RIFLES FOR BIG GAME 



him, he will certainly turn.- Yet another hunter 

 says that it is not difficult to sidestep the charge of 

 a rhinoceros, if you have nerve enough to wait 

 until it is close before you step aside. In any case 

 these great animals, in shape and size, are some- 

 thing like a street car. One fancies that the theory 

 of plenty of lead and plenty of powder would be 

 more comforting at such a moment. 



The keen hitting, small-bore arm is for the delib- 

 erate shot or the long range shot. Between shoot- 

 ing at a standing animal and a charging animal 

 there is all the difference between shooting ducks 

 over decoys and quail springing in cover; one is 

 aiming work and the other is snapshooting. 



For our American big game we do not need so 

 much shocking power but must have range and ac- 

 curacy; therefore, the small-bore modern weapon 

 may be called correct for our country today. It is 

 sometimes necessary to kill mountain sheep at 

 ranges of two hundred yards or over although 

 very often you will get shots at seventy-five or one 

 hundred yards in actual hunting experience and 

 it is better to get too close than to open up your 

 battery while your game is two or three hundred 

 yards away. Today the proposition of hitting your 

 game when you have found it is far simpler than 

 it was in the old black-powder, heavy bullet days, 



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