IN THE ALASKA- YUKON GAMELANDS 



in the opposite direction. Believing that he 

 traveled a short distance going in this direction, 

 but not knowing for sure, as the foliage hid him, 

 I fired two more shots at about the place I 

 judged he would be if he had kept going. When 

 I went down I found him dying from the first 

 and only shot that hit him. 



The bullet struck him in the left side, passed 

 thru both shoulders smashing the humerus 

 bone of each shoulder at exactly the same relative 

 point and passed out through the hide of the 

 right shoulder. (The bullet was the regular 

 22o-grain soft point .30 U. S. '03.) The work 

 of this bullet was almost unbelievable. I would 

 have had doubts about its wonderful effect if I 

 hadn't seen it. That this bullet could go through 

 the two humerus bones of a big moose, contin- 

 uing through his body, tearing bones and flesh 

 so frightfully, and yet be able to remain intact 

 sufficiently to make its exit on the opposite side 

 thru a hole in the skin not larger than an inch 

 in size, was something very remarkable, I 

 thought. While I have killed grizzly bears, 

 moose and elk with this same shell before, and 

 never feared for the result, yet now that I had 

 before me this latest and most wonderful demon- 

 stration of its execution I am stronger for it 

 than ever before and, in the language of the 

 vernacular, that is "going some." 



I had been very fortunate in my shooting so 

 far, my first four animals being killed by a single 



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