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Walter Dalrymple Maitland Bell (8 September 1880 – 30 June 1954), known as Karamojo Bell after the Karamoja sub-region in Uganda, which he travelled extensively, was a Scottish adventurer, big game hunter in East Africa, [3] soldier, decorated fighter pilot, sailor, writer, and painter.
Bell published three books on his time in Africa, The Wanderings of An Elephant Hunter in 1923 and Karamojo Safari in 1949, and Bell of Africa which was published posthumously. He also wrote a number of magazine articles for Country Life and American Rifleman. Bell is considered one of the most successful of Africa's professional elephant hunters.
Walter Dalrymple Maitland "Karamojo" Bell, who shot 1,011 elephants [3] in the period 1895–1930, had a very high regard for the 6.5mm Mannlicher–Schoenauer, using it for approximately 300 of these kills. [4] Daniel Fraser of Edinburgh, Scotland built him a special, lightweight rifle in that calibre.
Unlike "Karamojo" Bell, Sutherland preferred a heavy calibre rifle for elephant and rhinoceros hunting, stating "I find the most effective to be the double .577 with a 750 grain bullet and a charge of axite powder equivalent to a hundred grains of cordite."
Also, in Bell of Africa, Bell writes of finishing with his elephant hunting after "acheiveing his desired aim of 1000." The number killed with the Mauser was 800. (Karamojo Safari) (One of the main sources for a much higher figure that is often quoted comes from a Chuck Hawks Guns and Shooting online article by James Passmore which has been ...
After the Boer War, Pearson remained in Africa, sailing to Kenya he arrived in Mombasa in 1903. A short time later he decided to hunt elephant professionally, travelling to Uganda he initially hunted in the Masindi district but the found the newly imposed game laws limiting hunters to three elephant a year too restricting to make a living.
John Rigby & Company (or John Rigby & Co. (Gunmakers) Ltd) is a gunmaking firm founded by John Rigby in 1775 in Dublin. The company was established by the first John Rigby in Dublin, Ireland, apparently in 1775; his grandson, also John, opened a London branch in 1865; and Dublin operations had ceased by February 1897.
In May 2017, he published his first book, The Awkward Thoughts of W. Kamau Bell: Tales of a 6'4, African American, Heterosexual, Cisgender, Left-Leaning, Asthmatic, Black and Proud Blerd, Mama's Boy, Dad, and Stand-Up Comedian. [37] The book is a humorous autobiography interspersed with essays about politics and popular culture.