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bores of high-velocity rifles. This is a real advance "all 

 along the line." 



Note. — I have had so much to say in print on the question 

 of double versus magazine rifles, that I am glad to be able 

 here to quote from Mr Taylor's writings on the subject. 

 He says : — 



"The double-barrelled system of rifle undoubtedly has 

 proved the most satisfactory type of deer-stalking weapon. 



" Experience teaches that it displays the primary essential 

 of successful stalking — viz., comparative noiselessness of 

 manipulation. 



" Two shots, aimed with accuracy, can be fired in quicker 

 succession from a double rifle than two shots from any type 

 of magazine rifle. The silence which experienced stalkers 

 enjoin upon the sportsman is impossible in the reloading 

 process of the noisy magazine rifle. 



"With a double rifle a sportsman is enabled quickly to 

 recover his aim and instantaneously to correct any error of 

 direction. 



" Smoothness and consistency of pull-ofl*, upon which pro- 

 ficient marksmanship so largely depends, are best secured 

 in the Westley-Richards modern double hammerless ejector 

 rifles. 



" The desiderata of shooting efficiency in a double-barrelled 

 deer-stalking rifle lie in accurate and interdependent barrel, 

 grouping, fineness of sighting, and flatness of bullet trajectory, 

 combined with a bullet of effective weight and expansion or 

 smashing power. 



"The '318 Accelerated Express rifle stands at the head of 

 the small-bore series now in vogue. Its bullet weighs 250 

 grains, and surpasses in hitting force the light bullets of the 

 •256-bore, 140 grains; the •275-bore, 140 grains; the •280-bore, 

 160 grains ; all of which err on the side of penetration without 

 shock, and thereby widely depart from the essential qualities 

 of a sporting bullet." 



