death_date birth_place pseudonym citizenship nationality birth_date genre article_title name occupation
june 1954 clifton hall near edinburgh w.d.m. bell -lrb- karamojo bell -rrb- united kingdom scottish 1880 autobiography , travel , adventure w. d. m. bell
 walter dalrymple maitland bell big game hunter , adventurer , soldier and aviator
w. d. m. bell

walter dalrymple maitland bell -lrb- 1880 -- 1954 -rrb- , known as karamojo bell , was a scottish adventurer , big game hunter in east africa , soldier , decorated fighter pilot , sailor , writer , and painter .
bell was an advocate of the importance of shooting accuracy and shot placement with smaller calibre rifles , over the use of heavy large-bore rifles for big african game .
he improved his shooting skills by careful dissection and study of the anatomy of the skulls of the elephants he shot .
he even perfected the clean shooting of elephants from the extremely difficult position of being diagonally behind the target ; this shot became known as the bell shot .
although chiefly known for his exploits in africa , bell also travelled to north america and tasmania , sailed windjammers , and saw service in east africa , greece and france during world war i.
