This rifle is a heavy gun that carries a bullet large enough to jolt a fixed star and recoil enough to put one's starboard shoulder in the hospital for a day or so.
Theoretically, the sportsman uses this weapon in close quarters, and with a bullet placed according to expert advice sees the charging lion, rhino or elephant turn a back somersault on his way to kingdom come.

It has a tremendous impact and will usually stop an animal even if the bullet does not kill it.

The bullets of a smaller rifle may kill the animal, but not stop it at once.

An elephant or lion, with a small bullet in its heart, may still charge for fifty or one hundred yards before it falls.

Hence the necessity for a rifle that will shock as well as penetrate.
[Drawing: _Advice from a Cheerful Stranger_] Several experienced African lion hunters strongly advise taking a "paradox," which in their parlance is affectionately called a "cripple-stopper." It looks like what one would suppose an elephant gun to look like.