haunting the shores and waters of 
small lakes and streams, the moose fre- 
quent what are known as licks—springs 
gushing forth from the hillsides where 
the water has a peculiar mineral or 
salty flavor. These places are readily 
discovered by following the trails of 
the moose where they travel back and 
forth, wearing paths in the mountain- 
side often two feet in depth. Any 
member of the deer tribe is susceptible 
to the lure of the salt lick. In the past 
it has been a practice amongst pioneers 
to place salt in favorable localities, thus 
making their own licks and luring the 
deer to the very spot but beside being 
unsportsmanlike, this practice is not 
necessary to the trapper. 
BY the time the trapper is ready to 
take care of his winter meat the 
frosts will have changed the habits of 
the moose and deer somewhat. Instead 
of haunting the watering places he will 
take to the higher ranges and feed there 
until the deep snow drive him back to 
the lower levels. No doubt my readers 
have read that a man can run down 
a moose with snowshoes but I’d advise 
him not to try it unless he has a whole 
week of spare time to invest in the ex- 
periment. By that time he will be 
ready to quit and the moose will just 
begin to enjoy himself. Of course there 
are rare instances, as for instance when 
the snow is four feet deep and crusted, 
when one could tire a moose out in a 
few hours. 
Methods which we give for moose hunt- 
ing will be practicable for deer hunt- 
ing also in the same locality. First the 
hunter must make up his mind to exer- 
cise unusual care and patience. Don’t 
rush matters—better stay home and 
cut wood if you’re in a hurry. And, 
don’t hunt until conditions are at least 
halfway favorable. The Indian waits 
until the right day, then he goes out 
and usually brings home the bacon. If 
the ground is frozen the leaves and 
twigs will snap and crackle underfoot, 
making a noise that would warn a 
moose some distance away. Never start 
your hunting when a varying wind is 
blowing for it is apt to swerve on you 
at the vital moment. 
During a slow drizzling rain travel- 
ing through the woods is not so: dis- 
agreeable as one would naturally 
imagine and from our viewpoint can- _ 
not be excelled as a time for moose 
hunting. The woods carpet is wet and 
soggy and the most awkward of hunters 
can get about with very little noise 
and the rain kills most of the human 
scent or at least carries it to the earth 
where no wind can whip it abroad. A 
high wind is also good for hunting and 
if one works against it the noise of his 
approach is drowned by the sighing of 
the trees and the rustle of the leaves 
and twigs on the ground. 
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The hunter should be abroad at the 
earliest peep of the day, and his best 
chances are during the next three or 
four hours. At this time the moose 
and deer are feeding and if the hunter 
has acquainted himself with the ap- 
proximate feeding grounds of the 
game, he can choose a spot command- 
ing a view of these grounds and wait 
there until something happens. 
NE must learn to distinguish be- 
tween fresh sign and that of a 
week’s age. Moose and deer travel con- 
tinuously. Today a small band of them 
may be feeding on a certain range and 
tomorrow the leader may be heading 
his followers over another range, miles 
distant. But, if you keep tab of a cer- 
tain band, you will surely discover their 
habits are very regular and at a certain 
time they will revisit the first range. 
When you are lucky enough to kill 
your moose you will find, if it is the 
first one, a big task confronting you 
in the matter of dressing and skinning 
it. Tackle the skinning first, slitting 
down the belly and up the legs on the 
inside, working from one side first and 
then the other until the job is completed 
at the backbone. The matter of disem- 
boweling the animal is the hardest but 
may be lightened as follows. Cut off 
the head, a foreleg (between the shoul- 
der blade and the backbone) and a hind- 
leg. Then by cutting away one whole 
side of ribs the inwards are easily got- 
ten out. Don’t imagine, you deer 
hunters, that a moose can be handled 
as easily as a buck! It takes all the 
strength a husky man can summon to 
turn a moose from one side to another. 
If you have to pack the meat any 
distance it must be cut up in chunks. 
If it is cold enough to exclude any pos- 
sibility of spoiling the meat can be 
rolled in the hide and protected from 
small birds such as jays or magpies 
until such a time as it can be moved. 
And if the weather is warm it should 
be taken care of; salted and jerked as 
described previously, as quickly as pos- 
sible. If there are any blow flies about 
they will get at the meat and spoil it 
for you in a hurry. Sometimes it is 
necessary to hang your game up in 
a tree, to keep the furbearers away 
from it but a few traps scattered about 
will more than pay for the extra trouble 
as one will often make a good catch at 
the scenes of these kills. 










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