Days And Nights With Indian Big Game

Published by Macmillan and Co, 1923 . viii 212 pages, illustrations from photographs and drawings, very good original blue cloth with gilt vignette to upper board of natives and trophy head, slight wear head and tail of spine o/w vg. An excellent work with the emphasis on tiger shooting, he also hunts buffalo, bear, elephant, panther etc. Czech 223. 

Wardrop started his Indian hunting career in the 1890’s. Fairly early on he had a close encounter with a leopard and was fortunate not to have been more severely injured. He was on a three month shooting excursion with a party of fellow officers, a well organised foray into remote, game-rich country.

Countless experiences like these led Wardrop to conclude on what the ideal armoury for an Indian hunter should be. His initial favouritism for outsize express rifles gave way as he appreciated the advantages of the new high velocity, nitro express cartridges. “I have shot with a Tolley D.B..470 and a .318 Westley Richards and I ask for nothing better”, although both calibres “..suffer from the curse of the H.V. rifle in that they generally give but little blood in the case of a follow up”.