APPENDIX 



This beautiful weapon, built and balanced like a 

 fine hammerless shotgun, was fitted with open sights. 

 It was of course essentially a close range emergency 

 gun; but was capable of accurate work at a distance. 

 I killed one buffalo dead with it, across a wide canon, 

 with the 3OO-yard leaf up on the back sight. Its 

 game list however was limited to rhinoceroses, hippo- 

 potamuses, buffaloes and crocodiles. The recoil in 

 spite of its weight of twelve and one half pounds, 

 was tremendous; but unnoticeable when I was 

 shooting at any of these brutes. Its total record 

 was 31 cartridges fired with 29 hits representing 13 

 head of game. 



The conditions militating against marksmanship 

 are often severe. Hard work in the tropics is not 

 the most steadying regime in the world, and outside 

 a man's nerves, he is often bothered by queer lights, 

 and the effects of the mirage that swirls from the 

 sun-heated plain. The ranges, too, are rather long. 

 I took the trouble to pace out about every kill, and 

 find that antelope in the plains averaged 245 yards; 

 with a maximum of 638 yards, while antelope in 

 covered country averaged 148 yards, with a maxi- 

 mum of 311. 



