RIFLES AND GUNS 43 



or single, and aln:iost any price can be paid ; but as 

 the rifling in the best of makes will eventually 

 be cut out, there is no practical reason for paying 

 too high a price. The author has always found a 

 sporting type with magazine, and having the wood 

 almost up to the muzzle, a strong, reliable weapon 

 and capable of much ill-usage. This weighs, with 

 sling, 8 lb. 6 oz. 



But for larger game something heavier is required, 

 and the writer has used with success a single '577 

 cordite rifle, weighing with sling and rubber heel-pad 

 14 lb. 



No doubt there is a great satisfaction in handling 

 a weapon that, if only held straight, will knock out 

 everything that it is pointed at. Hence every hunter 

 should be recommended to take a rifle of as large a 

 bore as he can shoot with comfortably, and not fall 

 into the error of believing because a bullet from a 

 small bore will turn completely inside out in a lump 

 of dead beef that therefore it will kill an eland. 



Consideration might also be given to the many ex- 

 cellent rifles turned out in America ; though beyond 

 target practice, where they have given good results, 

 the author has had no experience with them. 



Fit and Sighting. — Having selected the bore and 

 the type of rifle suited to the game it is proposed 

 to pursue, due consideration must be given to how 

 the rifle comes up and specially to its sighting. 



A rifle, like a shot-gun, is the better for coming up 



