The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1900-10-28
KILLING 4 Big MOOSE.
Exciting Gunnery at Night Be
fore He Was Brought Down.
ExPER1EroE OF DR.. HEBER BISHOP

Tells How He Secured Anothexl
Huge specimen For His Collection
OF Game Heads-vieious Fight Pat
Up by the Moose.
Now that the season for hunting
moose has begun In Maine the follow
ing account OF how . noted sportsman
killed q remarkably large moose Is Of
timely interest.
DIR. Heber Bishop OF Boston has cap
tured another monstrous moose to add
to lis already famous collection of
game heads taken In the forests OF
Maine and the British provinces. bis
''kil'' of last year was sent to the Paris
exposition as a specimen Of American
game, and the antlers Of the bull moose
he has just slain In New Brunswick
are not greatly inferior to those exhib-
tied across the water, says the Boston
Herald From a letter sent to a friend
the following story Of the hunt In
taken:
The scene of the tragedy Is laid on
Canaan river and lake stream in New
Brunswick, where, accompanied by
several skillful Indian guides and ex-
pert moose callers, DIR. Bishop arrived
on the 18th of September, pitching a
camp on the first lake. The Millicete
Indians began calling moose with their
birch bark horns on the 18th and lured
between Is and 20 bulls up to within
| easy range before DR.. Bishop saw one
that satisfied him. Twenty-six bulls
were seen during the trip. several of
| them as near as % yards. Sometimes
| 1t was necessary to draw back In the
| canoe away from the moose, who ap-
preached so fearlessly that there was
| danger of a mix up.
Saturday evening, the 22d," as DR..
! Bishop tells the story, "a bull was
| heard approaching in answer to the
| calls, whose deep toned challenge and
hoarse grunts proved his large size and
| boldness He was no less than two
| miles away when his answer to the
| horn was first heard, and he came
steadily down toward the canoe till
| about 100 yards away.
"Our birch was lying near the outlet
| of the lake. A little wind was stirring,
| and, as luck decreed 1t, three cow
moose were feeding within 800 yards
of us, tearing up the lily pads with con-
siderable noise and splashing in the
shallow water. They soon attracted
the attention of the big bull, and he
stopped to pay his addresses to them,
leaving us In the lurch, to the great dis
gust of the Indians.
"Jim applied himself to the horn
with renewed earnestness, and occa-
sionally low, whining coax from that
Instrument, very plaintiye o-o-o-wah.
would bring an answer from his males
ty, gruff, deep toned w-o-o-f, and the
bull would start toward US, but the
nearness of the cows made him vacil-
late. Jim teased him with his tones
from the horn till long after dark. en-
ployIng every method known to his
philosophy of moose calling, but with
out success.
"At last, about IL o'clock, Jim sud
denly announced: Bull no come to us.
We 90 down to him. He was about
600 yards away from US. and 1t was so
dark we could see none OF the animals,
but could easily hear the grunts Of the
bull ! had two rifles In the bow of the
canoe beside me, one 1910. with five
cartridges In the magazine, the other
with only two shells In 1t.
Padding In perfect silence, the
guide brought the birch canoe up 90
near could see the dark outlines of
the bull. who did not move till we were
within so to 20 feet Of him. He had
seen US coming. but refused to show
the white feather in the presence of
the cows. After what seemed q long
Il T0~~n AL -
In my first bullet, which hit him In the
neck. but did not bring him down or
seem to Jar him. AS we expected, he
promptly returned our compliment by
vioiously charging on the canoe. Jim
retreated rapidly. backing the canoe
Into deeper water. while put In an
other shot, breaking a hind leg, but the
bull boldly continued his advance.
''The cows now splashed out of the
water and thrashed away through the
woods. My next shot perforated one
Of the moose's ears. 1t was impossible
owing to the darkness to see the sights
on the rife, and aim had TO be taken by
the direction, but another shot chanced
to be so placed as to hit him hard, and
he turned back for the shore. Jim then
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gan to rise from the water, getting his
feet upon the bottom in the shallow
water near the shore. l, fired the re-
naming cartridges l had in the rifles,
seven in all. The old fellow lacked
strength to climb out Of the water and
fell down where 1t was about three
feet deep. heading toward us at the
same time, his big eyes glaring like
two balls Of fire.
"His weight was 600 much for us t.
handle. so. going back to camp, we Sc
cured re-enforcements among the>other
Indians and soon after daylight drag
ged the shaggy carcass out upon the
shore. Then found that i've OF my
seven shots had taken effect. He was
very large bull, standing feet 2