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grain hollow front bullet for the .450 and a 

 440-gTaIn hollow front bullet for the .500. 

 Now, it seems to me that they thus avoid 

 the Scylla of bullets with too light a base, 

 only to fall into the Charybdis of getting a 

 bullet too heavy for the powder, or, in other 

 words, a high trajectory. I say "it seems 

 to me," because I have not been able to 

 make the necessary experiments to prove or 

 disprove my idea. I imagine that for these 

 heavier-based bullets it is better to adopt the 

 so-called Magnum chambering, having 140 

 grains of powder in .450 and 160 in the .500 ; 

 but I leave it to gunmakers to consider 

 whether they cannot give us the lighter 

 bullets in a different shape, so that we may 

 have a heavier base and yet the same 

 weights of powder and lead respectively. 

 Meanwhile, sportsmen are warned that all 



