AND OTHER HUNTING ADVENTURES. 179 



charge of powder and a solid bullet. The new Win- 

 chester express, T 5 T o-> with solid ball, is perhaps the 

 best in the market, all things considered. 



There are several methods of hunting the grizzly, 

 the most common being to kill an elk, and then watch 

 the carcass. Shots may frequently be obtained in 

 this way early in the morning or late in the evening, 

 and on bright moonlight nights it is best to watch all 

 night, for the immense size of the grizzly renders him 

 an easy target at short range even by moonlight. 

 Another method is to still-hunt him, the same as is 

 done with deer. This is perhaps the most sports- 

 manlike of all, and if a coulee or creek bottom be 

 selected where there are plenty of berries, or an 

 open, hilly, rocky country, where the bears are in 

 the habit of hunting for worms, or any good feeding- 

 ground where bear signs are plentiful, and due care 

 and caution be exercised, there is as good a chance 

 of success as by any other method. Many hunters 

 set guns with a cord running from the trigger to a 

 bait of fresh meat, and the muzzle of the gun point- 

 ing at the meat; others set large steel traps or dead- 

 falls. But such contrivances are never used by true 

 sportsmen. 



Game of any kind should always be pursued in a 

 fair, manly manner, and given due chance to pre- 

 serve its life if it is skillful enough to do so. If 

 captured, let it be by the superior skill, sagacity, or 

 endurance of the sportsman, not by traps which 

 close on it as it innocently and unsuspectingly seeks 

 its food. 



Grizzly bear hunting is unquestionably the grand- 

 est sport that our continent affords. The grizzly 



