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but two peccaries, using but one cartridge for each ; they 

 were close up. My experiences with cougar have already 

 been narrated. At wolves and coyotes I have generally 

 had to take running shots at very long range, and I have 

 shot but two one of each for fifty cartridges. Blacktail 

 deer I have generally shot at about ninety yards, at an ex- 

 penditure of about four cartridges apiece. Whitetail I 

 have killed at shorter range; but the shots were generally 

 running, often taken under difficult circumstances, so that 

 my expenditure of cartridges was rather larger. Ante- 

 lope, on the other hand, I have on the average shot at a lit- 

 tle short of 150 yards, and they have cost me about nine 

 cartridges apiece. This, of course, as I have explained 

 above, does not mean that I have missed eight out of nine 

 antelope, for often the entire nine cartridges would be 

 spent at an antelope which I eventually got. It merely 

 means that, counting all the shots of every description 

 fired at antelope, I had one head to show for each nine 

 cartridges expended. 



Thus, the first antelope I shot in 1893 cost me ten 

 cartridges, of which three hit him, while the seven that 

 missed were fired at over 400 yards' distance while he was 

 running. We saw him while we were with the wagon. 

 As we had many miles to go before sunset, we cared 

 nothing about frightening other game, and, as we had 

 no fresh meat, it was worth while to take some chances 

 to procure it. When I first fired, the prongbuck had al- 

 ready been shot at and was in full flight. He was beyond 

 all reasonable range, but some of our bullets went over 

 him and he began to turn. By running to one side I got 



