METHODS OF HUNTING DEER 81 
and permitted to blow its head to pieces at short range. Pot- 
hunters have even been known to catch swimming deer and 
cut their throats. 
In forests like the Adirondacks, frequented by a great 
many people, hounding deer should never be permitted; and 
in the wilderness mentioned it is now prohibited by law. In 
the West Virginia mountains the hunters are posted on the 
runways of the deer and are obliged to kill them on the run. 
This requires good judgment and excellent marksmanship, 
and is legitimate sport. 
Jacking or fire-lighting is a very picturesque and romantic 
method of hunting deer, but inasmuch as it gives the game 
no chance, and calls for very little skill or exertion on the 
part of the hunter, it is by some considered unsportsmanlike. 
In the prosecution of this plan the hunter requires a canoe, 
a skilful paddler, and a good light. With a flaring jack- 
light held aloft in the bow, the paddler, or guide, sits in the 
stern of the boat, and noiselessly paddles it through the dark- 
ness, around the shores of the lake or river. The hunter 
sits under the light, and waits for its beams to emblazon the 
eyeballs of deer standing on the shore, or feeding in shallow 
water. Often the boat approaches so near a wonder-struck 
deer that to miss it is almost impossible. 
Still-hunting is the true sportsman’s method of outwitting 
deer which for genuine keenness of eye, ear and nose, have, 
I believe, no superior in the whole Family. One fine old 
White-Tailed buck killed by fair and square trailing and 
stalking is equal to two mule deer or three elk. When first 
alarmed, the mule deer and elk are prone to halt from curi- 
