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used and very practical. Its destructive power is due 

 not to the action of an explosive charge, but to its 

 method of construction. About three-quarters of the 

 way up the bullet is hollow, and in this hollow is 

 placed a copper tube which is simply intended to plug 

 it, and thus to prevent the resistance which the air 

 would offer it during its flight if the hollow were open ; 

 it acts the same part as the wax in the 303 bullets. 

 The impact causes the bullet to expand. Often it 

 breaks into pieces ; or else takes a mushroom shape, the 



HOLLOW 303 

 BULLET. 



8-BoRE SOLID 

 BULLET. 



577 EXPRESS 

 SOLID BULLET. 



head, in its tremendous velocity, dragging and catch- 

 ing with its edges the flesh and viscera ; and it often 

 happens in the case of delicate animals that upon 

 leaving the body it makes a hole as big as the crown 

 of a hat. The express 577 bullet, the hollow or the 

 soft-nosed express of my 303, which are of that type, 

 may be used successfully for all animals with a soft 

 skin or of average corpulency, which, in the African 

 fauna, are the lion, leopard, cat, wild-boar, and all 

 antelopes, with the exception of the eland. 



