THE CRUCIFORM AND SPHERICAL 



. BULLET. 



This bullet, of which I claim to be the inventor, I 

 have lately been putting to numerous tests. After 

 having submitted it to considerable alteration, I 

 now believe that I have arrived at that point of 

 perfection of form and destructive power that no- 

 thing more deadly can be desired for slaying dan- 

 gerous and thick-skinned game. It is over sixteen 

 years ago, when I first submitted the cruciform to 

 tests of a suitable description to learn its value. 

 This was in the interior of tropical South Africa. 

 At short ranges, say distances under one hundred 

 yards, its performances were satisfactory enough in 

 killing power, but a tendency to irregularity of flight 

 was sometimes evinced. This serious fault I accounted 

 for by the divisions being too deep and too wide in 

 proportion to the length of the projectile, and that 

 the bullet itself was not long enough or heavy enough 

 in proportion to its diameter. In fact, it evinced 

 very much the same faults that are attributed to the 

 modern Express ball. 



To obviate these objections, I have gradually 

 increased the length of the butt of the bullet, and the 

 proportions of the shape that I have obtained the 

 greatest precision with, combined with destructive 

 power, are the following : — Divide the length of the 

 projectile into three equal parts, one-third being the 

 distance from commencement of shoulder to point, 



