and soldier
(1851 - 1917)


Frederick Courteney Selous, 1890, a gentleman's portrait on African safari, with two shot Kori Bustards and his Farquharson rifle.

Frederick Courteney Selous (31 December 1851 - 4 January 1917) was a British explorer, officer, hunter, and conservationist, famous for his exploits in south and east ...

Do You Need Rabies Vaccination When Going To Africa?

It's really a judgement call. I would say that most hunters visiting Africa do not get a rabies vaccination. I personally never have gotten a rabies vaccination and have spent many years of my life in Africa. However I've had a couple of friends bitten by dogs, by the way neither of which were stray dogs, who have had to go through, as a measure of precaution, the painful series of injections of the rabies immunoglobin which can be ...

Captain Chauncey Hugh Stigand
(1877 - 1919)


Captain Chauncey Hugh Stigand (1877 - 1919) ...

Managing the Conflicts Between People and Lion
Introduction by Philippe Chardonnet



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Get Closer To Take That Shot!


Buffalo herd in Central African Republic

I have guided ...