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Walter D.M. Bell has become a legend among elephant hunters due to his great success in the ivory trade during the golden age of hunting in East Africa. He is known as "Karamojo" Bell due to his numerous safaris through this remote wilderness area in North Eastern Uganda. He is famous for perfecting the brain shot on elephants, dissecting their skulls and making a careful study of the anatomy of the skull, so he could predict paths of bullet travel from a shot at any angle in order to reach the brain. Using mostly 6.5mm and 7mm caliber rifles, he was an advocate of shot placement over big bore power for killing efficiently.
Modern writers on the internet and in magazine articles have tended to refer to him and his tally of elephants in this vein, "He shot all of his several hundred elephants with a 7x57mm rifle" or words to that effect. In fact, Walter Bell killed 1,011 elephants in the course of his career.
W.D.M. Bell and His Elephants
Modern writers on the internet and in magazine articles have tended to refer to him and his tally of elephants in this vein, "He shot all of his several hundred elephants with a 7x57mm rifle" or words to that effect. In fact, Walter Bell killed 1,011 elephants in the course of his career.
W.D.M. Bell and His Elephants