THE GUN AT HOME AND ABROAD 
bore or upwards would be quite powerful enough for these animals. 
Solid bullets should be used, as although if a fair broadside shot could 
be obtained a buffalo could easily be killed with an expanding bullet, 
if shot through the lungs, high and well behind the shoulder, yet such 
a bullet might break up in the great muscles which cover the shoulder- 
blade, and so do very little damage where a solid bullet would have 
reached the heart. 
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