Virginia gazette. [volume] (Williamsburg, Va.) 1893-192?, 1909-04-01
THE COST OF BIG
GAME SHOOTING
EFFECTIVE WORK N AFRICAN
WILDS REQUIRES A SMALL
ARSENAL
NERVE AND FINE AIM
some 81 the conditions Mr.. Roosevelt
VIII Encounter IN the jungle
ThrilliiC Experience With an
Elephant

captain Fritz Duquesus PROBES
shonal hunter. whose Years have been
spent in me search for IVORY over the.
veldts and junEles az East Africa re-
iates IN Hampton Magazine some. az
peri"nt"s in the Wilds With special
reier"nc" 60 President Roosevelt's
huni ne captain SAWS IN part.
De experience President Roosevelt
has Esin"d hunting game ON the North
American continent viii pe OF little
use % bim 90 has es petition into th,.
Hilds OF Fast Africa Hunting 10
America - a sport. something TO be
played az, hunting in Afrlc.. ~ a trade
almost g profession. IT. America one
merely takes % rife and goes out 10
shooi In Africa. C. hunt a Ia mode
one taxes hsttery Of arms usual,
thre~ and sometimes fou~ high power
rihes OF different csliherI rangint,
from sly and nv.-tsnths milirnetar ~
GOO c0rdif. express The cartridges
10Y these rlfes are charged With va
rioUs bullets. solid nickel steel. sole
nose lonS. soft nose short abd split.
Specially Designed Bullets.
Zach of these bullets Vas designed
hN experts Tor % special use and ON
tne Nay tnt1 are used depends th.
success OF ones shot often the use
OF the unsuitable bullet ends on th.
hunters death. CA small game IN.
iight callh-'r arm. SIN hye-teaths mill
llmeter is used and On large and dam
SrrouS game the nine iuilum.ter Maui
ser and 600 c.Jibe~ Cu-dite EXPRESS
give me best results The last named
rlne strikes the enormous blow %.
700 pounds. aud has e. ~ecOu OF close.
on 100 weight That The man who's.
nununE experiences has teen COM
hned Co bird SlCotiul with shOtetius
or small game. with. sAN a trirty-tWo
calloer rifle. may understand fne mean
lng 90 these figures. l-t nae state thar
the ordinary hlrty-rwo calioer rifle
had q rrcou oI perhaps t.u % Twelve
pounds. The doubl--larrel shotgu
which CO. -he ordlnar. hunter seems 10
have ali %" kicking capacity arr
weapon needs has recon- of from
twenty -ttr go ,Hlrtg pounds
The COO caliher Cordit, .Nprcss Is
the most deadly hand arm made.
notwithstanding the terrific force OF
this 500 express bullet ~ nust
placed in the correct part of an ele-
phants or rhinoceros anatomy 10
bring him down. The hunter must pat
the shot into the animals head or
heart. or he must fgCe - charge o.
VIII probably end in bis destruction.
Rifles OF various Calbtr are carried
TOT economy Il IS cheaper 10 use
small SIX tye-tenths milimeter rife
on small game, . nine millimeter on
medium game. and SIX hundred ex-
press ON biz game. than 10 carry one
weapon for all-rOund work. which
would have 20 b. big enough ~ least
Tor the Target game Nothing smaller
than four hundred anc fftv express
would 90 for that. and 10 would - DIS
tlncuy NneconoIniCal not % say fool
lsh. 10 shoot a small antelope. the size
OF a goat. with q six hundred express.
II would De- like using pile driver 10
xii q mosquito Again. cartridges De-
comes very costly BY the time they
reach the interior OF Africa A cor
fridge for SIX hundred express rifle
Tor Instance. costing Spence 90 cemtsl
IN London. reaches arr enormous price
by the time IL gets into tee hunting
grounds ~ Africa J have seen them
bring 8 shillines
Elephant Hunting.
Most game drops az the FIRST sho;
from the rifle % an experienced hun
ter. The game THAR makes tie story
is the game that's missed. as the
Swahill East coast natives) say. and
there is nothing truer than that saving.
as far as my experiences go. for a
bad shot nearly ended my trek 3 little
while ago in the lake country. was
treking between Lake Albert Edward