BULLET AND SHOT 



target at Bisley, I have no doubt that a sporting 

 double "303 is the antelope gun of the future. 



I once, with my Holland double '500 express, 

 made an extraordinary shot at antelope. Upon 

 that occasion, a herd which I was attempting to 

 stalk took alarm and fled, but as they took off down 

 a nullah on my right, I saw a chance, by running, 

 of cutting them off and obtaining a shot. I failed 

 to do the former, for the herd had passed before 

 I reached the nullah, but they pulled up to gaze. 

 I was terribly breathless after my run, but knelt 

 down and fired at the shoulder of the buck of the 

 herd. At the shot he fell, as did also another buck 

 standing behind him ! I saw no other male with 

 this herd. Upon that occasion I was using the 

 large canelured copper- tube express bullet with a 

 solid base, which weighs 440 grains, and is far 

 superior in penetration to the ordinary hollow 

 copper-tube bullet weighing 340 grains, for, while 

 its front portion breaks up, its solid base carries on. 

 In this particular instance, the bullet had smashed 

 up upon the further shoulder, while the solid base, 

 after going clean through the animal, broke the 

 spine of buck number two who was standing behind 

 the former. 



I have killed a number of bucks by running shots, 

 but have of course missed very many more. The 

 great thing to remember in firing running shots 

 at antelope is that you are hardly likely to miss 

 in front, and that you can scarcely fire too far 

 ahead of a buck going at full speed say 200 or 

 250 yards off across you. At a range of only 100 



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