Carolina Quotes"Toa bundouki m'kubwa," I said. "The big one. Gimme the .470." The gunbearer snapped the barrels onto the elephant gun and slipped a couple of cigar-sized shells into it. I held it on the gory hyena and took his head off. "They say it’s a good woodchuck gun, the .220," Harry said. "I’m inclined to believe they may be right. But for pigs and hyenas and such it ain't much gun, is it?"
Robert Ruark Carolinian
Source
Ch. (pp. 57–8)
- work
- Horn of the Hunter (1953)
- year
- 1953
- locator
- pp. 57–8
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“"Toa bundouki m'kubwa," I said. "The big one. Gimme the .470…” Robert Ruark. Carolina Quotes, record CQ-84299BCB79. https://carolinaquotes.com/quote/84299bcb79
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