CHAPTER XIX 



A PANORAMIC GRIZZLY-BEAR HUNT 



Luck as a Factor in Bear Hunting — An Exhausting Climb — A Silver- 

 Tip Sighted— Mr. Phillips and Mack Run for it— A Summit Stroll 

 Between the Acts — The Ball Opens — A Long Chase — Snap-Shots 

 Only, and at Long Range — A Good Long Shot — Mack's Fusillades 

 — A Foot-Shot Bear, and ChafF for the Victors. 



It is Strange how luck works out things for hunters. 



If we had had no mountain sheep specimens to finish 

 on the forenoon of September 23d, and had gone up the 

 mountain some hours earlier, it is reasonably certain that 

 we would have missed seeing what we saw later on that 

 eventful day. 



Beyond question, luck has much to do with the net 

 results in hunting, and particularly in the pursuit of the 

 grizzly. Of course, after all has been said, it is the strong 

 lungs and straight powder that wins ; but at the same time 

 I pity any hunter who is prone to be unlucky. Only 

 yesterday a noted grizzly-bear hunter said to me, " We 

 saw twenty-one grizzly bears on that trip, and we hunted 

 hard, but we never got a shot! " When I said, " Why, 

 on earth? " he answered, with a fatalistic shrug, " Mostly 

 on account of the tangle of rank, snow-dragged willow 

 brush on the slides where the bears fed. It always took 

 so long to fight our way up to where a bear was feeding 



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