THE GUN AT HOME AND ABROAD 
feature of a perfect bifurcation on both horns. In the following year my 
brother brought up a horse and took it to the railway, a distance of 350 
miles, and it is now in my collection. This great collection of horns afforded 
a fine view of what antlers wapiti could grow and what was the average 
size of the horns and it showed that even at this date, when there were many 
finer ones, examples over 54 inches were rare. 
The head which is said to be the longest and widest is the specimen 
in the possession of Mr Sheard, of Tacoma, Washington, and of which 
he sends me a photo. It is said to be 69 inches long and 70 inches wide. 
It is not massive nor are the points good, and judges of horns would hardly 
give it the place of honour amongst the best trophies. Still, it is a very 
remarkable head, and the more so as it came from the Olympic Mountains 
in Washington, a country that does not, as a rule, produce the best class of 
wapiti. Another wonderful head which I have not seen is the 66J-inch head 
in the Montana Armoury. It is said to possess twenty -one points, but this 
must be an error, as Mr Thompson Seton’s figure of it (“ Life Histories 
of Northern Animals,* * p. 58) only shows thirteen points. The next longest 
is the fine head of 64 inches, owned by Messrs Shoverling, Daly and Gales, 
the New York gunmakers, and this is certainly one of the six best I have 
seen. 
I think that the three best wapiti head I have personally inspected are 
the twenty-one pointer, 54f-inch head belonging to Mr W. A. Tulloch, 
the 60 f -inch head with twelve points belonging to Mr W. Baillie Grohmann, 
and the 59 -inch thirteen pointer now in my possession and formerly in 
the collection of Viscount Powerscourt. All these three are absolutely ideal 
specimens with which no fault can be found. My specimen is perhaps the 
heaviest and roughest, it weighs over 50 lb., and the coronet is 16 J inches, 
whilst Mr Tulloch *s twenty -point head is of ideal form with very sharp 
points and fine rough horns. It is not possible to say which is the best 
because each would have its own group of admirers.* 
I think that the most massive head I have seen is the great head killed 
by my late friend, Andrew Williamson, in Colorado. It has not yet been 
publicly exhibited but I hope that it will be seen in London in 1915. Heads 
with more than sixteen points are rare. There are the bifurcated head of 
twenty points in my possession and the twenty pointer belonging to Mr 
• Under the auspices of Country Life we are arranging a series of the best big game heads in the world. Last year 
we had a successful little exhibition of British deer heads, and this year we have had one of African heads. In 1915 it is 
hoped that the finest examples of American game will be shown, and that the wapiti heads will furnish an interesting 
feature. — J. G. M. 
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