3 i2 GUN, RIFLE, AND HOUND. 



covering the shoulders as well as the head, blue-tinted 

 spectacles, and a strip of flannel sewn inside the coat 

 to cover the spine, are absolute essentials. Add to 

 this the absolute avoidance of stimulants, except 

 perhaps a little claret and soda with lunch, and the 

 odds are the sportsman will not suffer from exposure 

 to the sun. 



There are various ways of stalking buck, but the 

 most usual is the one I am about to describe, and that 

 is with a bullock-cart. The buck are used to seeing 

 these carts about with the natives, and as a rule will 

 allow them to approach, if intelligently driven in a 

 spiral, within a hundred and fifty yards, that is, if they 

 have not been too much shot at. The sportsman 

 should be walking at the far side of the cart, and 

 when he judges the buck will not stand a nearer 

 approach, he must kneel quietly down behind a tree 

 or bush, while the unwieldy vehicle goes creaking and 

 clattering on. It is just possible that if the cart is 

 carefully and intelligently worked round the buck they 

 may approach the sportsman nearer, but as a rule the 

 shot has to be taken at about the range I have named, 

 and frequently unsuccessfully. It is hardly necessary 

 to say that following it up with running shots is 

 absolutely useless, though it is often done. The only 

 result is a considerable extent of country disturbed for 

 nothing. 



The weapon to be used for buck-shooting is of 

 course an Express rifle, preferably "450 bore, but 

 anything between '380 and "500 will do. The finest 

 antelope shot I ever knew, who was my companion on 



