The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1885-01-29
MAsouERAplNe FOR MOOSE,
How an Old Maine Trapper Brought Down
the Wary Animals.

How an Old Maine Trapper Brought Down
the Wary
The first time 1 saw Nate Moore was
in 1861. We were driving in a sleigh
up the Kennebec road, above Bingham,
to watch for foxes. Looking ahead mp
the road we saw a man with m ak, and
slung OH the AK on his shoulder a dead
fox. He was wallowing through the
light snow that fell the night before
eighteen inches strong. My horse was
also w~allowing, but of the two the horse
walked the fastest, and the man and the
fox were overtaken. ''What will you
take for that foxP' says I. Il wa
buying fur.) "a dollar and half, says
Nate, for it vas he. ''In take him."
says 1; ..where did you get him, and
how, without a gun?" co." says he,
81 killed him with my AK. The now is
so light and deep he couldn't get away
from me. I drove him into a hollow
log and that ended his chicken hunt"
That same morning, a little further up
the river, one of Seth Adams boys saw
a fox trying to travel not far from the
house, and he caught a stick of wood
from the woodpile and after him, and
soon overlook and dispatched him. The
fox, in trying to escape, would turn
somersaults and roll over and over and
make the sno fly like dust on a dry
road, but he couldn't get ahead. So l
bought two in the flesh and had them to
skin and dry.
But to return to Moore. Twas favor
ably impressed at first sight with him.
He is well shaped, of a solid hunter
l fD,~11 a~I 4arsn a~ lo,nr@ fA1n AZ
is the best hunter within my knowl-
edge; almost always successful. He is
a good trapper, but his forte is the
rifle. Hunting the moose and caribou is
his specially, although he is good on
pear and Wildcat. He shot in the spring
of 1861 ten caribou in MoXy township, in
Somerset County. His manner of hunt
ing them was to wrap himself in a sheet
and stalk in among a herd. walking
slowly and with as little noise as posi-
BILE, and if one should lift his head tc
listen he would stop, standing erect and
looking for all the world like a stub Of
a tree covered with snow. As soon a:
the animal would go to feeding again
Moore would again walk on, and in
this manner he would be able to select
one of the herd that he wanted, and to
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He told me that he started twenty-sever
in one drove on MoNy pond once anc
shot seven of them. They got confused
and came near running him down
After he commenced to fire they would
run toward him just as often as away
and it was lively times for a good while
The melee ended by the remainder O.
the herd making off up the mountains
lit is a wild country between where
Moore lives and Moosehead lake, but h
knows every inch of the ground. Wher
he goes out on a hunt he don't com
home empty-handed.
Nate is a crack shot, too. One tim,
last year, 1 think, he took a party to
certain pond in the solitudes of Somer
set County for sporting, and after camp
ing neal the pond he went down to ge
a pail of water preparatory to cooking
dinner, and looking up the pond he say
a large black animal coming down tn
shore toward where he was. He IA,
back and told his party What he saw
and they sent him back with his rifle
while they kept quiet in camp. Nat
got behind a tree just in time to see
large moose round the point in front Q
him, and within range. The moos
Immediately smelled him and threw IL
his head and swung around to run, bu
Nate was expecting that maneuver, an,
quick as thought unlocked on him. TIL
moose gave one or two plunges and fel
over.dead.-Cor. LeWiston (Ae.) Jour
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