FOREST AND STREAM. 
lOCT. 25, 1902. 
Boston and Maine. 
Boston, Oct. 18. — The gunners are returning from the 
Maine woodsi E. B. Bowen, of Newton, has just re- 
turned with two deer. Mrs. Bowen, who accompanied 
him. brought out one. E. K. Hall, who was credited with 
bringing the first moose head to Boston last year, has 
come out of the woods with one deer, leaving another 
head at Bangor to be mounted. J. S. Snyder, of Wake- 
field, has two fine specimens of deer to his credit this 
season. C. S. Cook, of Boston, brought home a fine buck. 
F. A. Lane, F. A. Davis and N. A. Davis have each 
brought home the'r deer. E. A. Hall has returned from 
the woods beyond Ashland, Me. He was accompanied by 
Mrs. Hall. They went in before the end of September, in 
order to have some fishing, as well as shooting. The 
trout fishing they found excellent in that country, where 
but little fishing is done. The trout were large, and 
though not as numerous as in the same waters in the early 
season, they generally came to the Hies with a tremendous 
rush. \\'hen the open season begun they gave their at- 
tention to hunting. The leaves were falling, and were 
generally very dry and rustl ng. About the only way was 
to be at the runways early in the morning, and wait for 
the deer to come along. They got their quota of deer. A 
monster bull moose showed himself just at nightfall one 
evening. They were in a canoe with a gtiide. At first 
they thought it was an old tree turned up on the shore. 
The guide said: "Yes; that's a tree." But it moved. 
They padtlled up nearer, when the old fellow began to 
stamp and bellow. It was close season on moose, and 
they coiild not shoot. There was nothing for it but to 
keep away from the shore till the moose concluded to 
,trot into the woods. They s'ghed for a few moments of 
open season. His antlers were enormous; ten feet in the 
air, like great tree roots. Mr. Hall thinks that it would 
have taken some courage to have got out of that canoe in 
from of the old fellow even with a good rifle in hand. 
Megantic Club members and guests are coming out of 
the woods from liunting trips. Generally they express 
satisfaction as to deer, but partridges are not plenty. D. 
C. Pierce and Mrs. Pierce are off for the Meganttc pre- 
serve for a month. Parry C. Wiggin is back from his 
private camp at the preserve. Dr. George A. Payne is 
just out from his private camp at Big Island- Pond. He 
made the trip to Eustis and return on his automobile. 
Soon they will hunt deer on horseless carriages; that is, 
if there are any deer to hunt. Dr. J. A. Gordon, W. R. 
Bateman, and W. E. Burke, of Quincy. have been spend- 
ing some time in their private camp at the club house. 
Dr. Gordon got a fine buck deer. Frank Fallon and 
wife have been occupving Camp Squanto. 
Boston, Oct. 20. — The Maine moose season opened on 
Wednesday, but up to Saturday, no moose had been 
shipped through Bangor. Th s is a disappointment to the 
hunters or else the guides have failed to have dead moose 
on tap at the opening day, as on former seasons. A 
year ago they begun to come along as soon as the season 
opened. One or two Boston hunters have returned from 
New Brunswick and Nova Scotia the past week with 
moose or parts of them. Maine game wardens and guides 
are dead sure that there are a great- many moose in the 
forests, but they say that it will take some time to get 
them shot and down as far as Bangor. Game Warden 
Pollard, in from the Alleguash region last week, reports 
that he saw ten large moose Oct. 2. all bulls. The record 
of deer shot is getting ahead of last year, the nuitlber 
reported at Bangor for the week having been 311, aga'nst 
260 for the same week a year ago. The record for the 
season thus far is 562 deer and no mo-^se; same time a 
year ago, 604 deer and 14 moose. Patrolman G. L. 
Twombly, of Station 3 Boston, is out of the woods from 
Lincoln. He secured a buck deer of 160 pounds, a perfect 
albino, with a good head. Mr. and Mrs. Fred Scofield, 
of Everett. Mass., have returned from a fine trip in the 
woods of Maine. Coriiing down the East Branch of the 
Penobscot, with guide and canoe, they came upon the 
carcasses of two buck deer, with antlers locked together. 
The antler of one deer had pierced the lower jaw of the 
other, going up through the mouth. The posit'on of the 
carcasses indicated that they had been drowned. Mrs. 
Scofield took nhntogranhs of the heads locked together. 
Prince Hall, of Greenfield. Me., while hunting last week, 
came upon two bucks with horns locked, so that they 
could not be disens'aged. The deer attempted to flee, but 
Mr. Hall had no difficulty in shooting both. It seems that 
the Dayton. 0.. party of other seasons is to be in the 
Maine woods again thi« fall. About thirty men are to 
comnose the party th's year accordine to reports. A narty 
of abAut twenty has arrived from Indiana, and will be 
camned not far frrm Patten. There are also reports of a 
third party of lOO men beinsr made up in the West, to 
hunt moose and deer in Maine. Mr. Carleton should 
attend to these men personally, or send a warden, to see 
if they "bring their potatoes with them." If he thinks that 
he could get iKo fat license fees out of them, if he had the 
law. he would doubtless be much mistaken, for such 
repor-t"; are alwavs greatly exaeffferated. The number of 
men fp'^m the West, who hunted deer in Maine last year 
■wa« not half the number reoorted. About forty deer were 
rfe'stered to Boston hunters at Bangor last week. Ten 
deer were registered to Boston hunters, over the Franklin 
&r Mpsant'c road for the week. At Kineo. Moosehead. a 
number of deer are resi'^tered to Boston parties frir the 
week. Twn game wardens returning to Kineo, from a 
trin tn the Alleeuash reeir^n. H. C. Temoleton and Warden 
Pollard already mentioned, ^ay that there has been a great 
increase in deer in that section. During the trio 400 deer 
and sixtv moo<:e were seen. Ten moose were seen 'n one 
dav. gf^ms thrnnsh a stretch rf river. At the foot of 
Churchill Lake five moo^^e were in sight at one time. In 
the Rangelev region the third week of the big-game season 
has been a better one. Daniel and Augustus Kimtz and 
A. Gahm, of Boston, have been in camp at Long Pond for 
n week. The hunting was rather slow by reason of dry 
jnd rust'ling leaver hut thev brought out a fine' deer. At 
Camn Carrabassett, Frank Vickery and W. R. Hosmer, of 
Bfverley. got a deer aniece last week. Mr. H. D. Priest, 
of Boston, got a deer in the vicinitj'' of the Mountain View 
Hou=e la it week. 
Chatham reports continue to mention a scardty of shore 
h;i-d'!. Boston gunners returning bring very small bagfs, 
fJnrd coot shooting >.= expected soon off Monornby, as Vhc 
birds are already "bedding" in that^ vicinity, and finding 
feeding grounds that will cause them* to stay. Coot shoot- 
ing has already begun at the lower South Shore, after 
weeks of slim sport for the gunners. At Marshfield, An- 
drew Tribou shot nineteen one morning last week. Henry 
C. Phillips and George S. Josselyn have both made good 
bags. The gunners are getting a few brant along Duxbury 
Beach. Yellowlegs are giv.ng better _ sport along the 
North River marshes. Some great cooting has been done 
off Scituate. The hunters go off in dories. Edward, 
James and Scott Edson, local gunners, went off in three 
dories, from Third Cliff. Return. ng in the afternoon, they 
counted 57, 18 and 12 coot to the respective boats. Along 
the North Shore coot shooting is beginning. At Essex 
River the local gunners are getting a good many birds. 
Boston gunners are departing for Annisquam for coot 
shooting. Special. 
Huntingf Ducks. 
Went this mornin' to the crick, 
Slipped up easy-like and quick — 
Birds a-flyin' everywhere. 
But there wa'nt no ducks down there; 
From the marsh land floated back 
Like an echo, "Quack, quack, quack." 
Thought I'd find 'em in the marsh, , 
But discordant-like an' harsh. 
Birds jest riz right up an' flew— 
I was feel in' mighty blue — 
On the crick aga'n alack! 
With their noisy "quack, quack, quack." 
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I got mad an' started back, 
Wind had changed an' had to tack. 
Found my tame ducks feedin' there; 
When I'd shot one, I declare! 
Overhead a circlin' back. 
Heard the ducks go "quack, quack, quack." 
Got him picked an' in the pan ; 
Bet that duck won't quack again! 
Sat there broodin' o'er my luck, 
Awful tired an' not a duck; 
From the oven floated back 
Mighty tame one lonesome "quack."' 
which were killed simply for the love of killing. All ex- 
press satisfaction with the day's gunning, and the outlook 
is very bright for a good season at Harvey Cedars for the 
lovers of duck shooting. David White. 
Wm, Felter. 
LACvcNE,!Kaii.s. 
New Hampshite Snatcts. 
DuNBARTON, N. H., Oct. iZ.— Editor Forest and 
Stream: I inclose clipping taken from Manchester, N. 
H.. Mirror. It speaks for itself. C. M. Stark. 
Moultonborough. — Fish and Game Commissioners 
Wentworth and Clarke came to this town Wednesday 
evening and this morning caused the arraignment of 
Henry 1. Moulton, Smith Davis, Charles E. Moulton and 
David G. Moulton, all of this town, and C. A. Forsaith, 
of Sandwich, who were arrested for sending snared par- 
tridges out of this State. James B. French presided at the 
court proceedings yesterday morning and sentences were 
imposed as follows : ..^ 
D. G. Moulton goes to jail ror sixty days, beside pay- 
ing a fine of $80 and costs of prosecution. X. E. Moulton 
was fined $50, jail sentence suspended. The others vvere 
firjed $10 apiece and ordered to pay costs of prosecution. 
The Commisioners have proof that these parties have 
been shipping snared b'rds to New York city. They were 
picked up by the diflPerent stage drivers and forwarded 
to their destination through the American Express Com- 
pany. The Commissioners, in the near future, intend to 
bring these stage drivers before the court for the viola- 
tion of the law that explicitly forbids common carriers 
handling birds. The penalty is $100. 
The inducement was alluring, for the price paid for par- 
tridge in New York city is $1.25 apiece. 
It is the general opinion here that the Commissioners 
have broken up the Avorst combination of snarers that 
' New Hampshire contains. Residents here are pleased over 
the arrests and convictions. 
Long Island Shooting. 
Bay Shore, N. Y., Oct, i^.^Editor Forest and Stream: 
•Prospects for shooting in this vicinity during the fall are 
better than they have been for a number of years. The 
duck shooters will be pleased to learn that there are al- 
ready a good many broadbill in the bay, together with 
coot, black duck and brant. The fall flight of snipe has 
not occurred yet, btit a few English snipe are reported on 
the meadows. 
As for quail, one has but to take an hour or so afield in 
the afternoon and seldom will fail to find from two to five 
bevies. Indeed, it was only this afternoon I found four 
bevies in not over an hour's tramp. Rabbits, too, are 
plentiful, and as I have said before, the sportsman will 
find plenty of game for his gun in this vicinity. 
F. A, D. 
Bayport, L. L, N. Y., Oct. 19. — ^The prospects for duck- 
ing in this neighborhood are very good, large flocks o\ 
ducks being seen in the bay yesterday. The qua l and 
deer are also very plentiful, Henry Stokes, 
The Shedding of Deef Hotns. 
It is not very safe to predicate anything about the time 
at which deer shed their horns. The elk uniformly carries 
his antlers till spring, and sheds them with great regu- 
larity — usually in the month of April, but sometimes 
earlier. The common deer on the other hand sometimes 
shed their horns in November, and sometimes do not 
lose them until April, but the greater number of deer 
"tast their horns in December and January. 
In his "Antelope and Deer of America," the Hon. J. _D. 
Caton cites the case of a four-year-old Virginia deer which 
shed his antlers in April in 1869, while in November of 
the same year he shed the antlers grown during the 
summer. In both cases the deer was in perfect health and 
in very fine condition. In 1878 there was a big buck in 
captivity in the park on the Boston Common, which shed 
one of its horns the middle of March and carried the 
other several days longer. 
The cow caribou carries her horns very much later 
than the bull. He commonly drops h's in December, or 
early January, while the cow carries hers till the last of 
i^vlarch, 
Dttcfcs at Bamegat. 
Harvey Cedars. N. J., Oct. 15,— -I have observed a 
steady increase in the number of black ducks, and at pres- 
ei.t these ducks are more plentiful than ttsual at this time 
of year. They are also feeding now in this vicinity. 
For the last week large flocks of geese have been seen 
flying southward ,and especially to-day great numbers 
have been seen. This increase is probably dua to a sudden 
change in the weather, for it is considerably cooler now 
and the wind is blowing briskly from the northwest. Two 
geese have been killed by an. old gunner. Amos Birdshall, 
who brought them over to the hotel to-day. 
We have quite a number of gunners in the house, and 
those who went out to-day had very good luck. Quite a 
numbfer of ducke were killed, including black ducks, shel- 
drakes, loons, mi mentioning some thos^ ifsekss biw^^ 
Hints and Wrinkles* 
Readers are Invited to send [for publicalicn acder Ihls 
head biotb and wrinkles drawn ircm fractiial expeiiecce^ 
and pertaining to shootiag, fishing, camping and outdoor liie. 
No. 2 —A Usetal Cartridge Poocfa. 
Few articles in a small-bore rifleman's kit give more 
satisfaction in the long run than those he himself makes 
at odd tim.es. Of course he can purchase nearly all of ' 
necessary articles, but if he is inclined to want his tr; 
to be exactly according to his own ideas, the thing 
do is to make them. Generally this is easier than < 
m.ay suppose at first thought, and while the finis 
article may be homely, it is certain to possess the m 
of having been made to order, and the owner has 
satisfaction of knowing it is just as he intended it to be. 
Sometimes he cannot make the manufacturer of ,such 
articles as he requires understand just what he n'et^fifs, 
and in the end he wants a certain thing and pays for 
something quite different which is unsatisfactory in the 
end; so he saves dollars in the loss of a little time and 
the exercise of patience. 
Persons who do their shooting with .22 and .25 caliber 
rifles are often at a loss how to carry cartridges and 
cleaning material conveniently during a day's hunt. For 
one, I have found a small pouch, suspended from the 
waist-belt, more convenient than anything else, for 
these reasons: If one wears a coat or a vest, he may 
discard' it, forgetting part of his outfit, left in the pockets; 
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and the pouch should contain not only the supply ol 
cartridges, but a field cleaner, oiled bits of canton 
flannel, oil, perhaps a small screwdriver and parts of 
sights (if these are interchangeable) for shooting in the 
dark woods and in the open. If all these articles are 
kept in the pouch, and the latter with the rifle, one will 
always find just what he requires at the time it is needed. 
I have made these pouches of various sizes and shapes 
for my own use, but have found that one about 5 by 5 by 
I inch answers all requirements for .22 and .25 caliber 
cartridges. Any soft leather about one-sixteenth of an 
inch thick will do, as much heavier leather is hard to 
sew and too stiff after the pouch is finished. In the ac- 
companying illustration A shows the piece of leather which 
forms both the back and flap of the pouch; B the front 
piece; C an inch wide strip sewed to A and B along the 
seams H and J; D, small pocket inside the main pocket 
for cartridges for immediate use; E, pocket containing 
field or string cleaner; FF, buttons; GG, buttonholes; 
K, one of the two belt-loops at rear. 
The belt-loops and the cartridge pocket D are sewed 
on the rear pice first. Then the strip C, after which the 
pocket E is sewed on piece B, and B attached to C. 
Snaps or ordinary buttoms will answer for a fastening 
for the flap. All this may be done in an hour on .any 
ordinary sewing machine; otherwise by hand. 
A Gpvernment string cleaner for .22 or .35 calibers 
ttjay be obtained of any sporting goods dealer. Fold it 
?ind place in its proper pocket, wh^re it tn£^y feting 
