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Thirty or forty shots were fired. The bear escaped. 

 A hunter took up the trail and the following day 

 ran down the bear and killed him. He carried no 

 wounds except the one from the shot fired by this 

 hunter. He weighed perhaps five hundred pounds. 



But the story of the shooting as told by one of 

 the first three hunters was something like this: 

 **We came upon the largest grizzly that I had ever 

 seen. He must have weighed fifteen hundred pounds 

 or more. He was busy digging in an opening and 

 did n't see us until we opened on him at short 

 range. As we had time, we aimed carefully, and each 

 of us got in several shots before he reached the 

 woods. He ran with as much strength as if nothing 

 had happened ; yet we simply filled him full of lead 

 — made a regular lead mine of him." 



The grizzly is not an exceedingly difficult animal 

 to kill if shot in a vital spot — in the upper part of 

 the heart, in the brain, or through the centre of the 

 shoulder into the spine. Hunters too often fire 

 aimlessly, or become so frightened that they do not 

 even succeed in hitting the bear, though firing shot 

 after shot in his general direction. 



William H. Wright once killed five bears with 

 five shots in rapid succession. I was with a hunter 



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