

The Antelope-Goat of the Pacific Slope. 103 



Putting it into other words, this table reads as follows: If you 

 under-estimate the distance and use the looyds. sight at a beast 

 which is really 2ooyds. off, the '256 Mannlicher bullet will strike 

 about 8in., while the '500 Express will strike i8in., too low. If you 

 under-estimate the distance still more, and use the looyds. sight at 

 a beast which is really 3Ooyds. off, the Mannlicher will strike 27^11. 

 too low, while the '500 Express will strike no less than 5ft. 6J[in. 

 too low. If you under-estimate the distance not quite so much, and 

 use the 2Ooyds. sight at a beast which is really 3ooyds. off, the 

 Mannlicher will strike i5in. too low, while the Express will be 

 3ft. 3^in. too low, differences which will turn an otherwise effective 

 shot into a miss.* 



After brittling my two victims, I had a long afternoon left for 

 another stalk, and by crossing a steep " divide," or ridge, I hoped 

 to strike a fresh band not alarmed by our fusillade. Two hours' 

 stiff climb took me to the place, another vast amphitheatre-shaped 

 semicircle of rocks, with a lake or two in the arena, and numerous 

 goat trails up and down the precipitous slopes. My glasses soon 

 betrayed to me, on the opposite side of the amphitheatre, two goat 

 feeding apparently on rock and snow, for there was not a trace of 

 vegetation visible to me. The basin was about a mile and a half 

 in diameter, and the animals were about half-way up, the most 

 awkward place for them to be in. As a rule, it is of course wiser 

 to approach all mountain game from above, and the further 

 advantage attached to a stalk along the ridge of the semicircle 

 i.e., of having a chance of discovering another goat on the off-side 

 of the slope decided my course. 



Apparently the distance was not more than a mile and a half, 

 but it took me a couple of hours to do it, every foot of the way 

 being downright climbing, now straddling huge slabs standing on 



These details, which I think many a sportsman will find of piactica use, 

 have been worked out by Sir Kdmund Loder, Bart., and Hon. T. F. Fremantle, 

 two experts, whose practical as well as theoretical knowledge is probably 

 unequalled. The latter's "Notes on the Rifle" should be read by every sports- 

 man interested in or using the new small bores. 



