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381 



lodging in the flesh of the shoulder. It struck no bone, and 

 to-day shows practically no scar, save the marks of the rifling. 

 The same bullet, if driven w^ith much less velocity, would not 

 do the work. 



Three bullets from the same box of twenty cartridges se- 

 cured for me the bag-limit of big game in New Brunswick 

 in 1 91 9 — two deer and a moose. My moose yielded to a blow 

 high in the shoulder. The bullet broke one of the long dorsal 

 processes above the spinal column, without visibly affecting 



Bullets which have Killed Moose 



the spinal cord, and lodged under the skin on the farther 

 side of the animal. The shock must have been tremendous, 

 for the moose had no power of locomotion left, and died with- 

 out requiring further punishment. The bullet was blunted 

 slightly at the point, and flattened a little at the base, and it 

 was twisted into a sort of corkscrew shape, conforming to the 

 curve of the rifling. 



Other experienced moose-hunters have found this load equally 

 satisfactory. The ordinary Springfield cartridge, with 150- 

 grain bullet, is nearly as effective as the special load using the 

 heavier charge of lead. 



N. 



MOUNTAIN ASH IN ANTLER-BUILDING 

 (See page 174.) 



Mr. Elwes, whose paper on the elk of Norway is quoted 

 at page 377, hunted in the Norwegian Provinces of North 

 and South Trondhjem (or Drontheim), where, as he wrote 

 (P- 133), "the elk is more numerous than perhaps in any 



