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Show TALL STORY The old prospector was talking to his visitors from the East. "There I was," he said, "the ! grizzly bear down in the canyon I behind a tree. The only way I j could hit him was to richochet a I bullet off this high canyon wall I on my right. Well, I calculated the lead of the barrel and the j rate of twist, the hardness of the i bullet and the angle of yaw it would have after being smacked j out of shape against the canyon i wall, and I Judged my chanres were 60-40 that I would get my bear." j There was a long silence, j Then one of the listeners ask-! ask-! ed rather timidly: "Did you hit him?" j "Nope," spat out the old man. "I missed the wall." |