_— 
‘Henry Braithwaite’s Tales 
of the Forest 
(Continued from page 348) 
gnawed the stump off and started. The 
Indian threw down his pack and started 
after him. I came back at dark and 
no Indian. 
I got my supper and was just eat- 
ing when he returned but with no Black 
Cat. He declared that the animal took 
the trap and set it and caught a rabbit, 
for he saw where he had eaten it on 
the trail. He acknowledged afterward 
that the fisher had dug up a dead rab- 
bit and eaten half of it. He said the 
animal warned him when he set the 
trap that he would go off with it, and 
that was all the information I got. 
Getting the Limit in a 
Morning’s Hunt 
(Continued from page 329) 
with a cow. Craig called a second time 
and listening to the sounds remarked 
softly to Mower: “He has left the cow 
and is coming toward us. Get ready, 
for when he comes he will not stop.” 
HE bull moose responded to the 
challenge and came within seventy- 
five feet from where Mower stood, the 
first bull moose he had ever seen when 
hunting. Craig looking the animal 
over, noting its size, said, “Let him 
have it.” 
It required four shots to bring the 
monarch of the Restigouche to the 
ground. The head when measured had 
a spread of antlers of 56 inches. 
Bromiley got his bull moose with 
Fred McIntyre, guide, at an old logging 
camp, seven miles from the Island Lake 
Hunting and Fishing Lodge. The men, 
after the early morning tramp, were 
sitting motionless, when suddenly there 
appeared a bull moose 150 yards away, 
and before it could move off, Bromiley’s 
rifle dropped the moose where it stood. 
The antlers had a spread of 48 inches. 
At a logging camp, known as Num- 
ber 7, Bromiley saw an animal jump 
and start up the bank; the brush was 
_ So dense that neither he nor McIntyre 
recognized the animal until they fol- 
lowed the trail, when McIntyre saw it 
as its head was sticking out from be- 

hind a fir tree. 
“He’s a bobcat, be sure to get him,” 
and a shot from Bromiley’s gun ended 
the career of a five foot bobcat. 
Dr. Fleming was the only member of 
the party who did not get his bull 
moose. At Tongue Lake and Jacquet 
River he ran across two bull moose, 
but their heads were not of a desirable 
size. 
ITH Bob Craig one morning, a 
bull moose responded to the “call” 
but never came within rifle shot, and 
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the chance was forever lost by the 
rumbling of wagons and the talk of the 
men on the tote road nearby. 
Bob Craig said later that it was the 
largest spread of antlers he had ever 
seen, and that “it would have gone 
sixty-six inches.” 
Possibilities of the 410 Bore 
Shotgun 
(Continued from page 328) 
for trial, so on September 1, 1924, we 
had a very different and superior load 
for dove shooting. 
IRDS were fairly plentiful in spots 
that season, but they changed their 
feeding grounds every few days, so that 
some times it would take nearly all 
afternoon to find the birds, but in eight 
afteroons afield, 155 doves were bagged 
in a very satisfactory manner. The 
range of this load on doves is quite 35 
yards, because doves can nearly always 
be bagged even if crippled down, so 
longer range shooting may be tolerated. 
Staying within the 35 yard limit, the 
birds were killed beautifully and with 
very few cripples. On only two oc- 
casions out of the eight was the bag 
limit of 25 birds reached, and we did 
plenty of missing, but it was good clean 
missing, the birds were generally not 
touched, so the missing rather added 
zest to the sport than otherwise. 
Besides the 8s, we tried No. 10 chilled, 
loaded in Remington 214” cases, 335 pel- 
lets to the charge. As we have seen, 
this load patterns beautifully, but in 
spite of the thick distribution of pel- 
lets, we could not make this load kill 
doves anything like so satisfactorily as 
No. 8. Up to 30 yards it did very well, 
but beyond that birds were too fre- 
quently only crippled; so after a thor- 
ough test the load was discarded as un- 
satisfactory. Between the two, we 
would prefer No. 7% to this load, be- 
cause the former, for us at least, does 
not cripple as badly. Tens give dense 
enough pattern to hit well, but the pel- 
lets are so light they cripple badly, 
while No. 7% let many birds through 
the pattern, but when they do hit, the 
bird is killed nicely; so of the two evils, 
we prefer the latter. 
As a shotgun axiom, we would state 
that the best killing load for any gun 
is the largest pellets the guns will use 
to give a sufficiently dense pattern to 
hit the quarry well. For dove shooting 
No. 8 chilled is the largest size pellet 
that can be used in this bore with com- 
plete success. 
‘UR dove season does not close till 
December 15th and we received a 
case of No. 9 chilled from the U. S. 
Cartridge Company, about November 
Ist, the opening date of our quail sea- 
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