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Hexagonal game larder at Farnborough Hall, Warwickshire. A game larder, also sometimes known as a deer or venison larder, deer, venison or game house, game pantry or game store, is a small domestic outbuilding where the carcasses of game, including deer, game birds, hares and rabbits, are hung to mature in a cool environment.
The former game larder and dairy were built by the architect Charles Henry Howell in 1883. [10] [11] The house is surrounded by 330 hectares (820 acres) of parkland laid out in the 18th century, and pleasure grounds which were added in the 19th and 20th centuries. Some of the exotic species were planted by Robert Marnock in the 1860s. [1]
Head stalker Niall Rowantree (leftmost) taking out a guest (first from left) deer stalking on Ardnamurchan Estate in Scotland. In the United Kingdom, a gamekeeper (often abbreviated to keeper) is a person who manages an area of countryside (e.g., areas of woodland, moorland, waterway or farmland) to make sure that there is enough game for hunting, or fish for fishing, and acts as guide to ...
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In 1980, as wargame publishers turned to computer-based games, Dunnigan wrote The Complete Wargames Handbook, a book about wargaming, including information about how to play, design, and find copies of wargames. [2] The book is divided into nine chapters, preceded by an introduction and followed by appendices and a bibliography. The chapters cover:
Hunting game would be encouraged first by the use of meat, then a lure, and eventually live prey. Such prey included herons , sometime with their legs broken to facilitate the kill. Hawks would be housed in mews , a special edifice found in most large medieval households, mostly a certain distance from the main domicile, so that the hawks would ...
This list of big-game hunters includes sportsmen and sportswomen who gained fame largely or solely because of their big-game hunting exploits. The members of this list either hunted big game for sport, to advance the science of their day, or as professional hunters. It includes brief biographical details focusing on the type of game hunted ...
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