Conference vmsnet::hunting$note:hunting

         Hi Filippo, I've been waiting to see if anyone would give you
    any help. It sounds like you're interested in hunting the western
    parts of the U.S. and Canada and about 90% of the dec employees
    work in the east this is why you probably have not gotten any replys
    yet. I live in Richmond, Vermont in the eastern part of the U.S.
    but i will be willing to try to help you in any way i am able to.
    I hunt whitetail deer in Vermont, New York, and Maine. If you want
    to write to me i will try to answer any and all questions you might
    have. My address is
                           BRUCE MOULTROUP
                           HCR Box 230
                           Richmond,Vermont 05477 U.S.A.
    
    Looking forward to hearing from you Bruce.

    I have been writing back and forth to Filippo since last March
    and this past friday I got to meet him. He was on his way to Maine
    to hunt with Bruce and we spent a couple hours together.
    He is defintly a Sporstman. He enjoys the outdoors as much as we
    do, and runs into the same problems with the antis as we do. He
    said that in Italy it is much worse than here in the USA. For the
    area that he hunts, there may be as many as 300 hunters and they
    are allowed only 15-20 Chamois. Hesaid the season is closed wheh
    that number is reached. usually one day.
    
    He and his wife were able to travel across the US and see many places.
    He enjoyed his stay and hopefully will come back some day.
    Unfortunatley the time went by all to fast and he had to be on his
    way. I hope he was able to collect the big buck that he wanted.
                                        Walt

    
    
    Walt,
    
          He's hunting with Bruce Moultroup right???  I use to work
    with Bruce.... Now he's a hunter...
    
          Hope they fared well in Maine.... I'm outta here in 27 hours
    for Maine..... 1o days of hard hunting awaits me
    
    
              See-Ya-All 
    
           Jeff

    Jeff, he is hunting with Bruce Moultroup. He went up last saturday.
    I hope he is lucky enough to get one. I've sent him info. on hunting
    Whitetail deer and Maine. Hopefully that helped him. I sent him
    a book published by Outdoor Life called "Tracking Wildgame(?)".
    
    I showed him what animals he would be most likely to see and stressed
    NOt to shoot a mooose. Since I had never met him and did not know
    what type of hunter he was I thought I should explain what the
    diiference between a moose and a deer was. But he already knew.
    
    I guess he hunts mostly Chamois, Wapiti (elk), Danubian Deer(Yukoslavia?),
    and small game. 
    
                                      Walt
    
    
    p.s. Bruce if you read this how about an update on Filippos hunt.          
    

    Sorry Walt it took me so long to reply on Filippo's hunt but this is
    the first time i have looked back at this note since hunting season.
    The first day hunting we had about 3" of snow on the ground. We
    seperated at the car and hunted on our own. I picked up a track and 
    shot my deer by 8:00, 6 point 144 pounds. I signaled Filippo with a 
    couple of shots and he found me after i was about 2/3rds of the way
    back to the car. He helped me drag the rest of the way and decided
    not to hunt anymore that day because it had started to pour and we were
    soaked. I had had him buy a compass and had given him some matches
    before we went hunting so he would have this equipment incase he got 
    lost. Be fore the hunt he didn't thing he would need them but after the
    hunt he said it would be posible for him to get lost.(Quote: the trees
    are so close together) He is used to hunting above timberline in the 
    alps. So he asked me if he could hunt with me the following day. The
    snow was gone by tuesday but the leaves were wet and it was a good day
    to hunt. We hunted the same mountain as the day before. We stillhunted
    up though the hardwoods until we hit thicker softwoods, then we turned
    and followed along in the edge of the softwoods for about half an hour.
    Then i spotted a deer ahead of us. I told Filippo and he stepped up
    beside me and i told him to look at it though his scope to see if it 
    had horns. He looked for about two seconds then shot, the brush was 
    thick so i didn't see the horns until the deer fell then they showed 
    up real well. It weighed in at 201 and had 8 points. He shot it at 8:20
    A.M. and it took us until 2:00 P.M. to get it loaded into his cousins
    brand new car that he had loaned to Filippo to drive to Maine. If you
    wanted to see someone excited and happy it was Filippo. He is a very 
    good person and hunter and i would love to have him hunt with me again
    sometime.
    
    Bruce
    
    p.s. I send in a picture of Filippo and me with our deer to Fra for the
    photo album.

    
    Bruce, thanks for the update on the hunt. I've already talked with
    Filippo and I was as excited as he was. Like I told him, I've never
    seen one that big and he was lucky to get it. He is now planning
    a hunt in Yugoslavia(?) for roe deer and mouflon, whatever that
    is.
                            Walt      

    Walt Filippo is planning his trip for Hungary and Mouflon are a type of
    wild sheep. When we were in Maine we spend more time dragging than we 
    did hunting and i also told him that normally it just isn't this easy.
    
    Bruce