While recovering from the flu last week I did a fair amount of daytime tv. One thing I watched was "Trader Horn", an early talkie staring Harry Carey. Dialog was lame, acting was bad, plot was hokey, but....there was some fantastic footage of herds of African plains game, rhino, lions, leopards, etc. There were some scenes of actual hunts. Big cats made some actual kills that given the level of technology of 80 years ago had to take place in an enclosure.
Carey was armed with an underlever Paradox double, a type of rifle /shotgun hybrid. It has a few inches of shallow rifling at the muzzle to stabilize a bullet but not so much as to degrade a shot pattern too much. Loads available ranged from birdshot to hardened lead slugs that could & did take down elephants. Carey in real life was a pretty tough old bird & could handle a gun so I think the sequence of him taking a charging black rhino might have been the real deal. All in all, glad I saw it
Uplander
Carey was armed with an underlever Paradox double, a type of rifle /shotgun hybrid. It has a few inches of shallow rifling at the muzzle to stabilize a bullet but not so much as to degrade a shot pattern too much. Loads available ranged from birdshot to hardened lead slugs that could & did take down elephants. Carey in real life was a pretty tough old bird & could handle a gun so I think the sequence of him taking a charging black rhino might have been the real deal. All in all, glad I saw it
Uplander