360 GUN, RIFLE, AND HOUND. 



Asia or Africa, with the possibility of shooting all the 

 game there found ? I assume the latter, as any first- 

 class gunmaker can answer the former. 



First of all, I must own that of all rifles the 

 1 2-bore is my favourite, possibly because I have killed 

 nearly all my really big game with this weapon. 

 Elephant-shooting comes in few people's way now, 

 but the 1 2-bore, with a steel-tipped conical bullet, is 

 big enough for them, while it is my ideal weapon for 

 buffalo and bison. As the foregoing pages show, I 

 have used it with good effect at tiger and panther, as 

 well as at large antelope and deer. 



If, however, two rifles can be allowed for the 

 above purposes, and the sportsman is rather on the 

 large scale, the 8-bore may be preferred for elephant, 

 rhinoceros, bison, and buffalo, while a "577 Express, 

 with solid bullet of pure lead, will be found a most 

 excellent weapon for soft-skinned dangerous game. 

 Sir Samuel Baker,* who was the first to advocate the 

 use of this weapon, writes to me under date 7th July, 

 1891, as follows : " I returned last May from a winter 

 in the Central Provinces, and I fired at seven tigers 

 only with solid pure lead '577. Only one of those 

 seven moved an inch ; six fell stone dead to the shot 

 the exception fell apparently dead, but at the sound of 

 my bugle signal close to her she rolled into a nullah, 

 where she crawled a short distance and fell dead. 

 Some of these would assuredly have required 

 following up had I used a hollow bullet." 



There is, however, this one great advantage to the 

 * Dead since these lines were written. 



