Sporting Rifle

Dr Ian Player 1927-2014

There some who will forever be regarded as heroes of conservation, held by all who knew them in high regard. Dr Ian Player was one of those people.

Born in South Africa in 1927, he would serve as a young man in the SADF – 6th South African Armoured Division, attached to the American 5th Army, during the Second World War. Returning from the

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