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excessive chiefly to those who are not accustomed 
actually to count the cartridges they expend, to measure 
the distances at which they fire, and to estimate for 
themselves the range, on animals in the field when they 
are standing or running a good way off'. Only one 
wounded animal got away; and eight of the animals I 
shot had to be finished with one bullet—two in the case 
of the lioness—as they lay on the ground. Many of the 
cartridges expended really represented range-finding. 
