. The Big game of North America [microform] : its habits, habitat, haunts, and characteristics : how, when, and where to hunt it. Hunting; Hunting; Big game hunting; Big game hunting; Chasse; Chasse; Chasse au gros gibier; Chasse au gros gibier. STIM-IIfNTIMi THK AXTKI-OPK '.V2\ Kxpivss Westley Richanls litlc. I'oity ciililtfr, sliootiiit;' !()(» tollO^ of Curtiss & llnrvfy powder, served me jiisf the .siiim- way. With this ritle I shot hundreds of small Oeer and ostriches, hut never, until I used the hollow-poinled bullet, was I sure f)f my uame uidess I hit it just in the right p
. The Big game of North America [microform] : its habits, habitat, haunts, and characteristics : how, when, and where to hunt it. Hunting; Hunting; Big game hunting; Big game hunting; Chasse; Chasse; Chasse au gros gibier; Chasse au gros gibier. STIM-IIfNTIMi THK AXTKI-OPK '.V2\ Kxpivss Westley Richanls litlc. I'oity ciililtfr, sliootiiit;' !()(» tollO^ of Curtiss & llnrvfy powder, served me jiisf the .siiim- way. With this ritle I shot hundreds of small Oeer and ostriches, hut never, until I used the hollow-poinled bullet, was I sure f)f my uame uidess I hit it just in the right place. With the Express ball, all idares seemed more or less alike, so far as stoppin)j; further locomotion was con- cerned. The shock is so terrific that no small animal can stand up under it. more especially, as I said before, if the bullet's course is quartering, for then the animal's body catches the full force of the blow, aside from the tearing and smashing of a ragged-pointed ball, cariying all before it. For Antelope-shooting, then, or, in fact, for any kind of big game sliooting, I prefer the Winchester, my choice being the repeater of large bore, say fifty caliber, with its 1 l()-grain powder-charge and hollow-pointetl, ;$()()-grain bidlet. Those preferring the single-shot need not swerve to any other make, as this comi)any makes the best single-shot rifles, of all calibers from twenty-two to fifty: and were 1 using a single-shot rifle for Deer, Klk, Antelope, my choice would be the forty-live caliber, shooting one hundred and tvventy-fiv<^ grains of powder and three hundred grains of leadâhollow-pointed ball. I must frankly admit, however, that I never could see where any single or donble barreled rifle could, in any way, compare with a repeaterâevery advantage clearly going to the ntany-sliot rifle. I am partial to the AVinchester rifles, for these reasons: They are safe, accurate, and durable: they are made in all calibers; they are sold at prices wi
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