CHAPTER XXVII. 



DEEE HUNTING IN WISCONSIN. 



RTHERN WISCONSIN is one vast and 

 , almost unbroken deer range. It is pen- 

 etrated by several railroads, along the 

 . immediate lines of which are a few small 

 i'arms and some fair-sized towns and villages; 

 but on going a few miles back from these 

 roads, in almost any direction, one passes 

 the confines of civilization and enters a 

 wilderness that is broken only by the nu- 

 merous logging camps, and these as a rule 

 are occupied only in winter. Thousands of acres 

 of these pine lands have been chopped over, 

 and the old slashings, having grown up to brush, 

 brambles, and briars of various kinds, furnish 

 excellent cover and feeding grounds for Cervus 

 Virginianus. 



True, it is difficult to see the game at any great 

 distance in these thickets, unless the hunter take his 

 stand on a high stump or log and wait until the deer 

 come in sight. This is a favorite and very successful 

 method of hunting with many who know how to 

 choose location and time of day. But adjacent to 

 these slashings are usually large tracts of open 

 woods, frequently hardwood ridges, through which 



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