More hunters to pursue Maine moose this fall

CARIBOU, Maine (AP) — Maine’s annual moose hunt will start soon with more permits for hunters than the previous year.

The hunt begins on Monday in limited parts of the state. The late September and early October moose hunt mostly takes place in far northern and eastern parts of Maine.

The moose hunt ends briefly on Oct. 2. Other stretches of the hunt take places in mid-October, late October and November. The state approved almost 3,500 moose permits for this season, and that was an increase of 11% from the previous year.

I always find myself on some offbeat path.

A while back I looked up "moose" in Hebrew and it's a phrase, something like a deer/ram/elk of calling, calling out, summoning.

The exact construction is still a mystery for me, because I can't tell if it named as an elk that does the calling, or is the one that is called.

The latter idea went places because I found several instructional vids on how to call a moose. You know, to trick the poor fellow into thinking a real hottie awaits his charms, so come a little closer, closer...

I thus learned that moose have horns. Okay I know they have palmate antlers like open hands. I mean that these skilled hunters craft special horns made out of birch bark for just the right sound.

Talk to the Moose

Long calls, short calls... Gary knows!

So it got me wondering if a ram's horn in the Bible might have an alt, flipped over meaning of a horn that summons the ayil (ram, elk, deer, moose), not necessarily a horn that comes from the animal.

In any case, the next root verb after the one for calling (qara) is qarav, meaning to approach, draw near, be imminent.

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