'• : 
IN THE WINTER THE DEER 
OFTEN BECOME SO TAME 
THAT THEY MAY BE EASI¬ 
LY CAPTURED. THEY ARE 
AMENABLE TO KIND TREAT¬ 
MENT AND WILL FEED 
FROM A MAN'S HAND 
side. After a while you : 
will learn to handle your- 
self the way he does, and j 
subconsciously shun any 
careless or clumsy movement. 
JT is a safe rule to hunt slowly. 
Better indeed to cover a mile 
carefully than to travel twice that dis¬ 
tance without caution. If there are 
any deer in the vicinity, you are just 
as likely to strike them within the 
radius of a mile as within five or six. 
As far as clothes are concerned, take 
Stewart Edward White’s advice and 
never wear a coat. A flannel shirt, an 
Old vest with plenty of pockets, a 
sweater, or if the weather is unusually 
sharp, a light weight blanket Mackinaw 
shirt will prove entirely sufficient Can¬ 
vas coats or trousers, or even khaki ones 
should be left in camp. They are the 
noisiest things you can wear in the 
TuSp E fnmA RY ' ° NE 0F THE REAL OLD- 
3™ E ADIRONDACK GUIDES, WITH THE 
RECORD WHITE-TAIL BUCK. THE WELL 
CHAPMAN SE ° RRSMAN -R t ATURALIST, RAY 
CHAPMAN ANDREWS, SAYS THAT THIS 
antlfrs D ™ HE a LARGEST AA 'D HEAVIEST 
u,r, L ^ RS 0E ANY WHITE-TAIL THAT 
va^t^ VER come under HIS OBSER- 
* A I ION 
wmmm 
PINE WHITE - TAIL TRl 
PHIES, THE RESULT OF 
SPORTSMANLIKE WAY ( 
HUNTING—STALKING WIT 
A HIGH-POWER RIFLE 
woods, and greatly lessen your chance 
of obtaining a shot. 
When out for an all day hunt I usu¬ 
ally carry a small waterproof pack. 
Into this I put compass, matches, cam¬ 
era films, extra cartridges, sandwiches, 
and a cake of sweet chocolate. Thus, 
equipped, I am ready to travel from 
sunrise to dark. It can rain buckets, 
and you yourself be soaked to the skin| 
but these necessary articles will always 
keep dry. 
The choice of a 
rifle in hunting 
deer is purely a 
matter of personal 
taste. Undoubt¬ 
edly the 30-30 
most popular at the 
present time. It is 
safe to say that nine out o: 
every ten hunters going inti 
the woods in the fall earn 
one. A very serviceabh 
weapon for general use is the three- 
barreled gun, the rifle barrel being sel 
below and between the shot barrels. It 
is manufactured by several firearms 
companies, and the standard rifle cali¬ 
ber 38-55 is usually fitted with 12 gauge 
shot barrels, although smaller gauges 
are of course obtainable. With it you 
are always prepared to meet anything 
that comes along—deer, bear, part- 
iidges, and all kinds of small game; 
while a charge of buck shot often 
proves effectual in jumping or trebling 
up a wounded deer. 
^ TILL-HUNTING in dry weat'Kg^ is 
a problem. There are days v/hen, 
in spite of all care exercised, you sim )ly 
cannot hunt quietly. In October with 
several inches of crisp leaves carpeting 
the forest it becomes an impossibility, 
unless a heavy frost having fallen dur¬ 
ing the night, you are able to filch 
a few hours hunting in the 
morning while the 
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