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This 'N That (continued) THE MOOSE Thou monarch of the Northern forest deep, Whose dread embattled antlers rise and spread A crown majestic o'er thy lofty head, Oh, how thy subtle senses vigil keep, Lest unsuspected the silent foe might creep Upon thy path. Yet let him once but tread The rustling leaf—Crash! crash! and thou art fled, A very tempest, up the mountain steep! The frozen surface of the glittering snow Will, signless, bear thy fleeting form away; But broken bough and benten twig will show Th' unerring hunter, with as clear a ray As if he saw thee, wither thou dost go. Then, thro' the silent woods, for many a day, And league on league, with dogged steps and slow, He'll sleuth-like track thee. But brought to bay the foe thou too canst dare, And fling thy fateful challenge on the air— Thine eye can kindle with a lurid flame, As if a spark from Sol were burning there— Behooves him then to make a marksman's aim, Or failing that, be ready for—despair! n By S. Nelson McAdoo S P O R T I N G C L A S S I C S • 15 POTENTIAL WORLD RECORD ARCHERY ELK TAKEN Both the Pope and Young and Boone and Crockett Clubs have confirmed the existence of a potential world-record elk. A Montana hunter, who has decided to remain anonymous at this time, killed the massive typical bull on public land during the early bow season, spending several days packing it out of the backcountry solo. The bull was taken to a taxidermist and scored by a Boone and Crockett official measurer. It was green-scored at a whopping 448 4 /8 inches, netting 429 6 /8 inches. "The antlers need to complete a required sixty-day drying period before they can be officially scored," said B&C Director of Big Game Records, Justin Spring. "But a senior measurer taped the bull, so we're confident with the green score." That green score puts the bull more than four inches ahead of B&C's current All-Time No. 4 typical bull. It also trumps P&Y's current world record, a 412 1 /8-inch bull taken in Arizona back in 2005. "This bull may well be the largest typical American elk taken in the last 48 years," Spring said. n – Boone & Crockett Club