The Caldwell tribune. [volume] (Caldwell, Idaho Territory [Idaho]) 1883-1928, 1885-03-06
MARVELLOUS SHOTS.
4or.cs Which Make the Trigger Finger
Twitch.

Twitch.
One dav | followed a does track
from IL a. M till sunset without hav
ing obtained anything like the meres
glimpse of my game. was fast losin,
hope, as but few moments of day
light were left me, when, on coming t.
she edge of fat, covered by heavy
yellow birch timber, and Terminated
on the further side by an abrupt bank
like that of river, | saw the old do'
standing half way up the bank, broad
| side to, the fawn below her. its slender
neck upstretched exactly in line with
its mothers shoulder At that dis.
lance (ninety very long paces) the
neck looked about the size of hoe
\ handle. but / took a quick look
\ through the double sights and fired.
The fawn went down like a stone; 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. l
was following the tracks of doe and
lawn. Within twenty rods of where |
struck the tracks 1 suddenly saw half
Of the neck and head of the fawn,
which was lying down, partly turned
from me, placidly chewing its cud. A
shot through its neck stretched it life
less, and, with my rifle held ready for
a second shot, l advanced cautiously,
expecting to see the doe; but, nothing
stirring, | concluded that she had got
away unobserved in the thick spruce
growth. So setting away my rifle,
began to dress the fawn, which proved
20 be a very large one. In doing this
had changed my position, so that on
Using caught full sight of the doe ly-
ng dead, twenty feet away to the left,
md at right angles with the line of
ire. Half stNpefied with amazement
I walked up to her, and found the
warm blood still trickling from bull
et-hole in the center of her belly, and
Mw that she had died in her bed with
put a kick. On going back to the |
lawn to investigate, l found that the
bullet Ga pointed one), about four feet |
passed through hackmatack sapling
NO inches through, little to the left
,f the center, tearing the left side out
md cutting the tree nearly half down;
hen turning at. right angle, it had
truck the doe as mentioned, passed
iirectly upward between the kidneys,
:utting off the big artery, and burying
tsclf in the spine. The deer was as
afe from direct shot as though the
Rocky mountains had interposed be-
ween us.
At another time, when following a
ig, fat doe in feathery snow. which
dhered to everything, on coming to
n alder run, about eighty yards
cross, filed with these bushes from
he size of knitting needle to over an
lch through, caught sight of her
lack tail hanging down mot;onless.
here was about one chance in thou
and of getting bullet through, but
ways took all such chances, and fired
'ithout a moments hesitation. The
ail disappeared instantaneously and,
king my eyes on an object in range,
, as to advance in direct line,
,llowed the path of the bullet. Half
'ay across found an alder about as
ig as pipe-stem cut off clean; but
alf way from there, to where the
eer stood, aud fully ten feet to the
ght of the line. saw another alder
lily an inch in diameter cut off not
lore than foot above the ground and
irown three feet from its stump.
That settles it, l said to myself, and ,
arted rapidly forward to take up the |
ack again. On reaching the spot l +
'und some black hairs lying on the !
low exactly as if cut out by a bullet !
I'D the first bound of the deer was j
early twenty feet. This looked like r
wounded deer, but, smiling at the Y
>surdity of the idea, l pressed for a
ard and within ten rods came upon n
y game stone dead, with bullet ex- +
lily through the center of its tail. To y
I've struck the deer at all after being n
Effected ten feet out of its course n
ould have been sufficiently remark o
lie, but to go exactly to the spot c
med at was singular chance J
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