Big Game Shooting 



eighty yards away, and he is as good as yours. If 

 he doesn't see you, and you miss him, he won't 

 gallop twenty yards before he waits and looks round 

 for you — and bear in mind that any animal shot at 

 without previous warning is just as likely to gallop 

 straight at you as in any other way. At the 

 second shot, of course, he is yours, as the first 

 shot will have told you any errors in elevation or 

 direction. What I have just described actually 

 happened, except that he galloped quite close to 

 my bush before he stopped, and I began to 

 wonder whether I was going to be run down or 

 not, and then when I hit him in the heart (as 

 I found out on cutting him up), he gave a rush 

 and only missed the bush by a hair's breadth before 

 he fell dead. So number two species was dis- 

 posed of. 



The next thing we saw was a herd of six 

 giraffes, which I had not had the opportunity of 

 observing quite close till then. The proverbially 

 sharp eyesight of these animals enabled them 

 to spot us long before we saw them, but on this 

 occasion they saw my friend first, some one and 

 a half miles from me. The wind being right, 

 they headed straight for me, and I was somewhat 

 alarmed by hearing the ping of a bullet in rather 

 close proximity long before I heard the report of 

 his heavy cordite rifle. Down we went at once 

 to see what would happen. Giraffe move at what 

 appears to be a slow lumbering gallop, with never 



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