Dog Sledging in the North 



nate and exciting pieces of shooting that has 

 occurred in my experience. I was shooting at 

 that time a Httle double rifle (.450-120-375 

 solid bullet), which had been made for me by 

 Holland & Holland, and which was fitted with 

 one of my conical sights. 



Before I was within fifty yards of the end 

 of the muskeg, I saw one of the moose dash 

 across it, about 150 yards away. I fired quick- 

 ly, and in much the same way that I would 

 shoot at a jacksnipe which had been flushed in 

 some thicket ; but had the satisfaction of see- 

 ing the animal lurch heavily forward as he 

 went out of sight into the timber. Almost 

 immediately, and before I had time to reload, 

 the second moose followed. I gave him the 

 other barrel, but I did not know until after- 

 ward that he was hit. In fact, it was hard to 

 get a bullet through the timber. I reloaded 

 quickly, and ran forward to get to the opening; 

 but before I reached it, the third moose passed 

 in immediately behind the others, I again 

 shot quickly, and felt that I had probably hit 

 him. By running on rapidly I reached the 

 edge of the opening in time to intercept the 

 fourth moose. As he came into the opening I 

 got a good shot at him, not over eighty yards 



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