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wards you, be in no haste. If you are on the course 

 of the doe, there is no probability of his sheering to 

 either side if you keep still. Let him come directly 

 towards you. If walking, you can generally halt him 

 with a bleat. But if you can shoot well enough, and 

 are cool enough, it is best to halt him with a ball, for 

 there is some little risk of his getting away if you try 

 otherwise to halt him. When you have shot one 

 buck, remove the scrotum and slit him at once in the 

 chest like a hog cutting the throat does not half 

 bleed a deer and then go back a few paces on his 

 course and wait for a successor, etc. 



It is better in the long-run to keep slowly moving 

 for the most of the time. And your eye must be as 

 keen as ever. A deer, even when moving, is often 

 very hard to see. They are not only low along the 

 ground, but are very fast and silent walkers. Even 

 after you see one it can slip out of your sight with 

 wonderful ease, and this, too, where it suspects noth- 

 ing, but its disappearance is entirely accidental. You 

 must remember this in all cases where you once get 

 your eye upon a moving deer, and either try to get 

 closer to it or try to get ahead of it upon its course, 

 so as to wait for it. A very big buck can slip out of 

 sight, horns and all, in brush so thin and low that you 

 would never dream of his escape. 



As a rule, the following of tracks in " running-time" 

 is not remunerative. The bucks roam for miles, and 

 the does travel farther than at other times. Still, 

 where you find fresh tracks leading to a " slash," tow- 

 ard the middle of the day it will be well to go there 

 if you have snow to make the tracking easy. And 

 yearlings and fawns you may track as at other times. 



