192 BIG-GAME SHOOTING IN UPPER BURMA 



time I used it was also against bison, in very 

 thick cover in August. I got up to within six 

 yards of the beast before I could see him at 

 all. A soft-nosed bullet behind the shoulder, as 

 he stood broadside on, bowled him over, and I 

 gave him two more shots merely to prevent 

 him getting on his legs in the dense stuff in which 

 he was. The bull was really killed by the first 

 shot. On another occasion I fired at a large 

 bull elephant going away from me. The story 

 of this hunt has already been told. I had given 

 him the ear-shot, but had missed the brain. 

 There was a steep nullah a couple of hundred 

 yards farther on, and as I ran after the bull, he 

 scrambled down into the nullah and climbed 

 the opposite bank, thus presenting me with the 

 broad of his back. The little bullet struck fair 

 on the spine, and simply crumpled the huge 

 brute up. I had only to run up to him and 

 brain him with a shot in the ear. 



Space does not avail to relate the subsequent 

 performances of this insignificant-looking little 

 rifle, but it will suffice to state that it has ac- 

 counted for close on eighty head of game, both 

 in India and Burma, from gooral to elephants, 

 and has never yet failed me. It has killed 

 among other game some thirty thick-skinned 

 animals ; so that it has been thoroughly tested. 

 I have missed with it occasionally, of course, 

 when firing long shots at gooral or barking deer ; 



