Nights with the Grizzlies 



a hundred miles after a special bear and was 

 repaid by only one shot at long range, and 

 no bear. 



The next day Rush and McDevitt skinned 

 and packed in the hides and fat of the two 

 grizzlies. The weighing apparatus was 

 taken along, and the "calf-killer" was found 

 to weigh 405 pounds after being dressed six- 

 teen hours, the other something less. The 

 black bear was not weighed, but it is pre- 

 sumed he weighed about the average of this 

 species (175 pounds) in life. 



The rifle employed is the same used for 

 several years, a 45-caliber Sharps, with which 

 I have killed thirty-eight of these bears, of 

 which number twenty-two were killed with 

 a single shot each, using no grains C. 

 & H. No. 6, and a 340-grain express-ball. 

 As I have before stated, the rise of its tra- 

 jectory is 7.01 inches in 200 yards, an average 

 of about twenty shots through a trajectory 

 range. Previously I had used a 44-caliber 

 Sharps, with a bottle-neck shell holding 100 

 to 105 grains of the same powder with 

 which a good many bears had been killed. 

 No especial ball has been determined on as 

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