Evening star., 1909-07-11

least unusual sound reaching him meant either
losing him his charging us, about an even money
bet which.
always find myself having to fight persistent In
clnaton to hold the breath to listen Zone seems
hear better when not breathing), which, if not re-
sisted keeps hopelessly blown and unsteady
for close shooting if had Just finished hundred
yard dash; until have now long made it practice
under such to keep saying OF thinking sso to
full, and the hand is pretty sure to stay steady.
Closing in on the Game
DON'T know lust what time entered the
= swamp; but should think it within fifteen
minutes of entry that about fifteen yards ahead
of us heard the crunch of huge jaws and mighty
sigh of surfeit The old giant had apparently found
shade to his liking and was meditating a nap.
Plainly he unwarned of our presence. Sound
told that he stood beneath large wide spreading
tree whose dropping branches met the thick mass OF
tall grass and bush that lay between and
pletey hid him from sight.
After perhaps four or five minutes waiting, nerves
tense and every alert, thought we heard
movement to his left and Judd turned to me, his
bronze cheeks white paper, but square jaws set,
and eyes blazing battle, and whispered, Believe
there two three with him If 50, it's apt to be
hell herel'
And then a moment later another whisper
from Judd, Il think | can see his rumpl Shall
stir him up bit?' No more had | nodded assent
before the of his heavy .45O oordite rifle fol-
lowed by shrill squeals of rage and pain Twigs
cracked great limbs snapped as the monster whired
toward the sound coincident with his injury plainly
swinging for charge.
But then caught glimpse OF his neck, Just back
of the ears and sent two 4O5 hard Winchesters
into it. and instant later gave him third into the
upper half of the head. At this third shot he swayed
about in the bush for few seconds and then crashed
to the ground. While was shooting, Outram fired
with his 1903.
All was still beneath the tree, and after few
seconds we started clamberng in to him. but, just
the vast IN view. he tried to rise,
when Judd gave him another $50.
But his effort to rise proved, when got to him.
to have been only the death throe. Judds first shot
had hit him in the left hip and probably angled
through the kidneys; his last had landed far back
in the neck and below the spine OF my two first
shots, four inches behind the ears over and
probably reaching the spine, the second two inches
back of and inch below the first, while my third
had landed full in the curve of the head between eye
and ears, about three inches below the left and
an inch to the left of the center of the forehead.
Outram's 1903 few inches lower in the head
Crumpled up in the bone.
1t my third shot that killed hin-and at the
time exploded faacv have read, the
best of my recollection, in every book | have
perused on rhino shooting; namely, that it is folly
to try to kill to stop a rhino with frontal
head shot; that rifle ball will penetrate its
sive frontal bone structure When to
move the scalp and chop away the horns found
that my .4O5 had driven through the frontal bone
and smashed the inner skull structure fragments
Almost a Record Prize
A ND it prize had Not a record but close
4 to it. splendid old bull. close to three thou
sand pounds in weight, with an absolutely perfect
front horn of graceful shape, twentythree and
half inches long and twenty-four and half in cir
Cumference the base, while the back horn was ten
inches long and twenty -four at the base His length
from tip to tip twelve feet seven inches his
height at WtheTS five feet nine and half inches
while the circumference of his foot was thirty inches
He was killed at seven NJ, little than