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Show QUEER DOINGS OF RIFLE BALL. Writer Tells of Extraordinary Shot Ho Once Made. I myself mado tho most extraordinary extraord-inary shot at an antelopo that I ever hoard of, which, howover, has nothing to do with good shooting, but rather with tho erratic course that a riflo ball may take. With Boveral scouts, white men and Indians, I rodo ovor a hill, to seo three or four buck anto-lope anto-lope spring to their foot, run a short dlstanco and thon stop to look. I mado a quick shot at ono, which dropped, and on going to him I found him not dead, though ciosrerately wounded. Tho animal had boon standing stand-ing broadside on his face toward my left. Tho ball had struck tho loft elbow, splintering tho olecranon, passed pass-ed through tho brisket, broken tho right humerus, turned at right angles and gone back, cutting sovoral ribs, brokon tho right femur, thon turned again at right angles and camo out through tho inside of tho leg, and struck tho left hook Joint, which It dislocated dis-located and twisted off, so that it hung by a very narrow string of hide. I novcr again expect to seo so extraordinary extraord-inary a course for a rifle ball. Outing. |