Introductory Chapter 



the bullet has penetrated these latter by the blood 

 tracks being frothy. The neck shot always 

 holds good, however, and I invariably take this 

 in preference to any other if I am on my day and 

 shooting straight. But in some animals the neck 

 is necessarily a small target, and so a gazelle or 

 oribi should be taken behind the shoulder, 



A hippo one must shoot in the eye or ear, as 

 these are about all one sees of him above water- 

 level. 



A charging rhino carries his head so low in 

 the act of galloping that one can shoot over it 

 into the neck in front of the shoulder. 



A charging lion you must hit where you can, 

 and be jolly quick about it, aiming usually at the 

 head, I suppose. 



About the safest place for a crocodile is in the 

 under part of the neck, as if hit anywhere else he 

 invariably manages to scramble down the bank 

 into the river and is lost. 



In conclusion, I would say that it has been my 

 aim to show how each species is likely to behave 

 under ordinary circumstances. In order to attain 

 this object I have been careful to record faithfully 

 my actual experiences, and, unless otherwise 

 stated in the text, have selected cases in which 

 the game animals acted in what I consider a 

 typical manner. 



