The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1908-02-12
THE SHOOTING OF BIG GAME
MOST DANGEROUS OF ALL AMI
MAILS Is THE RHINOCEROS.
Famous Hunter, Who Has Explored
Every Jungle Land in the World,
Tells Some of His Thrilling

ENpeTienCCS.

Tells Some of His Thrilling
Experiences.
The most dangerous of all wild
animals is the rhinocerOs, according
to one of the most successful of big
game slayers in the world, John r.
Bradley, of New York, who as a
sportsman has met with adventures
in every corner of Asia, Africa,
Australia and America and in the is
lands of the south seas. I'm equa-
torial Africa" says Mr.. Bradley, you
will find the rhinOcerOs almost every
where, in the high land and in the
low land, in the open country and
in the brush. You will find him
when you least expect him, and most
often when you do not want to see
him. He is a vicious and heavily
armed beast, almost the exact color
of the earth which you find out in
that sun-baked region, and when
stalking through his habitat, wholly
unconscious of his presence. you sud
denly hear his 'chug, chug!' then
God help you if you are not provided
with a rife of large calibre and car
rying steel bullets
Nerve Needed in Hunting RhinOs.
You Will want some steel in your
nerves, too, for the brute usually
weighs about 5000 pounds and his
Now, your rifle may be of the big
gest calibre and your bullets of the
hardest steel. But no matter how
many you pump at him you could
no more stop his rush by this means
than a popgun could stop a battle
ship The heaviest of steel bullets
could not reach a vital spot after
going through that great bonesnout,
and it would require an extra heavy
and extra hard one to cut through
it at all. Your only chance is to do
a swift side step, and even then yen
have only three shots that will count
the brain, the neck and the heart
shot. When he is charging head on
it is impossible for you to reach
either one.
A Thrilling Moment.
Il shall never forget one expe-
rience which | had with rhinocerOs.
/ was going along one day through
an open section of the country in
equatorial Africa, my caravan plod-
ding along behind me. About 500
yards away to the left / saw some
thing which attracted my attention,
and getting out my glasses discov-
cred a Thinoceros, his back just show
ing above a bit of thorny brush.
concluded to go after him, and call
ing my gun bearers selected a
doubIe-barreled English rife and
dismounting, started for the rhinoc.
eros, my gun bearers following me
but at a considerable distance, a.
the animal they most dread is the
rhinocerous. Rhino saw me com
ing, and | saw that he was bus!
making up his mind apparently be
tween the intention of charging me
or going after the caravan. WheI
/ was within about a hundred yards
of him fired, and saw from the kici
of dust from his thick hide that
had fired too high. In a second h
had wheeled and was coming for m
like a locomotive. / dashed towar
my gun bearers and snatched fror
one my Winchester and with thi
opened fire on the rushing beast, an
in II seconds more or thereabou
had pumped II bullets into him, mos
of them glancing off from his snou
but one fortunately breaking one
his knees. He is too heavy an
clumsy a brute to do much on thre
legs, and | was thus enabled to mi
newer so as to put a bullet throug
his brain
Lions Are Less Dangerous.
In speaking about lions Mr.. Brat
ley says that they, too, are DANCE
Gus, but less so than some oth'
creatures of the wild When wount
ed the lion will three times out
five charge a man, the other "
times he will sneak into the ia
grass and lie down waiting for Il
hunter to approach, and then chars
him before he knows it. If the hu
ter should run into male and