Guns and gunning . ecome very good shots. Ifthe hunter is well concealed, he can with favorableconditions, sometimes call a fox by imitating thesqueak of a rodent. Calling, by imitating the squeak of a field mouse,can be successfully practiced on owls as well as foxes. The coyote, or prairie-wolf, is another animalthat has withstood the advance of , poison and guns have been tried, and yetthe weird call of this prairie-wolf still echoes amongthe Western foot-hills. The coyote is always found in fairly opencountry, and is a most interesting animal to ordinary condit
Guns and gunning . ecome very good shots. Ifthe hunter is well concealed, he can with favorableconditions, sometimes call a fox by imitating thesqueak of a rodent. Calling, by imitating the squeak of a field mouse,can be successfully practiced on owls as well as foxes. The coyote, or prairie-wolf, is another animalthat has withstood the advance of , poison and guns have been tried, and yetthe weird call of this prairie-wolf still echoes amongthe Western foot-hills. The coyote is always found in fairly opencountry, and is a most interesting animal to ordinary conditions they are seldom killed withthe rifle; but after heavy snows, and when they areoverfed, they sometimes fall a prey to the still-hunter. Besides holding his own on the Western plains,the coyote has enlarged his range. In NorthernBritish Columbia, and the far West, they are found,[ where ten years ago they were unknown. Most ofthe shots in wolf hunting are at long range,and of course if the first is a miss, the28. following shots are at a rapidly moving a party of cowboys will surprise a coyotein some narrow wash-out, or depression, and get veryclose to him before they are discovered. In thesecases the cowboys* pistols come into action, and thecoyote is represented by an indistinct grey streakheaded for the horizon. The prairie-wolf is veryfleet of foot. When cattle ranches grew common inthe West, a bounty was put on wolves by the differentstates. Now-a-days, ranchmen often offer an extrabounty, and the wolvers as professional wolf-hunters are called, sometimes make a fair the interest in wolf-hunting is largely due to theexciting rides across the sage-brush flats, and thelong shots at wolves, where the bullets throw upwhite puffs of alkali dust. The big timber wolf ranges all over the West; butas most of the country they roam in is brushy or moun-tainous, hunting them would be a difficult matter. In the coyote country one is liable to see thesage-
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