TRACKS AX I) TRACKING 



track of a big bull moose is seen, and though it 

 is too old to warrant expectations of finding the 

 animal still in the locality, it is followed and 

 determines where the bull made his resting-place. 

 When, weeks later, perhaps, the fresh trail of 

 the same bull is seen and again the previously pre- 

 ferred hillside, or another specific part of the 

 woods is hunted over carefully without attention 

 to the trail, but with all consideration for wind- 

 direction and lay of country, and a fair shot is 

 obtained, can it be doubted that tracking was 

 responsible for the downfall of this monarch of 

 the woods? If so, let the doubter once follow 

 a moose track straight and try to get an easy 

 shot: he will probably change his mind. The 

 locating of game, sometimes weeks in advance 

 of the time when the shooting is to be done, is 

 not by any means the least feature in the art of 

 tracking. To reduce, if possible, the annual 

 slaughter of men by careless hunters, it may not 

 be amiss to discuss certain hunting methods which 

 have given me the most satisfaction, and which 

 obviate the possibility of being fired at by mis- 

 take. 



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