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One day I saw three men fire from twelve to 

 sixteen shots at a small grizzly bear on a moun- 

 tain-side only a short distance away. That 

 evening these men sincerely asserted that he 

 must have weighed at least a ton — when he 

 probably did not weigh more than five hundred 

 pounds — and that though they shot him full 

 of lead, he refused to die. I doubt whether a 

 single one of their shots hit the grizzly. Most 

 of the shots went wild, and some of them hit a 

 rocky cliff about two hundred yards distant 

 and fifty or sixty feet higher than the bear. At 

 another time I saw a hunter kill four huge griz- 

 zly bears with just four successive shots. Of 

 course he knew the vital point at which to aim, 

 was a good shot, and had perfect self-control 

 during the few seconds of shooting. 



As a rule, the grizzly does not kill cattle or 

 big game. There were buffalo-killing grizzlies, 

 and an occasional one now kills cattle. These 

 killers commonly slay right and left, often kill- 

 ing a dozen head in a short time, but they do 

 not often kill big game. I have a number of 

 times seen elk, deer, and mountain sheep feed- 



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