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FOREST AND S T R E A M 
September, 1919 
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HUNTING THE MOOSE 
SOME NOTES CONCERNING THE BUSINESS END OF GOING 
INTO THE WOODS AND COMING BACK WITH A TROPHY 
By PHIL. H. MOORE 
HE question is often 
asked by sportsmen 
how it happens that 
a licensed guide or 
other professional 
woodsmen can go out 
into the wilds of Nova 
Scotia and come back 
with a fine bull moose 
in one or two days, 
but if he is hired for 
the purpose of giving 
a sportsman a shot at 
a moose, he is often gone a week or ten 
days or longer before the sportsman gets 
an opportunity to either see or kill one. 
Some amateur hunters even go so far 
as to say that a guide purposely pro- 
longs a hunt with the idea of getting 
more money out of the sportsman. 
Admitting that it is often a fact that 
as soon as a visitor has killed a moose 
he wishes to take the head and get back 
to civilization so he can triumphantly 
tell his friends all about it, the average 
guide would rather have a moose shot 
quickly and get the advertising that a 
successful expedition gives him, than 
to prolong a hunt and perhaps miss the 
opportunity of getting one. He wishes 
to avoid the possibility of bringing his 
charge back, wearied, disappointed, and 
sore. 
Guides know from experience that a 
man in this frame of mind is usually 
hard to settle with and figures the cost 
of the trip down to the last detail, where- 
as if he gets a fine head he is usually 
more than willing to slip his successful 
guide quite a bonus over and above the 
actual charges. 
So much for that phase of moose hunt- 
ing. There are many other whys and 
wherefores that puzzle some returning 
hunters. Most of them can be explained 
if a little time and effort is spent in in- 
vestigating the conditions as they exist 
W HEN guides take amateur sports- 
men into the woods, they have to 
consider their employer’s physical 
comfort; they have to avoid dangerous 
situations; they have to consider the 
various phases of the weather, plan to 
have a good, dry camp each night with 
lots of wood, consider carefully the physi- 
cal limitations of their sportsman and 
confine their hunting to such locality, to- 
pography and methods as their employer 
seems to be able to undertake. 
Too much whiskey in camp saves the 
life of many a fine bull. 
The copious use of it induces late ris- 
ing and slothful hunting. 
Excessive indulgence in the coarse 
greasy food served in the woods is nearly 
as great a detriment as too much liquid 
stimulant. Outdoor air and exercise 
sharpen jaded appetites, and unless a 
sportsman is wise and moderate as to 
how he indulges himself, his first few 
days of hunting are marred by acute 
indigestion. 
When a man has to sit for hours on 
the edge of a cold, wet bog in the early 
morning, waiting for a bull to come to 
a call, it takes both stamina and patience. 
If at the same time he is suffering from 
heart burn, he is being truly martyred. 
In still-hunting, a conscientious guide 
does not wish to kill a moose where he 
has to leave the meat in the woods, con- 
sequently he confines his hunting to a 
country where the meat can be easily got- 
ten out to his canoe. When practising 
the art of calling, a guide can so place 
himself that the moose can usually be 
killed comparatively near water trans- 
portation. The guide is aware that if 
his charge kills a moose it means a great 
many hours of hard work to skin, dress, 
cut up and carry the various parts of 
the gigantic animal to water transpor- 
tation, and at the same time he has to 
make camp, feed and chaperon his 
T!ie author on Lake Rossignol, Nova Scotia, returning from a successful hunt . 
