Jim Corbett’s Gun Cabinet: A Life in Steel... A video by Rose & Scroll ft. Undiscovered Corbett a new book by Ian Douglas
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On an April evening in 1930, in the hills of northern India, a man eased down a narrow ravine — a clutch of nightjar eggs carried with care, a rifle at the ready. He stepped clear of a great slab of rock, looked back over his right shoulder — and straight into the face of a man-eating tigress.
The rifle lay across his chest, pointing away from her. To bring it to bear, the muzzle would have to travel three-quarters of a circle. One-handed. So slowly that the movement itself could not be seen.
The man was Jim Corbett — and those few seconds have been argued over for ninety years. At the centre of the argument stands one particular rifle, with a number in a London gunmaker’s ledger, and a silver plaque engraved with the wrong initials.
But this is not the story of that rifle. It is the story of all of them.
The Rose & Scroll Fine Gun Journal presents… Jim Corbett’s Gun Cabinet: A Life in Steel...
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