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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