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down, when once alarmed and in motion. He must, therefore, 
either be stalked silently from the leeward, or shot while in his 
“ yard.” 
His flesh is said to be inferior to that of the Moose, which is 
to beef, as venison to mutton. 
To those who are wholly inexpert with the rifle, and hopeless 
of using it effectively, a good double gun of fourteen, or—bet¬ 
ter—twelve guage, heavily loaded with powder, and with an 
Eley’s wire cartridge, green, of SSG mould shot, will prove a 
deadly implement. 
At seventy to a hundred yards, it will throw fourteen largo 
Duck-shot into a circle of a foot diameter; and, if compelled— 
which the Lord forbid!—to fight a Grizzly Bear at close quar¬ 
ters, I would rather use such a gun so loaded, than any firearm 
known. At ten paces it will make a ragged wound, as big as 
the mouth of a tumbler, and send its shot through and through. 
Note to Third Edition. — I may here remark—as my observations 
in the above pages, respecting the use of the short, heavy, large-bored 
fowling-piece stocked rifle, as opposed to the long, small-bored Ameri¬ 
can rifle, with the peaked heel plates, have called forth much comment 
and criticism from string-target shooters, gun-smiths, and other interest¬ 
ed parties—that I had the pleasure to find them fully corroborated and 
pronounced true by no less an authority than Thos. Adams, of Independ¬ 
ence, Missouri, famous as a thorough Rocky Mountain and Prairie hunt¬ 
er, and by Western hunters in general. Verbum sat! 
