BULLETS 



appears, judging by the experience of great 

 hunters who have tried both, to be far more 

 effective than are rifles of 8 and 4 bore. 



I have never personally tried the Paradox, but 

 there is no doubt that it is rapidly superseding the 

 rifle for use upon game which is shot at fairly 

 close quarters. 



Though a solid, hardened bullet, from an express 

 rifle carried as a spare gun, may be useful at a 

 pinch, few men of any experience would care to 

 trust to such weapons for elephant shooting, 

 though, of course, even the largest animals have 

 been, and may be with luck, bagged with rifles 

 of even '450 bore. 



The number of the bores of rifles and guns 

 built for spherical bullets, such as 4, 8, 10, 12, etc., 

 means the number of spherical bullets of the given 

 calibre which theoretically weigh one pound avoir- 

 dupois. Practically, however, the thickness of the 

 cartridge case makes it impossible for it to contain 

 a bullet quite so heavy. For instance, the largest 

 bullet which I could fire from my 4-bore, which 

 took paper cases, weighed only 3^ ounces, and 

 to get that bullet into the case, the mouth of the 

 latter had to be pared down internally, and so made 

 very thin. In the case of the small bores, e.g., 

 the various express, '303, and other small-bore 

 rifles, the decimal represents the diameter of the 

 bullet in the fraction of an inch. Thus a '500 bore 

 bullet is half an inch in width at the base. 



Great care must be taken in casting hardened 

 bullets, as if too much antimony, tin, or quicksilver 

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