LET US GO AFIELD 



Baker, Speke. Those men used on elephants and 

 buffalo black-powder rifles of four bore or eight 

 bore small cannons, which were almost the limit 

 in recoil to be sustained by the human shoulder. 

 You could not find one of these guns anywhere in 

 Africa or anywhere else today. 



When we came to the American repeating rifle 

 of .45 caliber, which used seventy grains of black 

 powder and five hundred grains of soft lead, every- 

 one thought that the height of rifle development had 

 been attained. Today you would be laughed out of 

 camp if you carried one of those guns, the same 

 sort with which part of our soldiers were armed 

 in the Cuban campaign. 



Today the American army has the modern 

 Springfield rifle of the 1906 type, whose Spitzer 

 bullet of .30 caliber has a velocity and accuracy 

 combined which, in the opinion of army men, make 

 this the best military weapon in the world. It is 

 also one of the best big game guns in the world 

 today. Use it with a bullet of one hundred and 

 seventy grains, and it will do business with almost 

 anything up to rhino and elephant or big African 

 buffalo. Indeed, it will kill any of these animals, if 

 rightly handled. With this piece, which your gun- 

 maker can reduce to sporting lines for you for a few 

 dollars, you do not have to bother much about eleva- 



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