THE BEST ALL-ROUND RIFLES FOR 

 THIN-SKINNED GAME. 



A RIFLE that is thoroughly effective, or even a 

 smooth-bore upon all thin-skinned game up to 

 seventy-five yards is the type of weapon that the 

 wanderer wants in distant lands where the larger 

 carnivora exist. It should be his companion by day 

 and night in fact, rarely out of his hands, and ever 

 within reach therefore it must be light and handy, 

 and " fit like a glove/' or it cannot fulfil the part it is 

 intended for. 



I can only understand why an authority like Sir 

 Samuel Baker makes what appears to me a very 

 obvious mistake in his work, " Wild Beasts and their 

 Ways," from the fact that in his early days he was a 

 wonderfully powerful man, capable of handling suc- 

 cessfully very heavy arms, and so he jumps at the 

 conclusion that the majority of his countrymen can 

 do the same. This is a mistake ; a 12 Ib. gun, carried 

 all day and used effectively when requisite, is a 

 performance that very few can accomplish in our 

 native land, let alone in a tropical climate. I am 

 myself more than usually stalwart, and although I 

 have succeeded in performing the above task, yet it 

 was not without causing me great fatigue and dis- 

 agreeable after results. 



Mr. Samuel Copper, of the Maryland Oyster Police 

 Force, a grand shot and keen sportsman, always shot 

 with a gun that just exceeded 12 Ibs. In stature he 



