The sun., 1903-12-06
TALES OF BIG GAME.
Morse Hunters in Good Luck
This Season.
GIANT ANTLERS AS TROPHIES.
Incidents That Show the SPORTS
Uncertainty.

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Use OF Rif,es Of Larger Calibre-Wnt
Fowline Out on Long Island-Th'
Maine Tax on Non.Resiient Gunner
Called . success-Imported Britisf
pbc.,,nts KILLING tho Native Birds
ournrc. Dec. s-American hunters OF
b,u game are almost daily returning home
from the northern woods, very fair pro
nortion of them bringing interesting tro'
phies of the chase.
Mooae caribou and deer are all reported
more plentiful than for some years past,
whether in Ontario, the northern Par's
of Quebec or the province OF New BRUINS
wick. In northern Quebec the best resui1s
have been had In the St. Maurice and LAke
st. John districts.
W. Hoyt Weber. who with his iatner'
George A. Weber OF New York, has been
for some weeks on the Laurentian Ciup
preserves north of Three Rivers sue.
ceeded in getting very good moose heao
the other day, shooting his quarry al
pretty long range.
A curious instance OF the uncertainty OF
moose hunting recently occurred on the
preserves OF the Laurentian Club Mr..
Gedney of New York arrived one morning
at a subsidiary camp in the woods. and
found, resting there, couple OF club MEM
bers, who had been looking In vain for
many days for a trace Of big game
They had intended to start out again
after luncheon. Laughingly they asked
Mr.. Gedney why he did not 60 out and get
a moose while they continued their rest
The suggestion was accepted, and the
new arrival started out amid the good
natured banter Of the campers. Ten min
utes later they heard the discharge Of
rife. and shortly after Mr.. Gedney returned
to camp.
When he said in reply to the inquiries OF
his companions that he had killed moose
and had come back to secure their assist
ance in skinning the carcase and getting
the head and meat to camp, the story was
for some time treated as a joke. the whole
OF the surrounding country having been
carefully searched for moose for some
weeks previously. This particular moose
possessed a beautiful head, with spread
Of antlers exceeding fifty inches.
One of the luckiest hunters this season, so
far, upon the Laurentian Club limits, is
women, Mrs. Stewart of New York. AS
rife shot she has no equal in the club.
Already moose and a bear have fallen
to her rife this autumn, and she might
have killed other moose, but for the laws
of this province which permit the killing
of only ono during tho season by any ono
hunter. She is as clever with the pistol as
with the rife, and has brought down quite
a number OF ruffed grouse with this weapon.
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men were lucky enough to kill moose
whose sntlers had spread Of forty-nine
inches. They sighted the animal 400
yards away across a small lake. while lying
on the grass. and. firing together, disabled
It Immediately.
Two New York members of the Meta
betchouan Fish and Game Club were re-
Gently returning from the woods to their
clubhouse at Kiskisink, walking along the
line of the Quebec and Lake st. John Rail-
way, which runs close by the house Sud-
denly turning a corner they found them
selves face to face with bull moose
The animal seemed quite AS much sur
prsed as the hunters, one OF whom, George
Il. Wilcox, raised his rifle just as the moose
was turning about and was broadside
on toward him. bringing it down at the first
shot.
Both on the line of the Quebec and Lake
st. John Railway and also upon that OF
the Intercoloniai, trainmen frequently re-
nort both ,noose and deer s,,rprjsed hy
them upon the track. ard sometimes the
anirnai viii run for a considerabie distance
in frout Of the train ''N''''
Mr.. Armus of New York recently got =
anal, hili moose a, Like Fdwnrd and
Nr S,yavrc of WISCONSIN killed a very
fine one on tbe Triton tract,
z. g, J-iilerbrard of Boston had nm irtor-
eating exne, ience with moose in Eew Rr,,na-
yicI, n shor, time AGO. Will hverv Wnre-
house for guide. several moose were called
and answered back. but none of them we're
enticcd To the hunters lcir,
Finai,v. when another rooso onswered
the call Of tho Guide, il was decided that II
the mountain Would not conc TO M homei'
Mphomnt must 90 To- the mountain ard
the two men started off in The direction of
the moose, II was not very long before
they came to tracks showing thai be had
come mart wav to mec; them and hsd
turned back.
There was some trouble in following tho
tracks through the unclcrbJush, hut When
they came 10 high weeds it was an open
trail, the brush being knocked down
and dry limbs knocked or by the bulls
horns. This t,aii led to O barren, covered
by high punched grcss aiders and second
growth
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