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.30, etc. but that he wants one which will kill 

 any dangerous animal, not occasionally, but every 

 time. For all kinds of game except rhino and 

 elephant, he likes a lead or copper-nosed bullet of 

 three hundred and fifty to four hundred grains and 

 twenty-three hundred feet velocity at the muzzle. 

 It will be seen that he sticks to more lead and less 

 velocity, being," with these figures, from five hundred 

 to seven hundred feet in muzzle velocity behind the 

 top notch of today. His experience is that the 

 heavier bullet expands and uses all its shocking 

 quality in the body of the animal, and does not slip 

 on through. His favorite rifle for this work was a 

 .318, with copper-tipped bullets. 



This same hunter worked out to his own satisfac- 

 tion his ideas of a good elephant gun. He used a 

 single trigger, double-barreled, English express rifle, 

 .577 caliber, with a seven hundred and fifty grain 

 bullet driven by an axite charge equal to 100 grains 

 of cordite. He chose this load after experimenting 

 with others. He tried a .600, with a nine hundred 

 grain bullet, but found that it did not have the pene- 

 tration of the .577, although the rifle weighed three 

 pounds more. On the other hand he found that the 

 .577 had much greater stopping quality than the 

 .500 or .450; the latter would sometimes do the 

 work, but not invariably. His .577 rifle he had 



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