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to risk cartridges turned out by others. This 

 objection has always seemed to me to be puerile. 

 Cartridge manufacturers like Eley and Kynoch 

 do not supply bad cartridges, and a missfire 

 from one of their cartridges is not more likely 

 to occur than one from a cartridge supplied by 

 the maker of the rifle. The real reason was not 

 far to seek. However, I had suffered such 

 inconvenience in Burma through having to get 

 my cartridges sent out direct from England, and 

 had been put to such expense in the matter of 

 freight, agency, duty and, finally, carriage to 

 my destination, not to mention the fact that the 

 actual price of special cartridges was consider- 

 ably higher than the price of those turned out 

 by cartridge manufacturers, that I decided to 

 go for my rifle where I could get one taking 

 Eley's or Kynoch's cases. I therefore went to 

 the Army and Navy Stores in Victoria Street, 

 and have never regretted having done so. I 

 had no experience of high-velocity rifles, but 

 decided on a - 450-bore, as I thought a *400 would 

 prove too light a weapon for efficient use on 

 heavy game. 



Having appointed a day for the trial of a 

 couple of rifles at the Society's range at Nunhead, 

 I went down there shortly before returning to 

 Burma. To my dismay the -450 rifles were not 

 forthcoming, but the Society's employe had 

 brought with him a couple of *450-*400 rifles 



