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The most deadly shot for the rhino is also that in the brain, with a 

 bullet placed in the center of the neck as a good second. In following a 

 wounded rhino he is always found with head high up, waiting for a 

 charge, in which case a raking shot through the shoulder generally 

 sounds his death knell. As the hippo is generally found in the water, 

 shots at the head must be the rule ; and his most certain death is to be 

 encompassed by taking him when his head is turned away and planting 

 the bullet on an imaginary line drawn across the base of his ears. In 



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the case of buffalo — one of the hardest to kill in the list and among the 

 dangerous when wounded — there is no more vital point to endeavor to 

 reach than the point of the shoulder if the beast is broadside; if facing, 

 with head up, the base of the neck; if quarter facing, the side of the neck, 

 so the bullet will rake through the body to the opposite shoulder. The 

 dum-dum, expanding bullet is nearly always used for this ferocious brute. 

 But, taken all into consideration, the lion is really the most dangerous 

 of the big game, as in proportion to the number killed he has caused 



