| If you fail to get any deer to hunt you can always | | | | thing until it starts to run. It is often too late then to |
| take a quiet walk and enjoy the wilderness of the | | | | do anything except to take a snap shot, through the |
| forest and the beautiful sights. And on the ways I | | | | brush, at a target that is hard to hit. When hunting in |
| have hunted down quite a few deer. | | | | this manner, I do not look for deer, but watch for |
| A hunting method favored by many is to walk the | | | | anything that seems to be unusual or out of place. |
| woods roads and trails as quietly as possible, usually | | | | By doing this, I see many things, as well as an |
| against the wind, with the hope of jumping a deer to | | | | occasional deer. |
| shoot. I enjoy this type of hunting in the less heavily | | | | Motion, of course, is the first thing that attracts the |
| populated areas. By traveling quietly while constantly | | | | eye, but motion in the woods seldom indicates a |
| watching for game, a man will see many wilderness | | | | deer. I do not know of any place where deer so out |
| sights that will often repay him for the walk even if | | | | number other animals that a person could expect all |
| he fails to bag a deer. I have killed quite a few deer | | | | motion to be that of deer. Squirrels, rabbits, foxes, |
| by using this method and have seen many others | | | | minks, weasels, grouse and other birds and animals |
| that I did not shoot. On two occasions I have seen | | | | will attract the eye, so that I have always had a |
| sleeping deer before they awoke. I permitted one of | | | | slight feeling of surprise when motion in the woods |
| these to make a successful escape without firing a | | | | turns out to be a deer. Nobody should have any |
| shot, but I killed the other a nice eight-point buck-as | | | | trouble in identifying the motion of a deer that is |
| soon as it started to run. I have always considered | | | | startled and leaves the area in a rush with an |
| that these two hunts were equally successful, | | | | upraised flag, but the one that tries to sneak off, or |
| although a memory was the only reward for one of | | | | stands undecided, is a different matter. These deer |
| them. | | | | may appear to be something other than deer and |
| One of the most important requirements for this | | | | must be positively identified before it is safe to |
| type of hunting is good eyesight. Not necessarily | | | | shoot. Sometimes motion that is thought to be |
| 20-20 vision, but the ability to evaluate the constantly | | | | something else turns out to be a deer, and in such |
| changing scene and to distinguish the difference | | | | cases the person who is able to see well will benefit |
| between shadow and concrete objects. The ability to | | | | by having a good hunting vision. |
| pick out one of the best camouflage of animals in its | | | | Good eyesight is a must for hunting deer to |
| natural habitat. This hunting vision is not a thing that | | | | constantly evaluate the movements of the animal. It |
| we are born with. It must be acquired and cultivated | | | | can be acquired by experience. And the books do |
| by hunting experience. | | | | not teach us all the tricks of the game which you can |
| Most people seem to be looking for a picture-book | | | | learn from doing them. |
| deer when in the woods and fail to recognize the real | | | | |