Not only did he like them, he certainly knew how to use them. Would have been an interesting man to spend time with but then so would many of those early hunters. More than anything else would love to share a machan with Jim Corbett looking down on a maneater tiger as it crunched it way through a bait animal before Jim turned it's lights out.
Shoulder to shoulder with Bell as he pulled down on elephant after elephant with his little 7mm Rigby, I would just watch, too frightened to disgrace myself against such a shot as he was.