Memories of Moose- Shooting 



In Sixteen Epitomized Chapters 



Introduction. 



IF you have not the luck nor the time to kill a moose 

 yourself and hang up his head in your den, the next 

 best thing is to shoot with the camera a moose killed 

 by someone else. 



Last fall I was so busy building dams and reconstruct- 

 ing an old pulp mill that I could not spare the time 

 necessary for a prolonged moose-hunt. Even in Queen's 

 County, Nova Scotia, where moose are plentiful and 

 comparatively easy to kill during calling season, one must 

 be in exactly the right spot on a perfectly calm, frosty 

 morning to have success assured. 



Location and weather being essential, one may count 

 on spending several disappointing days, lacking one or 

 the other, before being able to take advantage of the 

 time, the place, and the moose. 



As I had to confine my hunting to short week-end 

 trips taken from my camp on Lake Rossignol, and although 

 successful in having the time and place apparently perfect 

 on several mornings, and several times even being able 

 to exchange verbal compliments with foxy old bulls, 

 something generally happened to keep the big horns 

 under cover during the limited and disconnected time 

 I could spare for hunting. 



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