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FOREST AND STREAM 
September, 1920 
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killed the ram, but the slide rock slipped 
under my feet just as I shot, and I went 
down with it on the snow. 
There was a rocky gulch at the base 
of the snow bank, and, as my speed down 
the snow was increasing every moment, 
the situation became alarming, especially 
as the large wing calks in the heels of 
my shoes did not afford any resistance. 
I suddenly recalled the reason for an 
old Western hunter’s objection to a rub- 
ber butt plate on a rifle stock. One with 
a steel butt plate, he said, could be thrust 
into the snow, ice and slide rock and a 
fall of the hunter often prevented. A 
rubber butt plate, if thus used, may break 
and will not cut in as a steel one. 
Fortunately my rifle had a steel butt 
plate, and I thrust the lower end of the 
stock down into the snow with all my 
strength. It cut in far enough to check 
my fall, and at the second thrust stopped 
me. I remained there until an Indian cut 
foot-holds in the snow with his axe that 
enabled me to return to a place of safety. 
Thrusting the muzzle of the rifle into the 
ice would have been a more effective way 
of arresting my fall, and it may seem 
strange that I did not think of that, but 
the salutary habit of avoiding the com- 
mission of any act that might obstruct 
the muzzle of a gun barrel with dirt, 
snow or similar substances is so firmly 
fixed in my mind that using a rifle barrel 
as an alpenstock did not occur to me. 
I T would have been far better sport to 
have killed one ram each from those 
four and then spent a fdw days in 
trying to secure a better one, but our 
head-guide was such an old pessimist, and 
had been so doubtful of his ability to 
locate any rams at all, that we decided 
to get them while we could. And we 
were not unmindful of the fact that, even 
where mountain sheep are plentiful, the 
ranges where the big rams may be found 
are within a small compass. A hunter, 
who is not familiar with the localities 
which they are accustomed to use, is at 
a great disadvantage. For that reason 
guides are a great help, even where sheep 
are fairly plentiful, but neither of our 
guides knew anything about that range 
as a hunting ground for rams, as their 
knowledge of it was limited to hunting 
ground-hogs at the lower levels. 
After removing the heads and capes 
from the rams, and cutting out such meat 
as could be carried back to the horses, 
we went up on the mountain to rest a bit. 
Now that we had killed our legal limit 
many rams were seen. One had an es- 
pecially fine head. In all we saw eigh- 
teen rams that day, as we seemed to have 
struck their range, and I regretted hav- 
ing killed two at one time, for it deprived 
me of the sport of another stalk and the 
opportunity for a better head. 
Four rams lay hot over five hundred 
yards from us while we skinned our rams 
and four more crossed the sky line at 
about the same distance. Just as we were 
about to quit our resting place a young 
ram, probably five years old, came across 
the mountain side directly towards us. 
The wind and the ram’s curiosity were in 
our favor, and he approached to within 
fifty feet. At times he raised his head 
and looked at us ; then lowered to feed. 
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