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 * Posavac Hound
 * Alpine Dachsbracke
 * Styrian Coarse-haired Hound
 * Barak hound
 * Spanish dogo
 * Hierran Wolfdog
 * Faroese Sheepdog
 * Levriero Italiano
 * Levriero Sardo
 * Cane di Oropa
 * Cane Lupino del Gigante
 * Pastore della Lessinia e del Lagorai
 * Warren hound
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 * BowLingual
 * Miniature Fox Terrier
 * Kai Ken
 * Thai Bangkaew Dog
 * American Dog Breeders Association
 * National Greyhound Association
 * Cretan Hound
 * Ryukyu Inu
 * Griffon (dog type)
 * Jämthund
 * Markiesje
 * Smithfield (dog)

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 * Draft:List of utility vehicles of the United States Armed Forces

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 * Template:Personal defense weapons (17 Jul 18) - remove pistols and some cartridges

Article space
AEC Matador
 * Ref - Chris Bishop (Ed), The Encyclopedia of Weapons of World War II, Metrobooks, New York, 1998, ISBN 1-58663-762-2.
 * Imperial War Museums, "AEC Matador Gun Tractor 4x4", www.iwm.org.uk, retrieved 5 September 2017.
 * Imperial War Museums, "AEC 0854 Matador Fuel Bowser 6x6", www.iwm.org.uk, retrieved 5 September 2017.
 * Military Factory, "AEC Matador Multi-Role Military Truck / Gun Tractor", www.militaryfactory.com, retrieved 5 September 2017.
 * Milweb, "The AEC Matador Gun Tractor", www.milweb.net, retrieved 5 September 2017.
 * Pat Ware, The Complete Dictionary of Military Vehicles, Anness Publishing Ltd, Wigston, 2012, ISBN

Beagling - create separate page
 * H.A. Bryden, Hare-hunting and harriers: With notices of beagles and basset hounds, Grant Richards, London, 1903.
 * Will Cursham, "Hunting in Ireland: touring three Irish packs", thefield.co.uk, retrieved 18 August 2017.
 * Nicholas Goddard and John Martin, "Hare hunting", Encyclopedia of traditional British rural sports, Tony Collins, John Martin and Wray Vamplew (eds), Routledge, Abingdon, 2005, ISBN 0-415-35224-X.
 * Lucy Higginson, "Beagles about", The Telegraph, 11 November 2000.
 * Shooting Times, "Hunting the hare in France", shootinguk.co.uk retrieved 18 August 2017.
 * Carl Smith, Basset hounds and beagles: With descriptive and historical sketches on each breed, their breeding, and use as a sporting dog, Read Books, Alcester, 2006, ISBN 978-1-84664-060-5.
 * The New Zealand Hunts' Association Inc., "The history of hunting in New Zealand", huntingwithhounds.co.nz, retrieved 18 August 2017.

Howdah pistol
 * Ref - Howard L. Blackmore, Hunting weapons from the Middle Ages to the Twentieth Century, Dover Publications, New York, 1971.
 * Larry Blunk, "The Howdah Pistol – Built for the Final Charge", theexplora.com, retrieved 3 March 2017.
 * Ref - Stephan Bull, Encyclopaedia of military technology and innovation, Greenwood Press, Westport, 2004, ISBN 1-57356-577-1.
 * Ref - Syed Ramsey, Tools of War: History of weapons in early modern times, VIJ Books, 2016, ISBN 9789386019820.
 * Ref - Stan Skinner, Shooter's Bible guide to extreme iron, Skyhorse Publishing, New York, 2014, ISBN 979-1-62636-014-3.

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

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 * Major G.H. Anderson
 * John Faunthorpe
 * William Finaughty
 * Henry Hartley
 * Henry Astbury Leveson
 * William Cotton Oswell
 * Pete Pearson

Add to list:
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


 * Harry Selby
 * Colonel James Stevenson-Hamilton (1867–1957) was a Scottish soldier, explorer and South African game warden.
 * Lieutenant-Colonel John Henry Patterson (1867–1947), killed the Tsavo Man-Eaters
 * Count Sámuel Teleki de Szék (1845–1916) the Hungarian explorer, shot 79 buffaloes between April 1887 and May 1888 during his expedition to the north of Kenya that led to the discovery of Lake Turkana.

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

Europe:
 * John George of Brandenburg (1525–1598) was the Margrave of Brandenburg from 1571 to 1598.
 * Henry Rudi (1889–1970) was a Norwegian Arctic hunter.
 * August von Spiess (1864–1953)

North America:
 * John Capen "Grizzly" Adams (1812–1860)
 * Robert Eager Bobo (c.1847–1902)
 * Craig Boddington (b.1953)
 * David "Davy" Crockett (1786–1836)
 * Daniel Boone (1734–1820)
 * Seth Kinman (1815–1888)
 * Benjamin Vernon "Ol' Lilly" Lilly (1856–1936) was a big game hunter, houndsman and mountain man of the late American Old West.
 * Colonel William D. Pickett (1827–1917)
 * Wilburn Waters (1812–1879)
 * William Henry Wright (1856–1934)

Interesting references:

 * Walter D.M. Bell, Bell of Africa.
 * "Ker & Downey Safaris - an African icon", African Hunter Magazine, Vol 16 No 1, 2010.
 * Edgar N. Barclay, Big game shooting records: together with biographical notes and anecdotes on the most prominent big game hunters of ancient and modern times, H. F. & G. Witherby, London, 1932.
 * W. Robert Foran, "Edwardian ivory poachers over the Nile", African affairs, Vol 57 No 227, 1958, pp 125-134.
 * E.I. Steinhart, "Hunters, poachers and gamekeepers: towards a social history of hunting in colonial Kenya", Journal of African history, Vol 30, 1989, pp 247-264.

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

20 bore
 * Imperial War Museums,"20 bore cartridge, No. 6 shot, Twenty Gauge, Eley-Kynoch", iwm.org.uk, retrieved August 2017.
 * Imperial War Museums, "SG20 x 39R: Kynoch; 20 bore pistol", iwm.org.uk, retrieved August 2017.

To edit

 * .240 Apex
 * .400 Jeffery Nitro Express
 * .404 Jeffery
 * .450 Nitro Express
 * .450 No 2 Nitro Express
 * .500/465 Nitro Express
 * .470 Nitro Express
 * .476 Nitro Express

Hunt pages

 * List of beagle, harrier and basset packs of the United Kingdom
 * High Peak Harriers
 * Holcombe Harriers
 * List of draghound packs of the United Kingdom
 * List of hound packs of Australia
 * List of hound packs of Ireland
 * Scarteen (The Black and Tans)
 * List of bloodhound packs of the United Kingdom
 * Four Shires Bloodhounds
 * Kent and Surrey Bloodhounds
 * List of hound packs of New Zealand (& tie in with Hunting in New Zealand)

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

Conversation
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Fractions
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Bore size conversation chart
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.