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 I10. 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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