. The Big game of North America [microform] : its habits, habitat, haunts, and characteristics : how, when, and where to hunt it. Hunting; Hunting; Big game hunting; Big game hunting; Chasse; Chasse; Chasse au gros gibier; Chasse au gros gibier. kit Iw lie lie Tin; <;i;i//. iikaij. 2(){) is woundt'd or not, he will almost invariably tiiiii dowiiliill and try to get away, and in doing ho, often nejuiy tnnibles over his antagonist, wlio fancies the liear is charging at him, when his sole intention is to get away as soon as pos- sible, if wonnded, he lias ii i)ecn]iarly exasi)eniting way of
. The Big game of North America [microform] : its habits, habitat, haunts, and characteristics : how, when, and where to hunt it. Hunting; Hunting; Big game hunting; Big game hunting; Chasse; Chasse; Chasse au gros gibier; Chasse au gros gibier. kit Iw lie lie Tin; <;i;i//. iikaij. 2(){) is woundt'd or not, he will almost invariably tiiiii dowiiliill and try to get away, and in doing ho, often nejuiy tnnibles over his antagonist, wlio fancies the liear is charging at him, when his sole intention is to get away as soon as pos- sible, if wonnded, he lias ii i)ecn]iarly exasi)eniting way of rolling over and over, like a ball, at great pace, roaring all the time. It is not easy to make a dead-shot at this soi't of a bonnding foot-ball, so a greenhorn is a])t to wait, thinking that his ]5ear is mortally wounded, whereas, in fact, he may be only slightly scratched, and he will con- tinue his rotary movement till he strikes a bit of more level ground, and then rapidly disajipear. 1 nnght say here, in passing, that it is always better, and certainly safei', to stalk the (liiz/ly from al)ove. The oidy Bear that deliberately charged me, charged in the way I have described. 1 was planted in the middle of the gully as he was conung (h)wn, and seeing me in the way, and cutting oil" his retreat, he charged for all he was worth. Still, making, as I do, an allowance for the hereditary growth of timidity in the Bear, his great strength and tenacity of life will always render him an opponent to be attacketl carefully. Vou do not realize wliat that strength is till you see his magniticent muscular develoinnent when stripped of his skin. Kemove his skin, and he is start- lingly, hoiridly, like a dead man. His strength is enor- mous. A splendid short-horned bull, that had been imported, at great cost, by a cattle-raiser on Rock Creek, Montana, a few years ago, was found with its neck broken but a week aftrr its arrival, and the tracks of a large Bear showed who had done the m
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