My sentiments exactly.

But what about the Heyday of Annihilation just before the complete establishment of the self-contained cartridge? I seriously wonder about the number of elephants killed by muzzleloaders before, say 1890, muzzleloaders in the hands of both European hunters and the vast number of trade guns sold to Africans and in the hands of Arab slave traders, etc. It had to be a staggering number, of those collected and those lost. Unknown to be sure, and incalculable, but...?

Whatcha think?