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usually stop an animal even if the bullet does not 
kill it. The bullets of a smaller rifle may kill the 
animal, but not stop it at once. An elephant or 
lion, with a small bullet in its heart, may still charge 
for fifty or one hundred yards before it falls. 
Advice from a Cheerful Stranger 
Hence the necessity for a rifle that will shock as 
well as penetrate. 
Several experienced African lion hunters 
strongly advise taking a “paradox,” which in their 
parlance is affectionately called a “cripple-stopper.” 
It looks like what one would suppose an elephant 
gun to look like. Its weight is staggering, and it 
shoots a solid ball, backed up by a fearful charge of 
