Camping and Hunting in the Shoshone 



nothing that runs can stand up long after 

 it has received a quartering shot i.e., 

 when the bullet is planted rather well back 

 in the ribs, about half way up, and ranges 

 forward to the opposite shoulder. Such a 

 shot, especially if the bullet is a fifty-cali- 

 bre, will drop anything ; but the point of 

 the heart may be pierced, or even the 

 lungs cut, and bears will often fight. 



We stalked two grizzlies in the " open " 

 one evening. They were busy turning 

 over stones, in order to get the grubs and 

 worms underneath, and when we managed 

 to get, unseen, within forty yards, at first 

 fire each received a bullet broadside behind 

 the shoulder ; but, seemingly none the 

 worse, they both turned down-hill, as bears 

 will when wounded, nine times out of ten, 

 and made for the ravine, whence they had 

 evidently come. This gave me a nice 

 open shot as they passed, and No. i rolled 

 over dead ; not so No. 2. Before he got 

 a hundred yards away I hit him three 

 times. My rifle was a fifty-calibre Bullard 

 repeater, the one I have used for years 

 one hundred grains of powder and a solid 

 ball. At the fourth shot he fell all of a 

 heap, seemingly dead. To save trouble 

 we laid hold of the first one, which lay 

 about seventy yards above the second, and 



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