Hunting in the Cattle Country- 

 horn and white goats, where the animals shot 

 at were mostly of large size and usually sta- 

 tionary, and where the mountainous or wooded 

 country gave chance for a close approach, the 

 average distance at which I have killed the 

 game has been eighty yards, and the average 

 number of cartridges expended per head slain 

 three: one of these representing the death 

 shot and the others standing either for misses 

 outright, of which there were not very many, 

 or else for wounding game which escaped, or 

 which I afterward overtook, or for stopping 

 cripples or charging beasts. I have killed but 

 one cougar and two peccaries, using but one 

 cartridge for each ; all three were close up. 

 At wolves and coyotes I have generally had to 

 take running shots at very long range, and I 

 have killed but two for fifty cartridges. Black- 

 tail deer I have generally shot at about ninety 

 yards, at an expenditure of about four car- 

 tridges apiece. Whitetail I have killed at 

 shorter range; but the shots were generally 

 running, often taken under difficult circum- 

 stances, so that my expenditure of cartridges 

 was rather larger. Antelope, on the other hand, 

 I have on the average shot at a little short 

 of 1 50 yards, and they have cost me about nine 



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