196 Leaves from an Indian Jungle. 



In addition, there occurred a few cases of sportsmen 

 coming to grief, owing to the alleged failure of the new 

 weapons to ' stop * dangerous game. 



Although this was to a certain extent due to the careless- 

 ness of the sportsmen themselves, in not taking the trouble 

 to use a suitable bullet, it was in some cases also attribut- 

 able to the makers, who had failed to supply ammunition 

 suited to the circumstances. 



The medium bore cordite riHe being a weapon of an ' all- 

 round ' type, suitable for use against heavy thick-skinned 

 game as well as animals of a lighter and soft- skinned type, 

 it is necessary to use at least two kinds of bullets in it 

 {i) penetrative , 'which is represented by the solid nickel- 

 covered bullet, and (2) expanding, which are of various 

 types (soft-nosed' peg ' hollow-pointed ' capped ' 

 split, etc.) The latter, moreover, include bullets of greater 

 and lesser degrees of expansive power, to which may be 

 added the still lighter expansive bullet for use on the 

 smaller harmless animals. 



From these various kinds of bullets the manufacturer as 

 well as the sportsmen should be able to choose a projectile 

 suited to the work it is intended to do ; and if they misuse 

 a too penetrative bullet on a charging lion, or a too expan- 

 sive one against the head of an elephant, they must take 

 the consequences. 



That manufacturers are often as much to blame as sports- 

 men in this connection is proved by the absurd advertisements 

 one sees describing the powers of some of these new rifles. 

 There is so much effort made to prove that they possess 

 greater penetration and striking power than the old black 

 powder weapons that, manufacturer leading sportsman 

 astray, they both forget that there is other game beside 

 pachyderms, and fall into such absurdities as guaging a 



