Hunting in Many Lands 



difference of opinion among men who hunt 

 game on other continents than ours. Thus, 

 Mr. Royal Carroll, in shooting rhinoceros, buf- 

 falo and the like in South Africa, preferred 

 big, heavy English double-barrels; while Mr. 

 William Chanler, after trying these same dou- 

 ble-barrels, finally threw them aside in favor of 

 the .45-90 Winchester for use even against 

 such large and thick-hided beasts as rhinoc- 

 eros. There was an amusing incident con- 

 nected with Mr. Chanler's experiences. In a 

 letter to the London Field he happened to 

 mention that he preferred, for rhinoceros and 

 other large game, the .45-90 Winchester to the 

 double-barrel .577, so frequently produced by 

 the English gun makers. His letter was fol- 

 lowed by a perfect chorus of protests in the 

 shape of other letters by men who preferred 

 the double-barrel. These men had a perfect 

 right to their opinions, but the comic feature 

 of their letters was that, as a rule, they almost 

 seemed to think that Mr. Chanler's preference 

 of the .45-90 repeater showed some kind of 

 moral delinquency on his part ; while the gun 

 maker, whose double-barrel Mr. Chanler had 

 discarded in favor of the Winchester, solemnly 

 produced tests to show that the bullets from 



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