APPENDIX III 



For the benefit of the sportsman and gun crank 

 who want plain facts and no flapdoodle, the follow- 

 ing statistics are offered. To the lay reader this 

 inclusion will be incomprehensible; but I know my 

 gun crank I am one myself! 



ARMS 



Army Springfield, model 1903 to take the 1906 

 cartridge, shooting the Spitzer sharp point bullet. 

 Stocked to suit me by Ludwig Wundhammer, and 

 fitted with Sheard gold bead front sight and Lyman 

 aperture receiver sight. With this I did most of 

 my shooting, as the trajectory was remarkably good, 

 and the killing power remarkable. Tried out both 

 the old-fashioned soft point bullets and the sharp 

 Spitzer bullets, but find the latter far the more ef- 

 fective. In fact the paralyzing shock given by the 

 Spitzer is almost beyond belief. African animals 

 are notably tenacious of life; but the Springfield 

 dropped nearly half the animals dead with one shot; 

 a most unusual record, as every sportsman will 



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