THE GUN AT HOME AND ABROAD 
time and he shot the wrong one. One with a head well over sixty inches 
was looking at him from behind, and was only seen as it dashed away 
after the shot. The usual call of the cow is something like “ Moo — waugh — 
yuh,” but she has many other cries which are difficult to render ono- 
matopoeically. The bull answers “Oh-ah — oh-ah,” sometimes repeated 
three times. 
Whether the moose of the North-West are stupider or more blinded 
by passion, the fact remains that many sportsmen have shot bull moose 
there at their first attempt at calling. It is said that almost any grunting 
noise will call them up, though the Indians prefer to attract them by 
thrashing on the bushes with a moose shoulder blade. 
A Norwegian told me that he supplied Dawson one winter with moose 
which he killed with his elk-hound, adopting the same method as he 
did in Norway. He killed many with his “ bind-hund ” until the dog 
and his companion were both murdered by a band of ruffians. His tale 
was a pitiful one and too long for insertion here. No doubt moose could be 
easily killed both with the “ los-” and “ bind-hund ” in America as the old 
bulls come readily to bay. I know that several were killed a few years 
ago by the former method on the Macmillan. 
The method of running the moose down when the snow is just hard 
enough to bear man, whilst the great deer breaks through, and known as 
“ crusting,” is now seldom practised in Canada and should be condemned 
by every sportsman. Unfortunately it is still made use of in certain 
districts of the east where game wardens are few or inefficient. That there 
is to-day a great deal of moose poaching in Canada is, unhappily, too true. 
Often the railway camps along the new lines are supplied with moose 
flesh the whole season; not a word being said by those whose business it 
is to protect the game. In Canada and the States there has always been 
one law for the resident and another for the visiting sportsman. 
Only a few years ago a man I met boasted that he killed ten moose 
in January and February and openly sold the flesh in the streets of Mattawa, 
where three game wardens were then living. Nothing was done or even 
said to him, for he was a powerful citizen — politically. 
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