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ing at long range. With the exception of the rams 

 shot on the eleventh and thirteenth of September, 

 I had killed nothing under three hundred yards. 

 Therefore much of the sport in making a careful 

 and proper stalk had been lost. 



My success with the white sheep had come only 

 with the hardest kind of work, but I now had five 

 really fine heads which I later increased to six, 

 my limit. I was quite satisfied with the measure- 

 ments of these horns along the curve, but had 

 hoped to have shot at least one which would tape 

 over 14 inches around the butts, although this 

 would be extreme, for the horns of the white sheep 

 do not grow so large as the common Rocky Moun- 

 tain variety. They are also much lighter in color. 

 I believe that large and perfect heads will be most 

 difficult to find a few years hence in this section, 

 and the sportsman who has ambitions in this direc- 

 tion would do well not to delay his trip too long; 

 for this range of hills is not over large, and unless 

 these sheep have some protection, it is only a ques- 

 tion of time before they will be almost entirely 

 killed off. 



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