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  • Cambridge University Press (2020). "dog". Cambridge Dictionary. Cambridge University Press. Retrieved 21 January 2020.
  • John Murray Learning (2020). "dog". Chambers Dictionary. Hodder & Stoughton Ltd. Retrieved 21 January 2020.
  • HarperCollins (2020). "dog". Collins Dictionary. HarperCollins Publishers L.L.C. Retrieved 21 January 2020.
  • Oxford University Press (2019). "dog". Oxford Dictionary. Lexico.com. Retrieved 21 January 2020.
  • Merriam-Webster (2020). "dog". Merriam-Webster. Merriam-Webster, Inc. Retrieved 21 January 2020.

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Infobox dog breed[edit]

Bloodhound
Other namesChien de St Hubert
St Hubert Hound
OriginBelgium &
United Kingdom
Traits
Height Males 64–72 cm (25–28 in)
Females 58–66 cm (23–26 in)
Weight Males 46–54 kg (101–119 lb)
Females 40–48 kg (88–106 lb)
Coat Short
Colour Black and tan, liver and tan or red
Life span ≈ 12 yrs
Kennel club standards
SRSH-KMSH standard
KC standard
Fédération Cynologique Internationale standard
Dog (domestic dog)
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Frequently used sources[edit]

* {{cite book |last=Alderton |first=David |author-link=David Alderton |date=1987 |title=The dog: the most complete, illustrated, practical guide to dogs and their world |url= |location=London |publisher=New Burlington Books |page=|isbn=0-948872-13-6}}

* {{cite book |last=Alderton |first=David |author-link=David Alderton |date=2000 |title=Hounds of the world |url= |location=Shrewsbury |publisher=Swan Hill Press |isbn=1-85310-912-6}}

* {{cite book |last=Alderton |first=David |author-link=David Alderton |date=2008 |title=The encyclopedia of dogs |url= |location=Bath |publisher=Parragon Books Ltd |page=|isbn=978-1-4454-0853-8}}

* {{cite book |last1=Coppinger |first1=Raymond |author-link1=Raymond Coppinger |last2=Coppinger |first2=Lorna |date=2001 |title=Dogs: a startling new understanding of canine origin, behavior & evolution |location=New York |publisher=Scribner |page= |isbn=0-684-85530-5 }}

* {{cite book |last=Fogle |first=Bruce |author-link=Bruce Fogle|date=2009 |title=The encyclopedia of the dog |url= |location=New York |publisher=DK Publishing |page= |isbn=978-0-7566-6004-8 }}

* {{cite book |last=Hancock|first=David |date=2014 |title=Dogs of the shepherds: a review of the pastoral breeds |location=Ramsbury, Wiltshire |publisher=The Crowood Press Ltd |isbn=978-1-84797-808-0 }}

* {{cite book |last=Hancock |first=David |date=2013 |title=Gundogs: their past, their performance and their prospects |location=Ramsbury, Marlborough |publisher=The Crowood Press Ltd |isbn=978-1-84797-492-1 }}

* {{cite book |last=Hancock |first=David |date=2014 |title=Hounds: hunting by scent |location=Ramsbury, Marlborough |publisher=The Crowood Press Ltd |isbn=978-1-84797-601-7 }}

* {{cite book |last=Hancock |first=David |date=1984 |title=Old working dogs |url= |location=Botley, Oxfordshire |publisher=Shire Publications Ltd |isbn=0852636784 }}

* {{cite book |last=Hancock |first=David |date=2012 |title=Sighthounds: their form, their function and their future |location=Ramsbury, Marlborough |publisher=The Crowood Press Ltd |isbn=978-1-84797-392-4 }}

* {{cite book |last=Hancock |first=David |date=2011 |title=Sporting terriers: their form, their function and their future |location=Ramsbury, Marlborough |publisher=The Crowood Press Ltd |isbn=978-1-84797-303-0 }}

* {{cite book |last=Hancock |first=David |author-link=|date=2001 |title=The mastiffs: the big game hunters, their history, development & future |url= |location=Ducklington, Oxon |publisher=Charwynne Dog Features |page= |isbn=9780951780114 }}

* {{cite book |last1=Jones|first1=Arthur F. |last2=Hamilton |first2=Ferelith |date=1971 |title=The world encyclopedia of dogs |location=New York |publisher=Galahad Books |page= |isbn=0-88365-302-8 }}

* {{cite book |last=Morris |first=Desmond |author-link=Desmond Morris |date=2001 |title=Dogs: the ultimate dictionary of over 1,000 dog breeds |url= |location=North Pomfret, VT|publisher=Trafalgar Square Publishing |page= |isbn=1-57076-219-8}}

* {{cite book |last=Soman |first= W.V. |date=1962 |title= The Indian Dog |url=http://indog.co.in/the-indian-dog-by-w-v-soman/ |location= Mumbai |publisher= Popular Prakashan }}

* {{cite book |last1=Wilcox |first1=Bonnie |last2=Walkowicz |first2=Chris |date=1995 |title=Atlas of dog breeds of the world |location=Neptune City, N.J. |publisher=TFH Publications |page= |isbn=}}

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AFVs[edit]

Frequently used sources[edit]

* {{cite book |last=Bartholomew |first=E. |year=1988 |title=Early armoured cars |location=Aylesbury |publisher=Shire Publications Ltd |pages= |isbn=0-85263-908-2}}

* {{cite book |last=Bishop |first=Chris |title=The illustrated encyclopedia of weapons of World War I |location=London |publisher=Amber Books |year=2014 |page= |isbn=978-1-78274-141-1}}

* {{cite book |last=Fletcher |first=David |author-link=David Fletcher (military historian) | year=1987 |title=War cars: British armoured cars in the First World War |location=London |publisher=Her Majesty’s Stationary Office |pages= |isbn=0-85263-908-2}}

* {{cite book |last1=Forty |first1=George |last2=Livesey |first2=Jack |title=The World Encyclopedia of Tanks and Armoured Fighting Vehicles|location=London |publisher=Anness Publishing Ltd |year=2006 |page= |isbn=978-0754833512}}

* {{cite book |last=Foss |first=Christopher F. |year=2002  |title=The encyclopedia of tanks & armoured fighting vehicles |location=London |publisher=Amber Books |page= |isbn=978-1905704-44-6 }}

* {{cite book |last=White |first=Brian Terrance |title=British tanks and fighting vehicles 1914–1945 |publisher=Ian Allen Ltd |year=1970 |location=Shepperton, Surry |page= |isbn=}}

* {{cite book |last=White |first=Brian Terance |date=1970 |title=Tanks and other armoured fighting vehicles: 1900-1918 |location=London |publisher=Blandford Press Ltd |pages= |isbn=0713707003 }}

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AEC Matador

Beagling#Hunting with Harriers - create separate page

Howdah pistol

Ordnance ML 4.2 inch Mortar - clean up

Pointing breed - better clarification of HPRs

Joseph Lang - ref, Aitkin Grant & Lang, History, bestguns.eu, History English shotguns, ref, thefield.co.uk British gunmakers, Wieland, Walter, John, A concise history of guns and gunmakers: inventors, patentees, brand names and trademarks

Big game hunters[edit]

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Africa:

  • John Boyes (1873–1951) was born in Yorkshire and he died in Nairobi after a lifetime of trading schemes and adventure which included ivory hunting in the Lado Enclave. John Boyes also led a big game hunt for William Northrup McMillan while he and his family were exploring the Blue Nile with B H Jessen.
John Boyes Books
  • John Francois Burger (1882–1984) was born in South Africa, moved to Rhodesia where he hunted with notable hunters like Selous and Westhuizen. During WWI he joined the military and was assigned to supply meat for the troops - the 'Burger buffalo campaign'. He then spent 15 years in the Congo and a further 15 years in Tanganyika in the mining business but always still hunting. He was a 'professional' hunter in that he was employed by various companies to supply meat for the workers of the railroads before WW II and has had probably more experience shooting African buffalo than any other person.
John F Burger Books
  • William Sydney Chadwick (b.1882) was born in England and emigrated to South Africa in the 1920s. He was a transport rider in Rhodesia, one time member of the Bechuanaland Protectorate Police and professional hunter in that he earned a living selling the ivory and lions skins from his trophies.
W S Chadwick Books
  • Roger James Allen Courtney MC (1902–1949) was a bank clerk in Leeds, England before he became a professional white hunter and gold prospector in East Africa. He was also a sergeant in the Palestinian Police Force and was influential in the establishment of the Special Boat Service which saw action in World War II.
Roger Courtney Books
  • Richard John "RJ" Cuninghame (1871–1925) was a Scottish born
Stephanie Clark, "The great game hunter who saved Roosevelt’s life", The Daily Telegraph, 21 October 2012, retrieved from telegraph.co.uk 15 October 2017.
  • Captain Francis Arthur Dickinson (1874–1915) was a Brish army officer who died in World War I. He was a Fellow of the Royal Geographical Society and a first class big game hunter. After the Boer War, he was selected as Winston Churchill's escort when he went to British East Africa as Under-Secretary of State for the Colonies.
  • Sydney Downey
  • Major William Robert Foran (1881–1968) was one of the 6 original European officers of the British East Africa Police. His passion was big game hunting and he was one of the foremost ivory hunters in East Africa at the time.
Robert Foran Books
  • Father and son Dimitrie (1839–1923) and Nicolae Ghica (1875–1921) were Romanian noblemen, explorers, adventurers and sportsmen.
  • Parker Gillmore was a Scottish world traveller, big game hunter and later a soldier, who arrived in South Africa in 1875. He served as a captain in the British Army during the Crimean War and had wide shooting experience in North America, India, China and Africa. He was also prolific author, writing about his journeys that had taken him to dangerous parts of North America and Africa. On occasion, Parker Gillmore used the pen-name 'Ubique'.
Parker Gillmore Books
  • Donald Ker was a
  • Alexander Lake (1893–1961) was born in Chicago, Illinois and moved to South Africa with his family in 1908. Due to his great marksmanship skills developed at school in a shooting team, he was hired as a meat hunter by the trader Nicobar Jones. This job took him to Portugese East Africa, Tanganyika, Kenya, Uganda, Northern Rhodesia and German Southwest Africa. Within a couple of years he was a fully-fledged and licensed white hunter.
Alexander Lake Books
  • Denis David Lyell (1871–1946) was born in Calcutta into a Scottish family from Dundee. In 1893, Lyell went to Ceylon and then India as a tea planter. By 1899, aged 28, he went to South Africa and by 1913, he settled in Nyasaland. After World war I, he came back to Scotland and married Marion Brown. He was among the last big game hunters who hunted elephants for profit. From 1900 he was immersed in the hunting world and became a renowned author.
Denis D Lyell Books
  • Sir Clive Phillipps-Wolley (1853–1918) was born Edward Clive Oldnall Long Phillips in England. He was a writer, big game hunter and non-practising lawyer who settled in British Columbia in 1884. Phillipps-Wolley's reputation as a big game hunter earned him the editorship of the 1894 Badminton Library volumes, 'Big Game Shooting', for which he was credited as author and for which he earned praise from American president Theodore Roosevelt. The first volume concerns hunting in South Africa; the second volume concerns hunting in the Caucasus, Scandinavia, India and North America.
Clive Phillipps-Wolley Books

Asia:

  • The Honorable James William Best (1882–1960) was a British forestry officer in central India.
James William Best Books
  • Captain John Henry Brandt (1927–2013) was a prolific big game hunter and author. Born in Europe and educated in the US, he spent 11 years living in Malaysia, lived with pygmies in Africa and has hunted on every continent. John Brandt has taken 5 tigers, along with lions, leopards, elephants, rhinos and pretty much every African and Asian game animal.
John H Brandt Books
  • General Douglas Hamilton (1818–1892)
  • Sir Henry Ramsay (1816–1893) British India soldier-administrator and sportsman. Ramsay was said to shot several hundred tigers, predominantly mounted in a howdah.
  • Captain Layard said to have killed over 1,000 elephants in Ceylon in the 1840s in elephant control efforts.
  • Lieutenant Colonel Charles Hugh Stockley (1882–1955) was a British army officer and expert big game hunter and photographer.
Charles Hugh Stockley Books

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.500/450 No 1 Black Powder Express (2¾-inch) - Holts IWM

20 bore

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W. D. M. Bell - fix name & correct inaccuracies

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7.45 cubic centimetres (115.0 gr H2O)

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Bore size conversation chart[edit]

The gauge of a gun is the measurement of the bore in terms of the number of lead balls, of the same diameter as the bore, that would weigh one pound.

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