The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1886-07-07
MARVELLOUS SHOTS.
STORIES WHICH MAKE THE TRIGGER
FINGER TWTCH.
A shot After Sunset-Killing a Doe
around the Corner"-A Bullet
Strikes the Mark After Ten
Feet DETECTION.
forest and stream.l

Forest and Stream.I
One day I followed does tracks from IL
a. m. till sunset without having obtained
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 a fiat, covered by
heavy yellow birch timber, and terminated
on the further side by an abrupt bank, like
that of a river, l saw the old doe standing
half way up the bank, broadside TO, the fawn
below her, its slender neck upstretched ex-
actIy in line with its mothers shoulder At
that distance ninety very long paces) the
neck looked about the size of q hoe-handies
but took quick look through tire double
sights and fred. 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 Der tracks and rolled back
across her fawn.
My next shot, purely one OF chance, l
think can be classed as wonderful was
following the tracks of doe and fawn.
Within twenty rods of where l struck the
tracks I suddenly saw half of the neck and
the head of the fawn, which was lying down,
partly turned from me, placidly chewing its
cud. A shot through its neck stretched it
hfeless and, with my rifle held ready for
second shot, advanced cautiously, expect
ing to see the doe; but, nothing stirring, l
concluded that she had got away unobserved
my rife, / began to dress the fawn, which
proved to be very large one. In doing this
had changed my position, so that on rising
I caught full sight of the doe lying dead,
twenty feet away to the left, and at right
angles with the line of fire. Half stupefed
with amazement 1 walked up to her, and
found the warm blood still trucking from a
buIlet-hole in the center Of her
belly, and saw that she had died
In her bed without a 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 hackmatack sapling two inches
through, little to the left of the center,
tearing the left side out and cutting the tree
nearly half down; then turning at a right
angle it had struck the doe as mentioned,
passed directly upward between the kidneys,
cutting off the big artery and burying itself
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 big, fat
doe in feathery snow, which adhered tc
everything, ON coming to an alder run, about
eighty yards across, flied with these bushes
from the size of a knitting needle to over an
inch through, I caught sight of her black tai
hanging down motionless. There was about
one chance in thousand of getting bullet
through, but I always took all such
chances, and fred without moments hest
tati1n. The tail disappeared instantaneously
and, fixing my eyes on an object IL
range, so as to advance in direct line
I followed the path of the bullet. Half way
across found an alder about as big as {
pipe-stem cut off clean; but half way from
there to where the deer stood, and fully tel
fest to the right of the line, 1 saw anothei
alder fully an inch in diameter cut off no
more than a foot above the ground anC
thrown three feet from its stump. "Tha
settles it, / said to myself, and startet
rapidly forward to take up the track again
On reaching the spot 1 found some blacl
hairs lying on the snow exactly as if cut GU
by bullet and the first bound of the dee
was nearly twenty feet. This looked like I
wounded deer, but smiling at the absurdit.
of the idea, 1 pressed forward and within
ten rods came upon L-y game stone dead
with bullet exactly through the center o
its tail. To have struck the deer at all aftel
being DETECTED ten feet out of its cours
would have been sufficiently remarkable
but to go exactly to the spot aimed at was
singular chance.