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Updated: May 2, 2025
And he never ventured a foot from the building unless his rifle and revolver were with him, their magazines full of high-power shells. The girl always went armed, too, and soon grew to be such an expert shot that she could drop a squirrel from the tip of a fir, or wing a heron in full flight.
He tried to imagine himself the master of a splendid estate down the peninsula preferably at Hillsboro possessed of high-power cars and a string of polo ponies ... perhaps even a steam yacht... But these dazzling visions were not always in the ascendant.
"You see their nearness to other ships makes this imperative. Each ship has to take care not to knock out the apparatus of its neighbor by inconsiderate use of a high-power current; also it must not cause undue interference. In other words, a bevy of ships, like a group of persons, must be courteous to one another.
In the nesting time, then, the Hills went out over the open country, sometimes for days at a time, armed with long high-power telescopes. With these fearsome and unwieldy instruments they surveyed the country inch by inch from the advantage of a kopje. When thus they discovered a nest, they descended and appropriated the eggs.
They preferred to hunt alone, although they recognized what an increased chance for game our high-power rifles gave them, and eventually left us while I was away on a short trip, even though we still owed them considerable money. The Lolos are only one of the non-Chinese tribes of Yün-nan.
We had two twenty-four-gauge shotguns in case we met an elephant or anything similarly large and heavy, and the Little Boy proudly carried, strapped to his saddle, a twenty-two high-power rifle, shooting a steel-jacketed, soft-nose bullet, an express-rifle of high velocity and great alarm to mothers.
The red and gold of the little Royal Standard on the King's car glittered bright in the morning sun. Away we went. How my old "bus" did go; every ounce was being obtained from it; she fairly rocked and roared on the tails of the high-power machines ahead. I knew the road only too well; many a time in the early part of the war had I traversed it, and passed through these self-same gates.
"Do you realize that you want to be careful how you shoot with these high-power rifles?" asked Blake. "They carry a mile or more." "I've carried mine more than that, and it won't carry an inch," complained Ashton. "Wish you would see if you can fix it, while I get on some bacon." Blake took his scrutinizing gaze from his companion's face, and picked up the rifle.
The dispute might in the ordinary course of events have come to shooting; but only after hours of excited wrangling, and as a climax worked up to in a crescendo of emotion. This expeditious nipping in the bud was a thoroughly white-manly proceeding. The headman whirled about under the impact of the high-power bullet at so close a range, and collapsed face down. Simba sat calmly in his place.
The sportsmen of the world do not stick at using long-range, high-power repeating rifles on big game, but they draw the line this side of traps, poisons and extermination. The sportsmen of India once thought, for about a year and a day, that it was permissible to kill troublesome and expensive tigers by poison. Mr.
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