THE MOOSE 



From all the foregoing it is obvious that it is 

 a rather doubtful possibility for the beginner to 

 tell the track of a bull from that of a cow, but 

 actual observations in the woods will impart to 

 him the ability to distinguish between them with 

 a considerable degree of accuracy. Until he so 

 learns he should follow every likely looking track 

 until it enters a thicket, and if he is following a 

 bull with a halfway good set of horns he will 

 notice overhead broken twigs and bent branches, 

 or perhaps he will find along the trail blazed 

 trees, broken bushes, or the ground torn with 

 hoofs or horns, and may know by these also that 

 a bull made the signs. 



Unlike any other deer previously discussed, 

 the moose, when trotting, oversteps the forefeet 

 tracks with the hind feet to a considerable extent. 

 ( See sketch of trail.) 



As signs of the bull moose we may consider : 



1. Roundness of hoof; 



2. Distance between and bluntness of dew- 

 claws ; 



3. Distance of tracks from center line; 



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