there is a german book by the forester who had the so called elkwood in east prussia under his command up to 1945. he describe a method of poaching elk there in the 1920s. it was done by young lads with ice skates in winter time. they were on the ice looking for elk that crossing the myriads of frozen lakes and streams. walking the ice was trouble enough for the elk but with the skates they were able to reach them in short time, hunting them and over a short time bring them to fall. they had long sticks with the blade of the russian mosin bayonet on one end. this things laying around like sand in east prussia after the battle of tannenberg which destroy a russian army. the poacher kill the moose than with this spears.