ROWLAND WARD'S GUILD OF FIELD SPORTSMEN. Volume 1, Number 1. September 2005.

2005 1st edition. 4to stapled magazine (211 x 297mm). Pp32. Colour and b/w photographs, colour and b/w illustrations, advertisements.

This is the first and possibly only issue of the house magazine of Rowland Ward's Guild of Field Sportsmen, a South African club for the keen big game hunter. Articles include: The Guild of Field Sportsmen, aims and objectives, code of conduct; Rowland Ward, the history; A Naturalist's Life Study - an extract; South Africa's hunting-led conservation revolution; Campfire - the African conservation success story; So wild creatures have a sixth sense too; First protect the soil; Selous Has an Accident - an extract; Fiona Claire Capstick - an interview; The Greater Kudu - shot placement, rifles and calibres, Method of Measurement No. 8, Greater Kudu entries; Are 'Peace Pacts' part of jungle law?; Rowland Ward sportsmen around the world; Rowland Ward news.