dogs first seeing us. At 50 yds it turned down a small gully & came directly towards us breathing hard, at 20 yards it saw me sitting in the pass but it did not turn back but came on again at a lope directly towards at 10 yards. I fired the trigger of the 250 Savage when it got opposite to fence but the rifle was not cocked before I could adjust the hard working mechanism. It drive forward over down the cliff behind us. I finally got the rifle working & fired at leaping shot at it but it took no notice of that. In ten minutes, the dogs came up on the trail & trailed the girl down that cliff where they layed