The Sentinel=record., 1914-10-04
.DUMDuM BULLETS
 AND THEIR EFFECT
FAMOUS ENGLISH HUNTER IN cLlNED TO SCOUT THEORY DUM
 DUMS ARE USED AT WAR.
New Pointed Bullet, Itself German Invention, Makes Wound at Short Range Very Much Like Dumdums.

London, Oct. 3.-F. c. Selous. the English big-game hunter, Is inclined to scout the charges made by the war ring European powers that each is using the dum-dum bullet. Ragged woLnds that have been inflicted he believes were done by the steel jacket
 ted bullets turning sidewise. T osup- port this theory he cites some of his CWn experiences in shooting big game and relates other instances as told to him by Colonel Roosevelt.
 T think in all probability both the allies and their antagonists said Mr. l Selous, have been innocent of the | charges made against them in this
 respect, and that the serious ragged wounds supposed to have been caused by bullets which have been purposely tempered with, have more likely been
 due to the fact, which 1 believe is not generally known, that the new pointed bull itself a German invention
 now for the first time being employed | in warfare in Western Europe, in tlicts at short range more grievous
 wounds than any form of softnosed
 expanding bullets.
 'In 1910, on his journey through | British East Africa and the Sudan iMr. Roosevelt used for all game, eX- | copt the very heaviest, an American
 Springfield rifle of 2So bore, taking
 he American military cartridge,
 which is loaded, like our own military
 cartridges. with the solid, nickel-coy
 cred, point bullet known in Germany
 as the spitzkugel" These solid pointed. military bullets, Mr. Roosa-
 welt told me, although they never
 broke up on striking the animal, in l flicted more serious wounds than any
 kind of expanding bullet he had ever previously used for biz game shooting
 Since that time have myself shot
 in Africa with a Ross rifle (the Cana
 dian army rifIe) and rifle of .275 bore.
 both taking cartridges loaded with
 solid, nickelcoated sharppointed bull l lets, and my experience with these | projectiles entirely bears out what Mir Roosevelt told me: that at close
 ranges, and at any rate up to a
 distance of 300 yards, they cause
 more grievous wounds than any form
 of expanding bullet. It would certain l ly seem that for some distance after 1 leaving the muzzle of rifle as long as their enormous initial velocity is | but slightly impaired, these pointed | bullets turn sideways on striking an animal, for, although the hole of en- try is always small, round, and c.ean
 cut, the skin is often torn open where they pass out on the other side; and | on several occasions I have found one
 of these long, solid, pointed bullets ab- | solutely unimpaired i'll shape, lying
 broadside under the skin of an ami l nal, through whose body it had torn
 a large lacerated wound.
 | At longer ranger than those at
 which game is usually shot, and when the initiai velocity of these pointed bullets has slowed down to consider
 able extent, no doubt they only drill small, neat, round holes through any | thing they hit, or a good deal more would have been heard about the Use of "dum-dum'' bullets during the late
 Balkan war than was actually the
 case. But accusations that such bul- lets were used in those wars were frequently made. and they are now be- ing heard again in Western Europe;
 and | cannot help thinking, from my own experieces in big game shooting that such accusations will always be made on one side and the other in all future wars whenever the shooting is fairly close quarters as long as point ed bullets are used"