The Worcester spy. [volume] (Worcester, Mass.) 1898-1904, 1898-11-13
A Rival Moose
Arrives.
A MONSTER ANIMAL
Brings to Mind Stories of
the Maine Woods.


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| worcester hunters continue to achieve
wonders in Maine. f. H. Kelley, the
lawyer, comes back with a moose that
rivals in size and beauty those secured
by A. B. F, Kinney and E, C. A. Beck
er. He brought the whole carcass back
to Worcester with him, and during the
week it attracted attention and admira-
ton of scores of sportsmen at Watson
& Belchers market. There We're q
points on the antlers, which were of
great beauty, and had a spread of 81
inches. The big beast stoodlfully seven
and one half feet and must have weigh
| ed close to, if not over 100 pounds
Mr.. Kelley went in at Paten, and pro-
ceeded to Trout Brook Farm, where he
remained for ten days. In addition to
the moose, he brought back two hand
some bucks Mr.. Kelley shot a 30-30
| Winchester, and adds his testimonial to
the worth of the little weapon. The lit
| tie "pop-gun," as the guides were
| tempted to call it at first, is fast super
ceding the heavy big calibre rifles of
the past. He reports deer in the coun-
| try which he hunted as abundant and
says he could easily have killed 90
There were many signs of moose, and
| he saw three.
e. S. Pierce has returned from Soud-
ahunk, after a two weeks trip, bringing
two fine deer a caribou and a spike
horn moose. Mr.. Pierce says he
brought the spike horn home just to
show hunters how small moose could
grow. He shot a 40-82 but left it up
country, and next year will carry a
30-S0, an order for which he left at the
Lowell Arms and Cycle Companys
store last week. Already Mr.. Pierce is
anticipating his next fall trip.
Other hunters are still in the woods,
some returned late in the week and
still more are going down in the next
few days, H. S. Pike is at Caribou, Me-,
and later will go up into New Hamp-
shire after deer. Oscar England, Her.
bert Roper and H. F. A. LANCE are ex-
pected home this week with stories and
trophies. L. w. Gates is having good
fun in the Maine woods and writes of
seeing plenty of deer, Wounding one;
but still waiting for kill.
Bird hunting is at it's height and the
covers which have been scantily filled
seem to have more birds than at any
| time this season. The number of birds
| is probably less than it was at the first
of the season, but they are fast getting
| localized. The apple trees still offer feed
| but many of the birds have found their
way into the winter covers. The leaves
are down and the bracing air makes
conditions for both man and dog per-
| feet. The extraordinary flight of wood
cock is past, and hunters who desire to
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this season will have to so south to do
so. Quail are found in some numbers,
| but hardly more than there We're last
year, much to the disappointment of
many sportsmen who thought that the
| restocking of the covers would result
in good shooting. There has hardly been
a season for years when the weather
has been more desirable during the
month of November than this year.
When can any one recall more perfect
| November than last Wednesday?
The event of the week, if not of the
season, for many local fox hunters will
be the annual fall hunt of the Western
Massachusetts, Fox Club at Westfeld,
which takes place Wednesday and
Thursday Invitations reached the
city last Wednesday. The hunters
horn will sound at o'clock Wednesday
Imorning and carriages will leave the
| Park Square Hotel at o'clock The
annual hunt dinner will be served Wed
lnesday evening at s 80 The local hunt
ers will leave Worcester for Westfield
Tuesday afternoon. A large number
will attend including o. NJ. Ball, 0. F.
IJoslyn of Oxford, Cyrus Holden, e. S.
Knowles A. B. r. Kinney, President
]. r. Thayer of the Worcester Fur Com
Ipany, D, NJ. Earle, w. r. Dean and
many others.
i Single-trigger double barreled shot
guns are now becoming so common, es-
lpecially in England, that they no long
er excite interest when exhibited. The
latest production of.a London firm, a
three-barreled, single-trigger gun, is,
however. something entirely new.
Speaking of this gun, the London Field
says the gun and it's trigger action are
perfect in every respect. The gun used
by the shooting editor of that paper is
a 16-gauge gun, weighing seven pounds
and so nicely balanced that it handles
like an ordinary gun. The three barrels
are set in one plane, the centre barrel
taking the place, as it were, of the rib
!, in a double gun. With this gun in
} actual practice the editor has shot sew
leral times inanimate targets three
targets being sprung at once. On each
Occasion the three barrels We're fired
without difficulty and on two occasions
all three targets We're pulverized, thus
showing that the gun and its mechan-
ism are all right and that all that is
needed behind it is a good shot The
three barrels are so well aligned that
at 40 yards each is dead centered on the
same spot While three barreled gun
may not become popular-for it is by
no means a novelty-yet the applica-
ton of a single-trigger action to such
a weapon shows that the single trigger
itself is about perfected.
A sportsman at Lily Bay, Moose
head Lake, writes that the deer are so
numerous up that way, that they dig
up all the potato fields and eat up all
the peas and beans on the farms. The
farmers put up high barbed wire fences
to keep them out, but the deer jump
over the fences. They hang lighted
but even that does not prevent the deer
corning III One man counted II
deer one morning in his field.
A valua BILE lesson in bird hunting was
lgiyen T. T.. Curtis dog Tip at Belfast,
the other day says the Maine Sports
man Having secured a partridge, it
was let loose in the store, and Tip was
allowed to tree him on the top shelves.
All went well until the bird flew
through one of the back windows and
ESCAPED, but Tip was equal to the emer-
gehcy, for after a sharp run around
the grass and caught it before it could
Ify Pretty good work for a ten
months old puppy. It's all owing to
the difference in locality That's all
fright in Maine, where they tree birds
land then shoot them; but here In Mas