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What is required is a bullet that will expand 

 when it strikes an animal but which will not 

 break all to pieces immediately on impact. 



The form of bullet which I long ago found 

 to work very satisfactorily with a '303 rifle was 

 the Government dum-dum, and since then I 

 have never used any other kind. The principle 

 of the dum-dum is to leave the lead at the top 

 of a solid nickel-coated bullet slightly exposed. 

 This causes the bullet to expand but not to 

 break into small pieces when passing through 

 an animal. 



Very few wounded animals will escape the 

 hunter, or live long after having been struck 

 with one of these bullets, and it is, therefore, a 

 very deadly and at the same time humane form 

 of projectile to use. Any ordinary military 

 bullet, whether for the ]\rannlicher or the '303 

 rifle, can be quickly turned into a dum-dum, 

 by rubl)iug down the nose on a rough file, until 

 the lead is just exposed. 



Altogether, I think that the modern hunter, 

 armed with a small bore rifle and using dum- 

 dum bullets, is far better equipped for the 



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