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.kept watching everywhere for bears. 
While cooking or chopping wood in 
camp he risked burning hio fingers or 
chopping his toes for the sake of keep- 
ing an eye out for bear. That is the 
way to do it. 
You cannot find your bear as you do 
a duck or a goose. He has no accus- 
tomed haunts. He is a wanderer and 
you see him where he is; on the bars, 
in the timber, in the brush, along the 
sloughs, on the snow, crossing the gla- 
ciers. Or you may not see one at all. 
It matters little to him where he goes 
and your game is to see him first. To 
be sure the Captain has been running a 
trap line in that locality for fifteen years 
and knows it like I know my own back- 
yard. Therefore, it is enough for me to 
say that my successes have been entirely 
due to him. 
Risk of the Modern Hunter 
T HE modern rifle has virtually re- 
moved all danger in hunting grizzly 
bear. If one can shoot straight, 
knows where to strike, and has enough 
common sense to refrain from following 
a wounded grizzly into dense brush there 
is no danger. But those three things 
he- must know. 
The killing power of the modern rifle 
has also materially reduced the sport and 
excitement. The dangers faced by the 
old hunters, who were armed with flint- 
locks, or percussion cap rifles, are not 
for us. To Lewis and Clark, and the 
trappers who followed in the wake of 
their memorable journey across the con- 
tinent, the grizzly bear was a fearsome 
beast. This was because the inferior 
weapons of early days had failed to im- 
press the bear family that they were a 
serious menace. 
The hunter of today may read the 
thrilling adventures of James Capen 
Adams, John Glass, old Jim Baker and 
Jim Bridger, but their adventures are 
not for him. 
The modern rifle is ample in power, 
velocity and accuracy for anv and all 
game anywhere in the world. For sport- 
ing purposes further development is un- 
necessary. The cartridges now obtain- 
able will kill off the game fast enough. 
The Grizzly of Lewis and Clark 
P RIOR to the Lewis and Clark expe- 
dition (1804-6) but little was known 
of the grizzly bear. Those explor- 
ers, and others following them, referred 
to the grizzly as the white bear. Ser- 
geant Gass, under date of April 29, 1805, 
.says in his journal, “Captain Lewis, and 
one of the men, traveled some distance 
by land and killed a white bear. The 
natives call them white, but they are 
more of a brown gray.” 
As this incident is the first authentic 
record of the killing of a grizzly by a 
white man, it may be well to reproduce 
the description of it given by Lewis and 
Glark. 
“Captain Lewis, who was on the shore 
with ore hunter, met about eight o’clock 
two white bears. Of the strength and 
ferocity of this animal the Indians had 
given us dreadful accounts. They never 
attack him but in parties of six or eight 
persons, and even then are often defeated 
with a loss of one or more of their party. 
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“ Rush me at Camp here, a Colt .22 caliber Automatic Target Pistol. My guide showed 
me the .38 caliber Automatic which he carries, but as I am just 'breaking in,' advises me 
to gel the small caliber — a great little gun for all-round purposes.” 
EXTRACT FROM SPORTSMAN'S LETTER TO A FRIEND 
OLT’S 
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FIREARMS 
Sportsmen complete their equip- 
ment for the woods by packing a 
Colt Automatic Pistol or Colt 
Revolver in their kit. 
They know that the name COLT 
is their guarantee of dependabil- 
ity, and that for protection and 
for target practice, a pocket gun 
comes in mighty handy. 
Many guides recommend a Colt 
Automatic .38 as the best all- 
’ round gun for personal use, while 
others, as was the case in the illus- 
tration above, tell sportsmen that 
they will find a Colt .22 calibre 
Automatic as shown below, the 
finest and handiest little weapon 
because it shoots the easily ob- 
tainable and inexpensive 
.22 long rifle cartridges. 
COLT’S PATENT FIRE ARMS MFG. CO., 
HARTFORD, CONN. 
MANUFACTURERS OF 
Colt’s Revolvers Colt’s Automatic Pistols 
Colt’s (Browning) Automatic Colt’s (Browning) Automatic 
Machine Guns Machine Rifles 
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