The Wellington enterprise. [volume] (Wellington, Ohio) 1867-188?, 1885-03-04
MARVELLOUS SHOTS.
Stories Which Mako the Trigger
Finger Twitch.
A shot After Sunset : killing . Doc
"Around the Corner"-A Bullet
Strikes the Mark After Ten
Feet DETECTION.
forest and strcam.l

Forest and Stream
Ono day / followed does tracks from
eleven a. m. till sunset without having OBJ
tained anything like the merest glimpse OF
my game. was fast losing hope, as but
few moments OF daylight were left me,
when, on coming TO the edge OF q fat, COW
cred by heavy yellow birch timber, and
terminated on the furSher side by an abb
rupt bank, like that Of q river, saw the
old doe standing half way up the bank,
broadside to, the fawn below her, Its slen-
der neck upstretched exactly In line with
its mothers shoulder. At that distance
(ninety very long paces) the neck looked
about the size Of hoe handle, but took
quick look through the double sights and
fired. The fawn went down like stons;
the doe gave one convulsive bound, nearly
twenty feet, to the top of the bank, dropped
dead in her tracks and rolled back across
her fawn.
My next shot, purely one Of chance,
think can be classed as wonderful. was
following the tracks OF doe and fawn.
Within twenty rods of where struck the
tracks suddenly saw half the neck and
head OF the fawn. which was lying down,
partly turned from me, placidly chewing
its cul. A shot tlrou gh its neck stretched
IL lifeless, and, with my rife held ready
for a second shot, advanced cautiously,
expecting TO see the doe; but, nothing stir
ring, | concladed that she had got away
unobserved Ia the thick spruce growth. SO
setting away my ride l began to dress the
fawn, which proved to be n very large
one. In doing this had changed
my ppsition, so that on rising
caught full sight OF the doe lying dead,
twenty feet away to the left, and at right
angles with tue line of fire. Half stupefed
with amazement walked up to her, and
found the warm blood still trickling from
a bullet-hole in the center Of her belly,
and saw that she had died in her bed with
out kick. On going back to the fawn to
investigate, ! found that the bullet Ia
pointed one), about four feet beyond the
neck OF the fawn, had passed through q
hackmaback sapling two inches through, O
little to the left OF the center, tearing the
side out and cutting the tree nearly hall
down; then turning at a right angle, II
had struck the doe as mentioned, passing
directly upward between the kidneys, cut
ting or the big artery AMI Lurying itseli
In the spine. The deer was as safe from Q
direct shot as though the Rocky Mountains
had interposed between US.
At another time, when following a big,
fat doe In the ieathery snow, which ad
hered TO everything, on coming to an alder
run, about eighty yards across, filed with
these bushes from the size Of knitting
needle TO over an inch through, caugh
sight OF her black tail hanging down mo
tionless. There was about one chance in I
thousand of getting q bullet th -ough, but
always took all such chances, and free
without q moments hesitation. The tai
disappeared instantaneously and, Hxini
my eyes on an obje In range, SO as to ad
vance on direct line, followeC
the path OF tho bullet. Half way acros
found an alder about as big as a pipe
stem cut off clear; but half way from there
TO where the deer stood, and fully tel
feet TO the right Of the line, saw another
alder fully an inch In diameter cut Oft no
more than foot above tho ground anC
thrown three feet from its stump. "Tha
settles r." I said to myself, and started
rapidly forward to take up the track again
On reaching the spot l found some blacI
hairs lying on the snow exactly as II Gu
out by q bullet, and the first bound o
the deer was nearly twenty feet Thi
looked Ike a wounded deer, but, smil NJ a
the absurdity OF the idea, pressed for
ward and within ten rods came upon m.
game stone. dead, with a bullet exactl!
through the center OF its tail. To hay
struck the deer at all after being defectet
ten feet out o; It's course would have beei
sufficiently remarkable, but to 20 exactl!
70 the spot aimed at was singular chancs
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