TRACKS AND TRACKING 



when in the case of the Virginia deer it has ceased 

 to connect the individual tracks. 



In determining whether one stands before the 

 trail of a mule-deer or some other kind, the local- 

 ity where the track is found has to be considered, 

 which often solves the question. Their natural 

 habitat is usually higher mountains, and even the 

 treeless breaks where no white-tailed deer are to 

 be found. The possibility of confounding a big 

 mule-deer track with a small elk track is not 

 remote; however, if one observes closely, mistakes 

 will not occur often, as the young elk places his 

 feet nearer the center line under the body than 

 an old mule-deer buck, and never makes any 

 drag. Then again a full-grown elk always 

 makes a track at least twice the size of that of 

 the mule-deer. 



The signs of the mule-deer buck are: 



1. Drag; 



2. Blazing of trees; 



3. Distance of tracks from center line; 



4. Pointing outward of toes. 



