His men are being dismantled all around him by thoughtfully placed rifle slugs from the Huks' dugout.
Abbie would buy a rifle slug in the back if he didn't.
For the whole journey he held a single jacketed rifle slug in his hand, rolling it back and forth between his fingers like a cigar.
I know that doesn't explain the rifle slug, but it's a possibility we can't ignore.
A rifle slug caught him in the ribs, cracking when it penetrated bone while passing into his chest.
Instead they would be in this land yacht, which seemed to have aluminum sides: a rifle slug could go through it like paper!
Someone pounded on the basement doors and fired some rounds at it, but the steel door held and wasn't penetrated by the rifle slugs.
It's tough to put a pistol slug through the chest of a crouching man, he thought; now, a rifle slug would have done the job.
Marlin was down, bleeding heavily where a rifle slug had shattered his left arm, but it could have been far worse.
The whine of a heavy rifle slug over their heads answered both questions.