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He is noted for using smaller calibre bullets [17] [18] rather than the heavy recoiling, larger calibre bullets that were popular with other big game hunters. [19] Like many other professional elephant hunters of the time, he started hunting elephants with a sporting .303 Lee Enfield rifle, taking 63 elephant heads on his first safari.
Arriving in Africa in 1896, and after hunting man-eating lions for the Uganda Railway and then serving in the Boer War, from 1902 Bell hunted elephant in Kenya, Uganda, Abyssinia, Sudan, the Lado Enclave (one of the few to do so there legally), French Ivory Coast, Liberia, French Congo, and the Belgian Congo. During his hunting career, Bell ...
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The Selous Game Reserve in southeastern Tanzania is a hunting reserve named in his honor. Established in 1922, it covers an area of 54,600 km 2 (21,100 sq mi) along the rivers Kilombero, Ruaha, and Rufiji. The area first became a hunting reserve in 1905, although it is rarely visited by humans due to the significant presence of the Tsetse fly.
Date/Time Thumbnail Dimensions User Comment; current: 10:02, 25 March 2010: 2,080 × 1,368 (296 KB): Kentuckyusa2010 {{Information |Description={{en|1=PINK ELEPHANT STATUE IN FRONT OF STORE IN TINY TOWN-KY ( GUTHRIE-KY ) IN TODD COUNTY-KENTUCKY.
The initial press run was 15,000 copies, with the subscription price set at 50 cents a year. The first issue featured a hunting dog on the cover and a drawing of pioneer Daniel Boone in the upper left hand corner. In 1947, Happy Hunting Ground absorbed a magazine published by The League of Kentucky Sportsmen (Kentucky's oldest conservation group).
Articles relating to elephant hunting, The poaching of elephants for their ivory, meat and hides has been one of the major threats to their existence. Historically, numerous cultures made ornaments and other works of art from elephant ivory, and its use was comparable to that of gold.