The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-03-22
GREAT ENDURANCE OF DEER-
Long and Marvellous Run of Buck
 After Being Shot Through Heart

Milwaukee. Wis.-The Sentinel says the fact that deer will sometimes go long way after being hard hit was borne m upon George Ferguson in Sawyer county Wis, near the close Of the last deer shoo~ ing season.
 One day near sunset, after . tramp e three hours that had resulted in nothin& he was resting near the bottom os Q big hemlock. and his rife of forty-6ouTI caiibre was leaning against the tree wtth- in easy reach. Behind him the side Of the hollow rose, the ground covered with fallen leaves.
 He had fifteen minutes to rest in ana half an hour before dark to get back to camp in and was enjoying himself He was just thinking of lighting his pipe
 He thought that 1t was made by DOT. cupine or a squirrel, but determined to take no chances, so he rose slowly to his feet, picked up his rife, cooked It with out noise by holding the trigger pulled back as he raised the hammer, and then peered cautiously around the tree.
 Standing not ten feet away, having walked slowly down the hill. and utterly unsuspiclous, were five deer, two bucks and three does. This was the moro sing ular, as 1t was the rutting season, when the bucks are supposed to be at war with one another. He was so struck with as- tonishment that he did not move a mus cle for a full minute and neither did tho deer.
 The nearest of them was a splendid buck, with branching antlers. He stood could easily have tossed the gun on his back.
 Here at last" he said to himself. lis that. pair of horns I have been wanting. It looks like cold blooded murder, butt"
 He raised the rife slowly and sighted at the spot beneath which he knew lay the deer's heart Herein he showed ig- norance, for he should have sighted at Al Il. AN-A he would have been able to center a sil- yer dollar. He even had thought that the powder would burn the deer's hide. He pressed the trigger.
 The buck wheeled with a loud snort and bounded away. So did the other four and Ferguson starsd blankly.
 All of them Kept on, except a small doe, which was much bewtldered. She stopped on the edge of the rise thirty yards dist ant.
 He fired at her hurriedly. The bullet struck just at the root of the tall and did not bite more deeply than half an inch. but 1t broke her spine and. dragging her hind legs. she struggled down the hill. A shot through the head finished her.
 The trail of the escaping four showed no sign of blood and Ferguson carried his little doe to camp. bitterly disappoirt- ed He supposed that he had shot an inch over the bucks shoulder. An old guide told him that probably his | ann naO been true-tnere was not much chance to miss-and together they took up the trail next morning.
 About 100 yards away, doubled over q | log which he tried to leap in his last az l ony, the buck lay dead, shot squarely through the heart The guide explained | that just before the bullet struck him the animal had taken a full breath They will run sometimes for a quarter of mile when shot through the heart if their lungs are full of air" he said If the lungs are empty they go down inside | of a few feet. In fact they can make | only one jump then"
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