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and one hunter told me he had killed a bull which 

 when cut open was found to have a "32 bullet 

 embedded in its heart. Like red deer, even when 

 shot right through the heart they seldom drop at 

 once ; the same may be said of the pronghorn ante- 

 lope. I am inclined to think that a Rigby "350 

 would be the best weapon, but if a '275 is used, 

 soft-nosed bullets without splits are the best. 



In either of the above-mentioned cases a good 

 Scotch collie would have been invaluable ; but alas ! 

 Scotch collies were unknown and my bulls were 

 lost. However careful a man is, accidents of this 

 sort are bound to occur in hunting, and I am 

 confident that many bulls are lost for want of a 

 good dog. It is against the law in Wyoming to 

 hunt with dogs, but this would not apply were the 

 tracker on a leash, and any shepherd's dog could 

 bay a wounded beast, which is all that is needed. 



We were somewhat unlucky, too, in our choice 

 of a year for hunting wapiti. The tail end of the 

 winter of 1905 had been very severe, indeed there 

 were four feet of snow on all the flats and the 

 spring was unusually late. The summer was ex- 

 ceptionally good, and though this came too late to 

 enable the bulls to grow big heads it gave them 

 heavy bodies. None of the heads which I saw in 

 1906 were really good ; in nearly every case the 

 tops dwindled away to nothing. The bulls we 

 killed were as good as any obtained and they were 

 not by any means remarkable, though my second 



