A four-ounce ball, raking an animal from stem to stern, must settle him at once.

This is a desirable thing to accomplish with wild buffaloes, as they may, frequently prove awkward customers, even after receiving several mortal wounds from light guns.
The four-ounce conical ball should be an excellent weapon for African shooting, where the usual shot at an elephant is at the shoulder.

This shot would never answer in Ceylon; the country is not sufficiently open to watch the effects produced upon the animal, and although he may have a mortal wound, he carries it away with him and is not bagged.

I have frequently tried this shot; and, although I have seen the elephants go away with ears and trunk drooping, still I have never bagged more than one by any but the head shot.

This fellow was a small 'tusker,' who formed one of a herd in thick thorny jungle.