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Elephant gun
Firearm of large caliber for hunting elephant and other large game / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
For other uses, see Elephant gun (disambiguation).
An elephant gun is a large caliber gun, rifled or smoothbore, originally developed for use by big-game hunters for elephant and other large game. Elephant guns were black powder muzzle-loaders at first, then black powder express rifles, then later used smokeless powder cartridges.
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