Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1921-06-11
PAUL J. RAINEY ON VISIT
HERE TELLS OF BIG GAME
HUNTING IN AFRICAN WILD
spot where my dive landed, 1t was
just Sc inches"
Gun Made to Order

Gun Made to Order
asked Mr.. Rainey how he got
started hunting-he was born in an
American city. Cleveland; and some
way you don't get to be such hunt
err accidentally; not in Cleveland, or
Atlanta.
81 guess I must have been born
with the instinct" he said. when /
was twelve years old 1 was out hunt
ing rabbits with a little rifle. Three
years later I decided that Cleveland
was too tame, and set out for Texas.
Cairo, Ill. to Houston on freight
trains. Texas was fairly rough
place in those days and after a
while I decided to go to college. VI,
to that time, I had devoted most OF
my attention to trap-shooting. I
cent, and could have made money
at it, but my father objected.
"I went to the University of Chi
cago and got something OF an edu-
cation and lost my knack at the traps:
When L got out of that college 1
couldn't even shoot decently:
This unhappy situation obtained
until Mr. Rainey, in England, was
telling his troubles to the head OF
great British gun-making firm.
"And I have to admit" he said,
that the English have the world
beat in making firearms. These peo-
ole literally tailored gun too the
to the company's range and gave me
a gun that could be adjusted for
drop and everything. l fired and
fired, and he set it and set 1t, unth
, it fitted me. Let's try some live
BIRDS he said, and 1 killed 80 wild
pigeons without a miss. decided
| | was back on my game. Your eye
I.;r l, oh cra6 somewhat ne JOlI
! me, and you've grown away from
, your former guns. This is the model
that fits you And, by George 1t
did fit me-"
Mr.. Rainey is an expert shot WIN
| a camera as well as a rifle or a gun.
It's even more interesting shoot
ing wild animals with camera than
with a rifle" he said. You have
some queer situations to meet. When
my first films were shown in London
| those Englishmen couldn't get II OUT
| of their heads that there was fake
| in them somewhere. Then they fell
and they fell awfully hard: They
are a sporting people, and hunting
| with the lens appealed to them ire
| mendously."
have been show in Atlanta, by the
way-some of them. He has with
| him a set taken later, including the
! charging lion that stopped just snort
| of the lens, and is to show them prl"
vately for Mr. and Mrs. Ada1r and
| few of their friends.
I always had wanted to ask some
real big-game hunter if the modern
! small-bore sporting rifle with great
| velocity and a soft-nose bullet was
as good for really big game as the
! catalogs said.
| takes Sh OCI<inP mower more
than penetration to stop a lion, a
tiger, rhino, or an elephant. The
| small-caliber bullet, even Of the eX-
| panding type, doesn't have enough
jolt. believe the 40 IS about the
| thing-thats AT caliber. You can
stop an elephant with that, but you
| have to hit him right"
Mr.. Rainey meant, of course, that
he or another experienced blg-game
| hunter could do it. I have never
than a standard military target of
white and black paper
t. Elephant Shooting
81 shot COW elephant by mistake
with that type of rifle he said.
Cows are not supposed to have
inches long This one had six-foot
tusks; the biggest cow elephant that
1 ever was. l suppose. L thought she
was bull and killed her in herd:
i The herd refused IT, leave and l
heard the native bows in the trees
around me wondering if the elephants
Ecould tear down the trees we were
in and get us. 1 did not wait to find
out. so [ am still wondering"
Mr.. Rainev says the elephants
brain is about the size of a mans,
packed in a great mass of spongy
bone.
You can reach it all right from a
| frontal or side-frontal shot by aim
ing for the hollow oven the eye" he
said. For a side shot YOU have to
go for the heart, and bull elephant
| won't stop promptly even for a heart
i shot s0metlmes.".
Mr.. Rainey talks in a most unaf-
fected and businesslike manner
about these things, and you have to
draw them out of him. He likes the
.45-caliber automatic pistol used in
the United States army, he says. and
has killed five bears with one. So
far as you can tell from Mr.. RaineY.
a very tall. quiet, unassuming man
with gray hair and peculiarly steady
eyes, there is nothing TO get excited
about. shooting lions and tigers and
elephants.
Well, [ suppose if Mr.. Rainey had
got excited about it at the time. he
probably wouldn't be here now. That
he 1,o niot