. Camps in the Rockies [microform] : being a narrative of life on the frontier, and sport in the Rocky Mountains, with an account of the cattle ranches of the West. Camping; Hunting; Camping; Chasse. wsssm 414 Appendix,. my own killing. It was curious to observe how singularly close the two separate horns always lay to each other. Of twenty-six very big pair I counted, only one pair was further apart than forty or fifty yards. Wapiti die hard. I remember a very big old bull I once opened fire on at a distance of some 250 yards. He was standing looking at me broadside on, when he received my fi
. Camps in the Rockies [microform] : being a narrative of life on the frontier, and sport in the Rocky Mountains, with an account of the cattle ranches of the West. Camping; Hunting; Camping; Chasse. wsssm 414 Appendix,. my own killing. It was curious to observe how singularly close the two separate horns always lay to each other. Of twenty-six very big pair I counted, only one pair was further apart than forty or fifty yards. Wapiti die hard. I remember a very big old bull I once opened fire on at a distance of some 250 yards. He was standing looking at me broadside on, when he received my first two bullets. As the distance was somewhat great, and not seeing the slightest sign that I hit him, I gave him, while yet standing perfectly motionless, two more. Port, who happened to be with me at the time, cried " Shoot! shoot! Don't you see you have missed ; I felt sure this was not the case, for I had taken careful aim, and my old "trail stopper " was good for that distance. Before I had time to follow his advice the stag " broke together " precisely in the manner 1 have described. When we came up to him we found that Port's big hand covered my four bullet-holes. No other deer that I know would act in this manner, but no other stag proper approaches the Wapiti in size. If not well hit he will carry ofi" an enormous amount of lead. I have put as many as fourteen Express •500-bore bullets into one, and in the end only got him by a mere fluke. Some authors on the Wapiti have endowed him with trucculent vicious- ness, maintaining that a wounded Wapiti will charge you. Of this I never came across the slightest evidence. Owing to carelessness I once got a slight prod while I was in the act of severing the spinal cord of a beast at his last gasp. It was only a spasmodic movement. Respecting their fighting propensities among themselves, I frequently witnessed during whistling time battles between old bulls, waged with a deadly fury quite
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