172 ADVENTURES OF AN ELEPHANT HUNTER ch. 
per second ; for the simple reason that such a 
bullet expands, tears a large hole and spends all its 
energy in the animal without slipping through. 
Against small game, I have for some years used 
a *318 rifle and find it, especially in conjunction 
with Westley Richards patent copper-capped 
bullets, immeasurably superior to either the *256 
•577 BULLET SHOWING IDEAL CAPPING; *577 BULLET (iN CENTRE) 
SHOWING IDEAL MUSHROOMING ; ON RIGHT, '500 SOLID NICKEL 
COVERED BULLET. 
or ’303, and one which has, on account of its high 
velocity and ideal form of expanding bullet, all the 
advantages of long range and flat trajectory 
associated with the small bore, and a large amount 
of the shock-giving qualities obtained with a larger 
bore rifle, without the recoil inseparable from that 
weapon. 
