HUNTING THE DEER 



This method probably accounts for three-fourths of 

 the deer killed in the Northern hunting grounds 

 these days. 



The still-hunter plays a different game. He hunts 

 alone, or with perhaps a single companion, both 

 absolutely refraining from speech; and he has his 

 greatest expectations in the early morning or late 

 evening. He passes across his chosen country 

 slowly, stopping sometimes, waiting and looking 

 about. If he knows there is a big drive going on 

 somewhere within a few miles he feels it is just 

 as well to be in a place where he can intercept any 

 deer that are driven out of cover. As is the case 

 with the drive, his style of sport is something of a 

 gamble; but it is a gamble in which success comes 

 to the skillful man. You cannot blunder through 

 the woods, rushing up to the top of one ridge after 

 another and paying no attention to the direction of 

 the wind, and have any just hope of getting your 

 deer. 



A tracking snow is always coveted by the still 

 hunter; and the highest form of his art is to follow 

 a big, selected buck mile after mile, to come on him 

 lying down to jump him and then kill him. Not 

 every man can do this, but it can be done by the 

 man who knows all the angles of his business. 

 When you have killed a buck in that way you 



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