Nights with the Grizzlies 
In the process of skinning the bear, it was 
found that this was not the first encounter he 
had had with mankind. In the muscles of 
the neck, and of the right fore leg above the 
elbow and next to the bone, were found four 
rifle-balls, and a large fragment of another 
ball. The wounds had healed up, and each 
ball was inclosed in a sac with the appear- 
ance of having been there several years: 
one 42-caliber 205-grain lead ball lay in 
the muscles of the neck, another of same cali- 
ber and weight, two 50-caliber 375-grain lead 
balls, and the large flattened fragment of a 
ball were in the muscles of one fore leg next 
to the bone. The 42-caliber balls I judged 
were fired from a ’66 model, 44-caliber 
Winchester, and as all the balls were little 
battered and did not shatter the bone, they 
must have been fired from a rim-fire car- 
tridge; all the balls were cannelured. 
The bear I was after when this one was 
stumbled on, took to his heels and dis- 
appeared rapidly over the mountain after 
the second shot. We went for the first one 
seen, but the dogs getting the wind of him, 
and having a taste of bear’s blood, igno- 
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