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adapting the material of the bullet to the purpose 

 specially desired. No soft-skinned animal should be 

 shot with a hardened bullet, and no hard-skinned 

 animal should be shot with a soft bullet. 



You naturally wish to kill your animal neatly to 

 double it up upon the spot. This you will seldom or 

 never accomplish with a very hard bullet and a heavy 

 charge of powder, as the high velocity will drive the 

 hard projectile so immediately through the animal that 

 it receives no striking energy, and is accordingly un- 

 aware of a fatal wound that it may have received, 

 simply because it has not sustained a shock upon the 

 impact of a bullet which has passed completely through 

 its body. 



To kill a thin-skinned animal neatly, such as a tiger, 

 lion, large deer, etc., the bullet should be pure lead, 

 unmixed with any other metal. This will flatten to 

 a certain degree immediately upon impact, and it will 

 continue to expand as it meets with resistance in 

 passing through the tough muscles of a large animal, 

 until it assumes the shape of a fully developed mush- 

 room, which after an immense amount of damage in 

 its transit, owing to its large diameter, will remain fixed 

 beneath the skin upon the side opposite to its place 

 of entry. This bestows the entire striking energy 

 of the projectile, and the animal succumbs to the 

 tremendous shock, which it would not have felt had 

 the bullet passed through, carrying on its striking 

 energy until stopped by some other object beyond." 



I will give one out of many illustrations of the in- 

 efficacy of the hollow bullet which Baker's experiences 



