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very vascular area below his diaphragm. 
So we trailed him slowly. Just at nightfall 
we found him, not more than a quarter of 
a mile from the spot where he started. 
He was cold and stiff. An extensive wound 
of his liver and vena cava, resulting from 
the sharp barbs of the arrow, had fin¬ 
ished him. \ 
Mr. Compton on this same trip made a 
beautiful shot at a running deer—we star¬ 
tled a forked horn, and as he bounded 
down a steep hillside, Compton caught him 
on the fly. 
Just as the deer turned in its course to 
enter the woods, at a distance of 65 or 75 
yards, the arrow hit him in the short ribs. 
It ranged forward and came out behind 
the opposite shoulder. 
The arrow flew with great power and 
speed so that at its point of exit, the shaft 
projected a foot beyond the body of the 
deer. Thus as the animal dashed through 
the undergrowth the shaft was broken off 
short, leaving nothing but its feathers visible. 
We heard him crashing dowfl the canyon 
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beauty of the flying arrow. On one occa¬ 
sion I missed a little buck at 30 yards, be¬ 
cause I had to shoot kneeling, a position we 
Tiad not practiced. 
Besides wounding a forked horn at 80 
yards with an arrow which traversed his 
neck above the vertebra, but doing no harm, 
I shot and killed a spike buck at 45 yards. 
We sighted him broadside on. As he gave 
his first startled leap I let drive with a very 
broad barbed arrow! The hum of the 
bowstring, the whirr of the feathered shaft 
and the vicious "chuck” of the strike, were 
music to my ears. 
The deer gave a little grunt and like a 
flash he whirled about and seemed to trip 
and roll over in the manzanita brush. With 
a rattle and crash he regained the other side 
where we let fly another arrow at him. My 
first shaft was driven half its length in 
his body, and with great difficulty he made 
his way up the wooded hillside. 
We knew that he could not run far, be- 
•cause an arrow kept in motion is very 
painful and because his wound was in the 
but knew that he was fatally wounded. An 
hour later, about two hundred yards down 
the gulch, we found him crumpled up 
against a clump of young madrone trees. 
His pleural and pencardial cavities were 
full of blood and death must have super¬ 
vened within a few minutes. 
This was a striking example of good 
luck, good archery, and good judgment of 
distance. 
However, Mr. Compton is no novice at 
the sport, having hunted all his life, either 
with the rifle or the bow. With the latter, 
he has killed all sorts of game: quail, 
prairie chickens, ducks on the wing, wild 
turkey, rabbits, squirrels, ground hogs, 
’coons, badgers, antelope, deer and elk, all 
have fallen beneath his deadly shafts. 
His favorite bow, noted for its brilliant 
cast, pulls 65 pounds. It is light enough for 
small game and heavy enough for large. 
He calls it “Wolf Voice”—after an old 
Sioux Chief. Another bow, pulling 80 
pounds, which few men can shoot, he calls 
“Old Horrible.” It could drive an arrow 
through a buffalo. 
Of course it takes a great deal of prac¬ 
tice before one can begin to shoot the bow 
with any degree of proficiency, but it is 
surprising what can be done with this noble 
old weapon where patience and careful 
methods of hunting are used. 
Although its glory has long since been 
eclipsed by firearms, the long bow can still 
be used successfully in the chase, by those 
who like a touch of archaic romance mixed 
with their sport. 
GUNS, 
jAmmunition, Hunting Cloth¬ 
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