400 



BIG GAME SHOOTING 



cylinder or modified choke. The man who uses a ' Paradox ' 

 need not take any other gun, a saving in the size of one's 

 battery worthy of consideration ; but perhaps the strongest 



Hoilow point 



Fig. 15. — i2-bore ' Paradox' bullets 



argument in favour of this weapon is that the man who has 

 much snap-shooting to do (from a howdah, for instance) is 

 much more hkely to be successful when handling the gun 



Fig. 16 i 



he uses every day and often than he would be if trying to make \ 



snap-shots with an ordinary rifle, used rarely by comparison, ' 



and perhaps firing so heavy a charge as to make practice with \ 



it * no joke.' ' 



Colonel Fosbery has succeeded in perfecting the ' Paradox ' j 



