| There some occasion that it is difficult for the hunter | | | | the middle. All of a sudden, a deer jumped into the |
| to follow the tract. But fresh track is very easy to | | | | road ahead of me. I brought the gun to my shoulder, |
| follow. | | | | but by that time the deer had crossed into the brush |
| I will have to make it short, because we want to get | | | | on the other side. While I was trying to get another |
| an early start on the morrow. | | | | glimpse of it, a second deer jumped into the road |
| Perhaps I had better tell you of one of my first deer | | | | and I swung back to cover this one. This deer also |
| hunting trips that happened before I was old enough | | | | crossed before I could get my sights on it. This |
| to have a hunting license. This wasn't in Maine, but | | | | happened with two other deer and I never fired a |
| deer hunting is the same wherever we hunt and this | | | | shot. |
| incident could happen to anyone. | | | | But, when the fifth deer jumped into the road, he did |
| I had never hunted game with a pump-action | | | | something that very few deer ever do. He turned |
| shotgun and on this day, I borrowed a friend's gun of | | | | and ran down the road, directly away from me. This |
| that type and went out to try to get a deer. Not | | | | time I sent a charge of buckshot right into his rear |
| knowing just where to look, I roamed the woods on | | | | end. Of course, he kept on going and I stood there |
| the off-chance of seeing a big buck that was blind | | | | and tried to pull the trigger guard off the gun, |
| and hard of hearing, or one that would let me walk | | | | thinking it was the second trigger of my double |
| up to him for some other reason. There was about | | | | barrel. I never thought of the pump action until that |
| an inch of snow on the ground that made traveling | | | | deer was long gone. |
| kind of quiet, but all of the deer tracks I saw were | | | | Feeling kind of bad about wounding the deer, I |
| old and not worth following. Probably it wouldn't have | | | | followed the blood trail for about two miles. The deer |
| made much difference if I had found a fresh track | | | | rejoined the others and they traveled together until |
| 'cause, at that time, I didn't know how to take | | | | they came to a river that separated two states, |
| advantage of a fresh track anyhow. | | | | where I left the trail. |
| After a while I came to a thick growth of hardwood | | | | Do you need any help with that corkscrew, Jim? |
| sprouts. There was a woods road running through | | | | From this article we can take the conclusion that |
| which made easy walking, and I took this road. The | | | | hunters can take the advantage on the fresh track; |
| brush was thick on both sides of the road and the | | | | this will lead the hunters to the location of the deer. |
| only place where I had a clear view was right down | | | | |