| If you are an occasional hunter, did you ever try | | | | acres down to practically nothing. When hunting the |
| hunting in group? Hunting with a companion is of | | | | smaller of these wood patches, one man would start |
| great way and it helps you also in your trail and | | | | and trail the deer, and his companion would watch |
| stalking the deer. But it is difficult to find a hunting | | | | the place where the animal could be expected to |
| companion who will be a help rather than a hindrance. | | | | leave the woods. In this type of hunting, the man |
| This is because unless they work, as a team, the | | | | who jumps and trails the deer should not try to stalk |
| chances of either of them sighting a deer depends | | | | or to intercept the animal, but should confine his |
| more on luck than it does on hunting skill. When | | | | attention to the trail unless he should overtake the |
| hunting with a group that is large enough to cover all | | | | deer and have a good chance for a shot. |
| probable crossing places, it is not so important for | | | | When the trailer hunts as he would if alone, he is apt |
| the trailer to stick to his trailing. It is not so important | | | | to cause the deer to change its course enough so |
| for the trailer to stick to his trailing. You can apply a | | | | that his companion will have no chance to prevent |
| different type of hunting when in group. | | | | the animal from reaching another piece of woods and |
| There are several ways in which two hunters may | | | | prolonging the hunt. Of course, when hunting with a |
| work as a team in deer hunting. They may go into | | | | group that is large enough to cover all probable |
| the woods and travel a short distance apart in an | | | | crossing places, it is not so important for the trailer |
| effort to stalk feeding or resting deer. If they start a | | | | to stick to his trailing. In such cases it is probably |
| deer, they may separate, with one man on the trail | | | | better to organize a "drive" which is a different type |
| and the other off to one side so that he may sight | | | | of hunting and requires different tactics. |
| the deer if it should turn in an effort to evade the | | | | While hunting with one or two companions, it is |
| trailer. They should keep in touch with each other so | | | | desirable for them to have a plan and for each man |
| that as soon as the deer's course may be predicted, | | | | to play his part in that plan until the deer's actions |
| one of the men can circle and cut in ahead of the | | | | prove it to be useless and the hunters have a chance |
| deer and intercept it on its expected course. This is | | | | to meet and devise another plan. Nothing discourages |
| where most hunting teams become individual hunters. | | | | a trailer more than to follow a trail to the place |
| If the deer fails to show up at the expected place at | | | | where a man has been stationed only to find that he |
| the expected time, the watcher is apt to start | | | | is gone. |
| hunting aimlessly instead of trying to intercept the | | | | Two hunters can work as a team in deer hunting. |
| deer at another point or rejoin his companion in order | | | | Even though they go separate ways they should |
| to determine the deer's new course. If two hunters | | | | keep in touch with each other so that as soon as the |
| are able to contact each other occasionally, they | | | | deer's course may be predicted, one of the men can |
| may be able to alternate on the trail and may hunt all | | | | circle and cut in ahead of the deer and intercept it on |
| day without too much fatigue to either. | | | | its expected course. Therefore as a whole you can |
| A large part of my hunting has been done in a | | | | sum up that there is a need to have good |
| farming country where deer were in patches of | | | | combination between the two of the hunters. |
| woods which varied in size from several thousand | | | | |