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accepted on a paper target basis ; it is accurate, and 

 it will kill if you place the little bullet in the right 

 spot. Placed far from the vital spots on a big game 

 animal, it would be very risky for the user. But at 

 least one woman hunter has been known to kill a 

 full-grown tusker with the .256 ; and the tiny bullet 

 has accounted for numberless specimens of other 

 great game. It is very modern. 



The descent to the .256 from the black-powder 

 four bore rifle of early English days in Africa was 

 at first gradual and then very swift. It is easy to 

 recall the report of an American adventurer who, 

 a little over a dozen years ago, came back from 

 Africa and calmly announced that he had been able 

 to kill all the species of African big game with the 

 American repeating rifle of that day. Everyone 

 scoffed at him at first. Since that time the truth of 

 his statement has been proved a hundred times by 

 other Americans. So many of our hunters have 

 demonstrated the .405 repeater, for instance, that 

 there is no longer any question of its efficiency, al- 

 though many rifles are more accurate than this. 



One good hunter of the writer's acquaintance says 

 that should he ever make a second trip to Africa, he 

 would take no other gun but the .405 for any kind 

 of game, and would use the soft point bullets and 

 not the full nickel-jacketed. Everyone to his taste. 



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