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to twenty yards. A sportsman has frequently to take shots at dangerous game 
at close quarters, fine shooting is required and he should know exactly where 
to aim and how fine a sight to take. 
Judging distances .—Young sportsmen usually over-estimate the distance, 
and a miss is the result. Practice alone will teach one. 
A useful battery .—A 12 bore gun and a *400 cordite rifle form a useful 
battery for all-round shooting. But for bison, buffalo and rhino, a large bore 
black powder rifle, x or a powerful cordite should also be taken. The gun or rifle 
that is the sportsman’s constant companion is usually the most effective, and 
the man with many weapons is often not so successful as the all-round rifle- 
wallah. Great care should be taken in cleaning all weapons, and cordite rifles 
especially require extra care. “ Orite ” and Vaseline are necessary to keep nitro 
weapons in good order. 
There are several kinds of bullets of different weights used in black pow¬ 
der express rifles. The ordinary “Eley bullets in a *450 express being 270 
grain hollow and 310 grain solid. Henry’s rifles were usually accompanied by 
a mould which cast bullets weighing (*450) 300 grn. hollow, 320 grn. hollow 
point, and 340 grn. solid. The latter, of soft lead, with 113 grs. of No. 6 powder 
just a third the weight of the bullet gave extraordinarily accurate results in a 
*450 “Alexander Henry” rifle. As good result were obtained with the above 
