following shots are at a rapidly moving target. 

 Sometimes a party of cowboys will surprise a coyote 

 in some narrow wash-out, or depression, and get very 

 close to him before they are discovered. In these 

 cases the cowboys' pistols come Into action, and the 

 coyote is represented by an indistinct grey streak 

 headed for the horizon. The prairie-wolf is very 

 fleet of foot. When cattle ranches grew common in 

 the West, a bounty was put on wolves by the different 

 states. Now-a-days, ranchmen often offer an extra 

 bounty, and the " wolvers " as professional wolf- 

 hunters are called, sometimes make a fair living. 

 But the interest in wolf-hunting is largely due to the 

 exciting rides across the sage-brush flats, and the 

 long shots at wolves, where the bullets throw up 

 white puffs of alkali dust. 



The big timber wolf ranges all over the West ; but 

 as most of the country they roam in is brushy or moun- 

 tainous, hunting them would be a difficult matter. 



In the coyote country one is liable to see the 

 sage-hen. This bird is the largest member of the 

 grouse family found in America. They offer splendid 

 shots to the sportsman armed v^th a smal' 

 calibre rifle, and due to their even 

 they are sometimes killed on the 

 wing by exper 



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are the most satisfactory. The weight of eunmuni- 



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