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Title: Big game shooting in Alaska
Year: 1904 (1900s)
Authors: Radclyffe, C. R. E. (Charles Robert Eustace)
Subjects: Hunting -- Alaska Game and game-birds -- Alaska
Publisher: London : R. Ward
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
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d in addition to these the present writerbrought out one head killed by a professional hunter in 1902which measured ^) inches when killed, but had shrunknearly 2 inches and then measured rather over 75 inches.This latter head is the second largest authentic head everbrought from the Kenai Peninsula. The worlds record is ahead which was taken from a moose found drowned in theKenai River. The head and antlers were brought into Kenaiby a native who found them. They were purchased by Vein,a Frenchman, commonly known in Kenai as Frenchy,This man Frenchy measured the head in the presence ofMr. Mearns and other trustworthy men at Kenai, and theyall informed me that the exact span of the antlers was slightlyover 81 inches. During the winter the antlers, whilst hang-ing in a hut, shrank some two or three inches. Frenchytold me that he wedged them out again to their originalmeasurement, using bits of wood forced between them and theskull. He finally sold the head to a taxidermist in Chicago,and
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62 BIG GAME SHOOTING IN ALASKA when in his posse.ssion I am told it again shrank to y^^ inches.I beHeve this head has since been sold to a sporting club inNew York, but it still remains the record head, and is likelyto do so for some time to come. It is an annoying fact thatall moose heads shrink considerably when the skull gets dry.Big heads often decrease 2 or 3 inches in span. Turning to the measurements of moose, I cannot do betterthan quote the following table given me by Mr. A. J. Stone.It is a record which he took of an adult bull moose killed onthe Kenai Peninsula in 1903. Mr. Stone is sufficiently wellknown as an authority on the subject to warrant my publishingthe measurements and affirming that they are correct. Measurements of Adult Bull MooseKilled by A. J. Stone, Kenai, 1903. Length. Tail. Tarsus. Femur toHumerus. .\cross theChest. Height at Height atShoulder. Elbow. Brisket. In.108 In. 6 In. In.58 In.21 In. In. 75 401 In.4O5 I also append a table showing the weight of a

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