He wrote a number of books. My favorite is: This Business of Exploring. My local library found a yellowed copy for me to borrow. The setting is the vast Gobi Desert of Mongolia and Roy has been hunting animals and fossils. The largest sub-species of sika deer were found, hunted, and eaten. He called them miniature elk.
Roy Chapman Andrews hunted extensively with his lever action 250-3000 Savage rifle. He relied on accurate placement and rapid bullet upset to kill animals in their tracks. He favored the then popular 87 grain bullet for its accurasy. But Roy tackled Alaskan brown bears, African lions, and other dangerous beasts with his 6.5mm Mannlicher carbine. He never wrote about feeling under gunned.
Sometimes, I think we get too much information about various Premium bullets and forget about the time proven effectiveness of the older soft-nosed styles. The 87 grain bullet was the only bullet offered for many years. Yet this is the bullet that began its long history of lethal one shot stops.
TR
This photo of a sambar deer was sent to me by a hunter from New South Wales, Australia.
