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Bmulohast — Shooting licenses — Kit and equipment — ^Stores, etc. — 

 Transport : camels— Rations — 'Mounts — Presents — Personnel of 

 caravan : rates of pay — Head man — Details of actual expenses — 

 Shikaris : importance of having a good man — Staunchness- 

 Danger in big game shooting : the lion — Seventeen trips in Somali- 

 land — Present conditions in Somaliland : unsettled state of Interior 

 — Government distribution of rifles — The poUcy of concentration 

 on the coast : two sides to the question— The arms traffic and the 

 Mullah — Reasons for change of policy — A mistaken idea — -Broken 

 pledges ? — Position of the European community in Berbera — As 

 tilings are — The future ........ 236 



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CHAPTER XVII 



Rifles for dangerous game : importance of the subject — Brief summary 

 of conclusions — A detailed examination of the question — Classes of 

 game : and of rifles — Requirements in a rifle : to hit : to kill — 

 Characteristics of the Felidae and conditions under which they are 

 usually shot — Necessity of handiness and stopping-power — The 

 rifle — Single, magazine, and double rifles : pros and cons : 

 superiority of the double-barrul — The bullet — ^How aft'ected by 

 increased velocity — Changes in form and material — Penetration : 

 expansion : stabiUty — The perfect buUet — Effect on a bullet of 

 variations in form, weight, and velocity — Size of bore a prime factor 

 ill efliciency — Shock-effect of slow velocity bullets — Mr. Hicks' views 

 — Three kinds of shock ? — Velocity and resistance as affecting 

 expansion — Form of bullet and Uability to deflection — Summmg up : 

 the best type of bullet — Detailed list of modem rifles — Class I. : Ex- 

 press rifles — Class II. : small-bore H.V. rifles — Quotations : Glas- 

 furd : Sharp : Stigand and Lyell : criticisms — First-class shots 

 and small-bores — The average shot — Groups of smaU-bores : 

 Group (a) : {b) : (c) : the -318— The -280 Ross— Class III. : medium- 

 bore H.V. rifles— The -400— The soft-nosed bullet : Sii- A. Pease's 

 theory — The capped bullet — Bores larger than '400 — Class IV. : 

 shot-and-ball guns — ^The Paradox : its characteristics — The Explora 

 — The 12-bore spherical bullet : compared with the Paradox bullet 

 and the medium H.V. bullet — The charge with spherical ball — 

 Final choice of a weapon — Other factors in making a decision : 

 ex^iense : physique : the work the rifle has to do — ^The best all-round 

 rifle ? — For leopard — Bear — Pachyderms — Buffalo — " Sportsman- 

 ship " — Opinion of Sir A. Pease on the general question — Of Major 

 Glasfurd — Conclusion ........ 258 



