Hunting at High Altitudes 



over the lungs, heart or smaller intestines, it would 

 succumb within a short distance. 



The trajectory of this bullet is very flat. It 

 shows a rise, as carefully tested, of seven inches in 

 two hundred yards. It is accurate, for as often 

 tested, careful shooting would place ten consecu- 

 tive bullets within a twelve-inch bullseye. It was 

 sighted for two hundred yards. For all distances 

 within that range it was necessary to aim low, 

 and for distances up to two hundred and fifty yards 

 the mark was usually reached for a deer by aiming 

 at the top of the back. 



A few years subsequent to this, my hunting car- 

 tridges were kindly tested at the Frankford Arsenal 

 by Major Michaelis, of the Ordnance Depart- 

 ment. I was then using the long range .45 caliber 

 rifle made by the Sharps Rifle Company, but by 

 putting a double patch around the .44 caliber 275 

 grain express bullet, it shot as accurately from the 

 .45 caliber rifle as from the .44. A few cartridges 

 were sent to Major Michaelis with the 275 grain 

 express ball and an equal number of .45 caliber 

 express bullets of my own design weighing 340 

 grains. Into all the shells no grains of powder 

 were loaded, and the result as determined by the 

 Government chronograph was that the .45 caliber 

 bullet attained a muzzle velocity of 1,830 feet a 



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