Hunting at High Altitudes 



enough, on reaching the brow of the little hill, 

 there the two were. One stood with his tail toward 

 me, and the other broadside on, but with his rump 

 behind the head of the other. Pulling the trigger 

 at the one standing broadside on, the other one 

 fell, having been hit a raking shot in the loins and 

 being broken down. I went up to him and killed 

 him with two shots, one with the 275, and the 

 other with the 36ograin ball. The first two shots 

 had dropped successively and had broken the leg 

 in two places, the lower part of the thigh and 

 below the knee. The shot in the thigh had caused 

 a bad wound. A trial shot with the 36o-grain ball 

 made a hole on entering the cavity of three inches 

 diameter. The 275-grain ball would have killed 

 him as quickly, as it badly shattered the breast 

 bone and reached the heart. I took out the tender- 

 loins and returned to camp for dinner. The wind 

 was very cold, and I remained in camp during the 

 evening and loaded about eighty rifle shells. The 

 bull elk killed the day before had only recently 

 dropped his horns, as had his companion. Three 

 young bulls that I had seen lately several times had 

 not dropped their horns. 50 I concluded from this 

 that April 15 was about the time when they lose 

 them. 



The following day I hunted around the base of 

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