Contents Include:

Guide to Big Game Hunting in India- 1920 Shikar Field Book

The Indian Field Shikar Book 1920

Compiled by W. S. Burke

Thacker, Spink & Co. Calcutta and Simla India

Preface - the need for a small encyclopedia about big game hunting

Guns Rifles and Ammunition

Differences in Guns

Jeffery, Henry, Westley Richards, Sherwood, Rigby, Holland , Gibbs

Boswell, Lang, Lancaster

Table of Shotgun or Smooth Bore Gauges

How to find the twist of the Rifling

Hints on Shotgun and Express Cartridges

Hints on Casting Lead Bullets and Loading Express Cartridges

Pressures and Velocities

Drachms to Grains

Selecting and Cleaning a gun.

What to do before using

Shikar Wrinkles ( problems)

What to wear on the hunt and what to pack

How many coolies to take with you

Medicine to take with you

How tall is the elephant?

Fishing accessories and necessities

Howdah Accessories

The Sportsman Library

Hog Hunting in the East

Twenty years Pig Sticking in Bengal

Rifle and Romance in the Jungle

Wild Men and Wild Beasts etc.

Restrictions on the .303 and Martini Henry Rifle

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