| Trialing for the deer fro long could be sometimes | | | | day, forcing it to travel with a full paunch at the start |
| frustrating once you missed the shot. You can | | | | of each day's chase. Perhaps this is why it is easier |
| always learn from these kinds of experiences of | | | | to shoot trailed deer late in the day than it is earlier in |
| trailing. Trailing behind the deer could take you to the | | | | the chase. |
| level of exhaustion. Then the deer loses their natural | | | | Possibly this theory is all "poppycock" and trailed deer |
| fear if followed without being harmed. Instead of | | | | merely become accustomed to the trailer and lose |
| running behind the deer like anything its best to | | | | some of their natural fear after being followed for |
| calculate your moves so that you save your energy | | | | some time without being harmed. If a man should |
| and shoot at the deer with much ease. | | | | ever try to trail a deer to the point of exhaustion, he |
| If a man fails to shoot the deer on the second start, | | | | should not take out after some ranging buck that |
| he is in for a long and sometimes discouraging job of | | | | tries to leave the country. He will go so far and so |
| trailing, but there is nothing that I know that will give | | | | fast that he will have hours of rest before the |
| a hunter a more thorough knowledge of a deer's | | | | hunter can overtake him-and will start out again as |
| actions than trailing the animal. I am never | | | | fresh as a daisy while the trailer will be about ready |
| discouraged when I follow a deer all day and fail to | | | | to call it a day and go home. |
| bag it. I feel that the knowledge gained that day will | | | | One of the most sporting methods of hunting deer, |
| be of help, if I ever again hunt the same territory. | | | | as well as one of the most difficult, and one that |
| I have been told that a man can outlast a deer on | | | | requires the most knowledge of deer and of the |
| the trail. I can believe this for, although I have never | | | | country to be hunted, is to travel the woods until a |
| followed one to the point of exhaustion, I followed | | | | deer is found and started, and then to anticipate its |
| two for a period of three days and they were very | | | | course so as to be able to circle the animal and shoot |
| tired deer before the end of the chase. On the third | | | | it as it approaches a predetermined spot. |
| day, they were continually seeking a chance to rest | | | | In order to do this the hunter must have the ability |
| and on several occasions, they actually lay down | | | | to find deer at different times of day. He must know |
| when they knew that I was close on the trail and | | | | what they will do when disturbed, how far they will |
| would soon force them to move. I saw those deer | | | | travel, where they are most apt to go and how to |
| twelve times on the third day and they were within | | | | take advantage of the terrain so as to arrive at a |
| shotgun range each time that I saw them. | | | | spot before the deer can get there. This requires a |
| I do not think that it was muscular fatigue that | | | | great deal of walking, often through thick brush and |
| permitted me to tire them out; I think that it was | | | | over rough ground, and often quite a bit of hurrying |
| more a matter of their digestive system revolting. A | | | | in order to head off the deer, but the man who bags |
| deer's feeding habits demand a period of rest and | | | | his deer in this manner has a right to be proud of his |
| tranquility in order for it to chew its cud and to | | | | feat. These several methods, often used in |
| dispose of the roughage that fills its paunch. I do not | | | | combination, are the principal legal ones. While going |
| know how long this food will keep in the first | | | | for hunting deer it is very necessary to know when |
| stomach without spoiling, but I am sure that, in time, | | | | they have their foods and rest for the food to get |
| this undigested food will cause distress. | | | | digested because this can help you in monitoring their |
| Deer feed normally twice a day, night and morning, | | | | moves. So get ready to run even to trail the whole |
| with the intervals between feeding devoted to rest | | | | day and if fortunate enough then you could end up |
| and digestion. If the animal is forced to move soon | | | | with a good fat deer at the end of the day. |
| after the morning feeding time, the digestion of this | | | | The ability of finding the deer at different times of |
| food is delayed until the deer has a chance to rest, | | | | day, their movements when disturbed and how far |
| and if the deer is kept on the move all day and | | | | they can travel once trailed, and the knowledge of |
| every day, the feeding routine will be disrupted so | | | | the different terrains can help you in overtaking the |
| that the evening feeding period becomes a digestion | | | | deer when on trail. Getting equipped mentally and |
| time. This restricts the deer to one feeding time each | | | | physically can be of good advantage in deer hunting. |