HUNTING THE DEER 



out to a trail hang it up there. If you leave it in 

 the bush have a blazed trail so you will be able to 

 find it again. Better pull out a green branch or so 

 into the road at the point where your blazed trail 

 strikes it; then you can find your deer later when 

 you have a wagon or other means of taking it out 

 of the woods. 



A deer can easily be brought out of the woods on 

 a horse; the better if the latter has a cow-saddle 

 with a good horn. Cut slits for thongs above the 

 hocks and knees, and cut another slit along the 

 brisket. Let two or more men pick up the deer and, 

 approaching the horse very carefully, drop it into 

 the saddle in such a way that the horn sticks through 

 the slit brisket. Now tie down the legs at their 

 middle joints to the cinch-ring on each side. Your 

 deer will be on to stay if you have been thoughtful 

 enough to cinch your saddle tightly in advance. If 

 you forget this you are apt to have a ruined deer 

 and a ruined horse. Few horses will pack a deer, 

 and even Indian ponies sometimes have to be blind- 

 folded while the deer is being loaded on the saddle. 



Most deerhunters wagon their supplies into camp 

 and then go out on foot for their hunting, horses 

 rarely being used. The writer was one of a very 

 interesting and highly efficient hunting party in Wis- 

 consin during the past season. We had a dozen 



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