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Oct. 18, 1913. 
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in inserting the cartridge in the Sharps rifle it 
was not pushed in far enough, there was a hitch 
in closing the breech-action, and precious time 
was lost. 
No further attention was paid to the humble 
coyote. By his strategy he had earned his good 
luck, as for that night at least, he had undis¬ 
puted sway over the pile of beef. 
After hastily dressing this bear, Kate was 
hunted up, mounted, and by midnight I was 
abed, well satisfied with the evening’s work. 
As my ranch had not been occupied until 
May 30. there had been little preparation for 
winter’s vegetables. Jay Bradley had gone to a 
ranch fifty miles to the north for a thousand 
pounds of potatoes, bought at four cents per 
pound, and was due the next morning. I ac¬ 
cordingly intercepted him the next forenoon, the 
wagon was driven by the carcasses, they were 
loaded into it and brought to the ranch. In passing- 
home we met my neighbor. Richard Ashworth, 
who soon after moved to his new ranch. He 
stopped and wondered at the wagon box full of 
grizzly bear. These bear were all weighed by a 
pair of ice scales; the old bears, 350 pounds 
each after dressing, equivalent to 475 pounds on 
foot, and the cub ioo pounds, equal to 135 pounds 
on foot. 
As it happened, Mr. Ashworth visited the 
U. S. surveyors’ camp, and told them of the re¬ 
sult of the firing the night before. As these 
surveyors were giving names to all streams for 
their maps, the name of this creek, at neighbor 
Ashworth’s suggestion, was changed from Rose 
to Four Bear Creek. In after years, when a 
postoffice was established in this neighborhood, 
the name Four Bears was given it in the pe¬ 
tition for its establishment. 
I have given this night's happenings thus 
in detail, as it was one of the most exciting ad¬ 
ventures I ever had, in an experience of more 
than seven years with this big bear, and required 
the exercise of the greatest coolness and judg¬ 
ment and knowledge of the habits of this fierce 
animal 
Had the last bear received any other wound, 
however fatal, except the paralyzing shot 
through the brain, there might have been not a 
little trouble that moonlit night, in which the 
bear’s partner might have taken a hand. 
True Cylinders. 
I have for many years held that true cylin¬ 
ders were the best for all round use, and as a 
constant reader of the Field, I believe I have 
become an adherent to this boring through see¬ 
ing it constantly advocated in your columns. 
Three seasons ago I was shooting at the end 
of the season where nearly all the shots, owing 
to the hilly nature of the ground, were thirty- 
five to forty-five yards, and I found my perform¬ 
ance very poor. It was the last shoot of the 
season, and cocks only, and I decided that day 
to test my guns for shooting. I had proper 
plates put up and all the necessary appliances 
for testing for patterns and penetration, and, as 
1 half expected, I found my barrel at forty yards 
woefully weak. With 33 grains 1 ounce No. 5 
shot, I could only put from seventy to ninety 
pellets in a 30-inch cirle at forty yards, and to 
quote my headkeeper’s remark, “The guns 'I was 
using were not fit to shoot game with.” It was 
the first season in thirty-six years that I had 
used one ounce of shot, and I was doing it for 
the convenience of my sons, and I learnt my 
lesson that to use one ounce of No. 5 in a gun 
bored to shoot 1 1/16 ounce of No. 6 was a 
great error, and one I decided should never be 
repeated, for to shoot at game at distances at 
which a gun gives only seventy to ninety pellets 
in a 30-inch circle is unsportsmanlike, unfair to 
one's host, and an abomination to the keepers. I 
took my gun to the makers, one of the best fi: ms 
in London, and was asked why I was using one 
ounce of No. 5 contrary to my custom, as the 
guns never were intended to shoot such a charge. 
They are cylinder barrels, and were new eleven 
years ago, and were shot for 1 1/16 ounce No 6. 
I had already tried the shooting with 1 1/16 
ounce No. 6, and still found the barrels very 
weak, and could only get from 100 to no pel’ets 
in the pattern, which is not sufficient. The 
makers, on examining the barrels, said that noth¬ 
ing could be done to improve them, as they were 
true cylinder, and there was nothing left in the 
barrel to correct them with. My experience led 
many of my friends to bring their guns to plate 
them, with the result that we found all who were 
using true cylinder barrels were getting very 
poor results at distances exceeding thirty-five 
yards. However well the shot may be placed, 
it is just chance at forty yards if it is a kill, 
owing to the weakness of the pattern. I admit 
