The Adirondack Deer Law 



killed is secured, the others running to some 

 distant or secluded spot before lying down to 

 die of their wounds, and that four-fifths of 

 those secured are nursing does, whose un- 

 weaned fawns are left to die of starvation. 

 Little can be said in defense of this method of 

 hunting. 



The objection to driving deer to deep water 

 is that their escape is practically impossible, as 

 a man in a boat can row faster than any deer 

 can swim. Even a child can thus be rowed 

 around the swimming animal, and can shoot 

 at him until a lucky shot kills. One of the 

 best guides in the Adirondacks told me that 

 he had seen a man fire thirty-two shots at a 

 swimming deer before the clumsy butchery 

 ended. 



The lovers of fair sport were encouraged 

 by the increased interest in our forests, on 

 the part of the people, as evidenced by the 

 adoption of the section of the new Constitu- 

 tion already quoted, to hope for legislation 

 which would wisely protect the deer. Their 

 contention rested upon two fundamental pro- 

 positions : First, that the preservation of deer 

 in our State was so desirable, that they should 



be protected from such methods of slaughter 



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