BULLETS AND THEIR BILLETS 



antiseptic surgery, but one is glad now 

 to substitute less heroic treatment, with 

 the aid of a simple outfit of drugs and 

 bandages. 



Shots at moving animals over two 

 hundred yards away are seldom effec- 

 tive, yet I have seen three bullets out of 

 four hit a galloping caribou at two 

 hundred and fifty yards. None were 

 immediately fatal ; it was not till the last 

 was fired that the animal showed signs 

 of being struck. 



A note of satisfaction was discernible 

 in the voice of a man who summed up 

 his autumn shooting thus, "One very 

 large caribou, but so old that the horns 

 had gone back, killed him off-hand 

 while moving through the trees, sight 

 at three hundred yards, broke his 

 neck, carried the rifle a hundred and 

 fifty miles and only pulled trigger 

 once." Well enough, but perhaps he 

 would have been entitled to a higher 

 place in regard had he refused so doubt- 

 ful a chance. 



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