BULLET AND SHOT 



possible moment) I use a '500 express, a solid 

 bullet from which, fired at the proper angle 

 through the forehead between the eyes, behind 

 the ear, or behind the horns, brains and kills him 

 instantaneously. 



In following a wounded bull, the one thing to 

 avoid, if possible, is the coming upon him so 

 suddenly, that, should the animal charge, the 

 sportsman would have no time to use his rifle. 



A bison charges at very high speed, and, unless 

 he can be seen at some little distance, has the 

 game all in his own hands so far as the sports- 

 man's ability to defend himself is concerned. 



Considering that a wounded bison traverses the 

 densest cover which it can find, and that its pur- 

 suers cannot possibly tell whether it is not travel- 

 ling rapidly with the intention of holding on for 

 a long distance ; or whether, on the other hand, 

 it is not hidden in some thicket close by, ready 

 to rush down upon them with lowered horns the 

 moment they shall have approached within a few 

 yards, caution in following up a wounded beast 

 is highly advisable. 



If the forest be fairly open, so that the sports- 

 man can see an animal at a distance of, say, twenty- 

 five yards, he can, and should, press on without 

 loss of time ; but when the tracks lead through 

 places such as thickets of young bamboo or long 

 grass in which even so large an animal as a bison 

 would be invisible at a few yards' distance, great 

 circumspection is necessary, and the best plan is 

 for the sportsman to keep causing his men to climb 



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