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stopping power, and insufficiency of blood-letting for track- 

 ing purposes. The two former the English Government has 

 vainly been trying to remedy by the creation of an expanding 

 bullet — which shall not fall under the ban of the Geneva 

 Convention^ — but has, so far, only succeeded in attracting 

 hearty expressions of ill-will from those who may reasonably 

 expect to become targets for our bullets some day. The 

 sportsman, less limited, had no difficulty in arriving at a 

 variety of designs which did, as a matter of fact, greatly 

 increase the efficiency of the projectiles of these small-bore 

 rifles, and it is probably no exaggeration to say that every 

 description of big game has been shot with the '303. Rhino, 

 buffalo, bison, lions, tigers, leopards, and bears of all sorts 

 certainly have, and, if I cannot actually authenticate the 

 shooting of elephants therewith, I certainly can with the 

 Italian military rifle of still smaller calibre. Yet the '303 

 has never been the sportsman's favoured weapon. What he 

 wants is less the penetration that will go right through an 

 elephant's skull than the crashing blow which will knock that 

 animal out of time (even if the aim is not exactly true) for 

 long enough to enable him to get behind a tree, or to mount 

 his horse, as the case may be. This the '303, in spite of the 

 various methods above referred to, did not do. Splitting the 

 envelope of the lead, removing part of it at the point, and 

 other devices, did certainly cause the "303 bullet to inflict 

 larger wounds and to let more blood, but there was little, if 

 any, increased shock. 



Recently, however, we have attained a very different state 

 of things. Mr Leslie B. Taylor, the well-known Managing 

 Director of Westley - Richards' Works at Bournbrook, has 

 invented a projectile which is quite a new departure, and one 

 not easily described without illustrations. The lead bullet, 

 nickel-covered of course, has a slightly hollowed point, but 

 whereas the hollow in the point of the leaden bullet is 

 formed by a tube placed within its nose, the hollow in the 

 "L. T." bullet (as it is called) is effected by dividing the 

 outer envelope, for which the forward division, which may 

 either be of nickel or copper, provides the means. Between 



■^ As a matter of fact there is no reference to bullets in the Geneva 

 Convention, but this is the popular way of putting the matter. 



