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Bill Wood doesn’t worry about his mother. She is 95, drives around on a four-wheeler, tends to her vegetable garden and a strawberry patch, loves playing cards and she hunts, mostly deer, and she always has ever since she was a young girl growing up in rural Nova Scotia.

“My mother is an independent woman, that’s the truth,” says Bill Wood, her eldest son, who is 70. “She doesn’t hear so good anymore but her eyesight must still be pretty dang good.

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“It was sure good enough for her to see that moose she just shot.”

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Ah yes, that moose, a 600-pound moose, a mighty beast of the Newfoundland woodlands that Laura Wood, the ancient hunter, with a dead-eyed aim, brought down with a single shot during a recent hunting expedition to Sandy Lake Lodge, near Grand Falls-Windsor, NL.

The moose had long been Ms. Wood’s Moby Dick, the one creature she had always dreamed of hunting and had gone after once before, unsuccessfully, on a previous trip to Newfoundland when she was 91.

In Raynardton, N.S., the crossroads where she resides, there are deer aplenty, but no moose. Or, at least, there are no living moose. But there is now a dead Newfoundland moose, all carved up and cured and packed away in a 95-year-old hunter’s freezer, a tasty delight, says her son, that his mother will enjoy adding to the stews she makes.

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