Democratic Sentinel, Volume 16, Number 35, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 16 September 1892 — An Effective Shot. [ARTICLE]

An Effective Shot.

Bill Philip, a big, good-natured Irishman, Red Bill we called him, told me he never shot a gun in his life. He always had a fine dog, usually a hound, and was fond of going hunting with some one of us hunters, taking dog along on a chain. Passing his cabin one morning I noticed his dog—a powerful hound—and I said to Bill: “What did you cut his tail off for?” “Well, I tell ye,” says Bill. “Jim Mason and me went hunting up the Hog Meadow Creek the other day, and just below where the tote road crosses it we jumped a big buck. The dog sees him and gives a big jump and jerked me down on hands, and face, and away hiwent chain and all. The deer run across the alder bottom, and was just at the culaßs when Jim shot at it. We went and looked and Jim says: ‘We’ll get }t; here is lots of blood;’ and* sure the blood was spattered all over. We followed the trail down across the hardwood judge tq the river and over into the big' blowdown about a mile, finding blood all the way, when the dog came to us. And phat do think? Every bit that Jim hit the deer was to shoot two inches off the tail end of the dog.”—Forestand Stream.