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FOREST AND STREAM 
December, 1920 
Know 
Your 
Birds 
AMERICAN 
GAME BIRDS 
Water Birds — Game Birds 
— Upland and Shore Birds 
— In Colors 
By CHESTER A. REED 
Is a book written especially for sports- 
men as a concise guide to the identifica- 
tion of water birds, game upland and 
shore birds. 
One hundred and sixty species of birds 
are faithfully depicted by the colored 
pictures, and the text gives considerable 
idea of their habits and tells where they 
are to be found at different seasons of 
the year. 
These illustrations are reproduced from water-color painting by the author, whose 
books on birds and flowers have had the largest sale of any ever published in this 
country. They are made by the best known process by one of the very first 
engraving houses in the country and the whole typography is such as is rarely 
seen in any book. 
The cover is a very attractive and unique one, with set-in pictures. 
NEARLY 
160 
BIRD 
PICTURES 
IN 
NATURAL 
COLORS 
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“The Real Stuff " 
SPORTING RIFLES 
and 
RIFLE SHOOTING 
By John Caswell 
Late Major, Ordnance Bept., U. S. R., A E. F. 
The most practical work on rifle shoot- 
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of light, wind and weather on the flight 
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of all big game animals, and hundreds of 
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range shooting. Nearly 100 illustrations. 
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yards, according to the judgment of my 
guide, Crowell, when I fired, after tak- 
ing deliberate aim, following my first 
shot with three others in rapid succes- 
sion as Mr. Moose disappeared in the 
edge of the woods which surrounded the 
clearing. As he turned to look back he 
changed his direction a little towards 
the west, leading in a diagonal line to 
the edge of thick cover. When he fell 
it was some 400 yards from our tent, 
just where the pine, birch and maple 
began to grow thick and make it 
impossible to see very far. Here was 
where we found him a few moments 
later. As we approached the spot, I 
confessed to a feeling of doubt as to the 
sureness of my aim. Bob — with a quiz- 
zical expression — said: “What would you 
say if I told you you’d got him?” I re- 
plied laughingly: “I would say you were 
lying sure!” 
But sure enough there he lay about 
twenty feet from us. A fair head, but 
his antlers were not so good as they 
might have been. He weighed probably 
about 700 or 800 pounds. Bob dressed 
and skinned him nicely, leaving his four 
quarters on a temporarily prepared 
stand arranged by six poles, two fastened 
upright in the earth, supporting a third, 
and a fourth resting on the branches be- 
tween two trees — with two poles laid on 
those at right angles. Crowell, who is 
an expert woodsman, and is thoroughly 
versed in the habits of all the wild ani- 
mals to be found in Nova Scotia, is con- 
vinced that this moose was probably the 
same one that answered our call on the 
second night of the hunt. At first he 
was afraid to come out in the open, yet 
was loath to leave the locality until he 
had convinced himself of the true source 
of the continued calling. His curiosity 
finally got the better of his discretion, 
and after working around our tent from 
north to east and then to south, as was 
shown by his answering calls, showed 
himself the fourth morning of the hunt 
— directly north of our tent. If our 
theory is correct, this moose had traveled 
a complete circle before he determined 
to put his fortune to the test. All of 
which goes to show the wisdom of Mr. 
Walton’s parting injunction: “Don’t 
give up hope until you leave the hunt- 
ing ground.” 
A FTER dressing and skinning the 
moose, Bob cut the head off at the 
neck, leaving the cape or skin at- 
tached to the head, removing the neck 
joint, then with an axe splitting the 
spine, separating the trunk in two 
parts and cutting each of these 
parts into two other parts at about 
the third rib. We then placed these 
four quarters upon the temporary stand, 
to remain until they could be removed 
to Kemptville. All this was half a day’s 
work. At 12 we knocked off and had 
dinner. Then we decided to return to 
Oak Hill Cabin, our main camp. After 
dinner Bob decided to walk to Kempt- 
ville to get a man to help him bring 
out the moose to our main camp, and to 
order an ox team to bring the moose to 
Kemptville, where we had to show the 
head and four feet to the authorities 
and report the shooting, according to the 
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