Word: nosed
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Increased lethal effect is obtained by softening the nose of the bullet to make it spread at impact. Steel jacketed bullets shoot straightest and farthest but bore clean holes instead of smashing a wide wound. Various powder loads have various killing power, but following is a rough table of the calibres and types of bullets generally recommended for various types of killing by rifle...
PREY BULLET DIAM. (Inches) BULLET NOSE...
Bear, lions, tigers, water buffaloes, etc. .30-.405 Soft-nose for safety; steel-jacketed for sure-shooting pelt-collectors...
Elephants, rhinoceros .405 to .500 Soft-nose, with "express" powder charge...
Sticking pins into a map of China became last week a more exciting game than many another. A big black-headed pin was appropriate to pierce the spot where a high Chinese official had his nose cut off and his eyes gouged out. Only a shining white-headed pin would do to show where a U. S. doctor was shot down trying to save some Chinese young women from rape. Finally a whole packet of pins could have been used up on Chinese towns where bloodshed, starvation and atrocious cruelty held sway. Shrewd pinners pierced the following places as most...