Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1921-06-11
Noted Sportsman Is Crack
Shot With Movie Camera,
as We'll as WithHigh-P Pow
cred Rifle

When a lion really is in a hurry
do his hundred yards in we'll under
the ten seconds set as standard
.or human speed. Wherefore Mr.. Paul
J. Rainey estimates effectively that
I certain lion was charging straight
or the lens of a certain motion
picture camera for approximately
three seconds. and being photo
graphed for that period of time. Be-
cause, says Mr.. Ra1ney, the charge,
IS subsequently measured. was Of
thirty-seven yards from the thicket
to the point where it ended with the
ion shot down. also before the lens.
The distance from the lens at
which this interesting and important
event. took place was twelve yards
that is. if the lion had managed to
continue his charge for one more
second. he would have Deen involved
vita the camera and also the oper-
stor. to the serious. If not the fatal.
detriment of both.
Mr.. Rainey was operating the
camera. But he seems to think little
Of this. fact. 49,. 49,, 49,
|: There was a mighty. good man
back of the. rifle alongside me-" he
explained. 1T made rather spec
tacular picture. L should have been
quite willing for the lion to have
come bit farther-this chap was d
corking good shot. You don't often
;et a chance for that kind of pic
ture."~
Famous Big Game Hunter
AS an interviewer, 1 should judge
not. 1t also seemed to me that one
would as infrequently get away VIII
1t and retain all his legs and arms
But there sat Mr.. Ralney, very
cool and composed, and then l re-
membered that he was the most IA
nous big game hunter in America
possibly in the world; and that ever
| the switch from a .47O express rifle
to a movie camera for shooting Mons
would not upset his nerves. Besides
as Mr.. Rainey took some pains &c
explain, there was a mighty goo
shot" acting as safety man for the
performance; his job being to stol
the charging lion before he had reach'
ed Mr.. Rainey and the camera anc
spoiled the film and quite concelV'
ably) Mr.. Rainey.
Paul ]. Rainey registers, from Cot
ton Plant, Miss, where he mas al
enormous estate and hunting pre-
serve. He has 'another-a duck pre-
| serve-of 1000 acres in LOUISIANA
| situated, oddly enough, between on'
| wild life reservation by the Rocke
| Teller foundation and another by th'
Russell Sage foundation. ~
Il can XIII as , many n.y. as Ra 5EU pu0H n
mean, can be sure of that many
! At feeding time in one lagoon
| sounds life surf breaking, or grea
| waterfall" ~ :,
| Quebec where he hunts moose am
a vast estate in East AFRICA on Lar Il =.
| Naivasha--the like that Rider BaS
gard wrote about; the one with m
| outlet-in the region where ther'
| really is big game.
FIRST to hunt Lion With Dogs
In Atlanta for a few days, Mr.
Rainey is visiting Frank Adalr' VINO
| recently, with some other Atlantians
was his guest in. Mississippi. Mr.
| Adair is a great dog fancier. anc
Mr.. .Rainey's kennels are renowned
all over the world, He has fos
| hounds with a pedigree OF the Trlgg
and, Birdsong strains running PACK
MIR. Rainey, by the way. is the
first man ever 10 hunt the lion with
hounds.
suggested a;e It." he reflected. "Bu1
l tried it-and it worked splendidly
I took out a pack of hounds from
America; fox hounds to bring the
fiFhtng to end D az the e rsme '0r
"In one little trip of five weeks
of which one week was spent going
and another returning, I got sixteer
lions, hunting with dogs. They bay
the brute and then stand in a circle
and roar at him and he roars bacl
and charges-but It's the rarest thlnl
for a lion to get well-trained dos
on the charge. He can rush stag
but the dog can dodge. I've seen on
lioness charge six times in the opeI
at single dog of my pack anC
miss every time; miss by inches, bu
| miss"
Regards Escape as Joke
l. There once was a lion that misse'
Mr.. Rainey by inches, also. Mr.: Raj
ney laughed about it; he regarded i
as a good joke-perhaps. on the lion
He was hunting with man name
Shelley think that was 1t; an
each carried a double gun; that is
big game hunters don't rely much o,
repeating rifles because sometime
they don't repeat when repetition
grievously needed.
I'VE had this FELLOW IN a grow
so thick and dense it was almos
dark, and he was hard to see" sal
Mr.. Rainey. Il had got a flash a
him and let fly one barrel, and, a
we later found, just nicked him Of
the scalp; so he was in bad hu
NOR. All of a sudden he charge
Shelley, who let drive with bot
barrels. There was tree in my lin
Of sight and 1 couldn't fire. Shelle.
missed him, but he swerved from tn
flash and came straight at me.
had one cartridge left and I wa
lucky enough to get the bullet be
tween his eyes. AS l fired, l jumped
or rathe rdived to one side.
''Well, he was stopped, all right
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