I have withheld typing until I heard the peter capstick stuff. I just finished reading Death on the Dark Continent yesterday.

While what you are quoting might be true, the way you are quoting it is really implying something different than what is intended. Capstick does praise his shotgun. But, realize that he uses it on leopards and lions that are already wounded that he now has to get out of the brush.
he uses it only on thin skinned animals. Ones that are near death. and much of the time with lions, he uses the shotgun only to make the lion roar and give up his location and then shoots the wounded lion with a rifle.

It seemed that the only wounded animal captstick consistently used the shotgun on was a leopard. That was because he said there wassn't enough time to aim a rifle when a leopard pounced.

beej