Big Game Shooting 



I think that if the horns seem to spread outwards 

 and then in at the tips, and at the same time the 

 head looks big, it will be found to be a much 

 bigger head than one that goes outward and then 

 straight up. That is only my idea, but I have 

 found that that rule answers to a certain extent. 



They are to be found almost anywhere where 

 there is water — on the Tana, on Laikipia, on the 

 German boundary, on any river or lake in the Rift 

 Valley ; in fact, it would be hard to mention 

 a biggish river that does not own its water-buck, 

 either one kind or the other. On a certain very- 

 big swamp and its surroundings on the German 

 boundary I found both kinds together, that is to 

 say, each in their proper herds. I cannot explain 

 that, but it makes me certain that their habits and 

 likes and dislikes are the same. At the same 

 time, I am equally sure that they were not cross- 

 breds or hybrids, as I shot both kinds there to 

 verify that and compared each with former notes. 



Twenty-eight inches for either variety ought to 

 be all right. 



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