112 ''TRADE BULLETS" 



refer to those which might be required in 

 Scotland. 



The reason, I beHeve, that there are so 

 many of these unaccountable failures to bag 

 with the rifles in common use is simply want 

 of ''drive." What is the secret of the 

 tremendous outcry made (mostly in South 

 Africa) in favour of the .303 as a sporting 

 weapon? Not, I think, as much low 

 trajectory or high velocity as the fact that 

 with these weapons either a solid (compound) 

 bullet is used, or, at all events, one with 

 a long solid base. 



Now let us look at the ordinary, or 

 " trade " bullet supplied by gunmakers. We 

 will take the .500 as being perhaps the most 

 useful all-round rifle, and certainly that in 

 most general use. If we examine the 340- 

 grain bullet, as generally sold, in section, 



