[The Rifle and The Hound in Ceylon by Samuel White Baker]@TWC D-Link bookThe Rifle and The Hound in Ceylon CHAPTER V 4/42
Upon reaching him, I gave him a settling ball in the head, and we examined him.
The heavy ball had passed completely through his hips, crushing both joints, and, of course, rendering him powerless at once. The shore appeared full half a mile from us on our return, and I could hardly credit my own eyes, the distance was so immense, and yet the ball had passed clean through the animal's body. It was of course a chance shot, and, even with this acknowledgment, it must appear rather like the 'marvellous' to a stranger;--this is my misfortune, not my fault.
I certainly never made such a shot before or since; it was a sheer lucky hit, say at 600 yards; and the wonderful power of the rifle was thus displayed in the ball perforating the large body of the buffalo at this range.
This shot was made with a round ball, not a cone.
The round belted ball for this heavy two-grooved rifle weighs three ounces.
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