How to Enjoy Deer Hunting In Group

If you are an occasional hunter, did you ever tryacres down to practically nothing. When hunting the
hunting in group? Hunting with a companion is ofsmaller of these wood patches, one man would start
great way and it helps you also in your trail andand trail the deer, and his companion would watch
stalking the deer. But it is difficult to find a huntingthe 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, thewho jumps and trails the deer should not try to stalk
chances of either of them sighting a deer dependsor to intercept the animal, but should confine his
more on luck than it does on hunting skill. Whenattention to the trail unless he should overtake the
hunting with a group that is large enough to cover alldeer and have a good chance for a shot.
probable crossing places, it is not so important forWhen the trailer hunts as he would if alone, he is apt
the trailer to stick to his trailing. It is not so importantto cause the deer to change its course enough so
for the trailer to stick to his trailing. You can apply athat 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 mayprolonging the hunt. Of course, when hunting with a
work as a team in deer hunting. They may go intogroup that is large enough to cover all probable
the woods and travel a short distance apart in ancrossing places, it is not so important for the trailer
effort to stalk feeding or resting deer. If they start ato stick to his trailing. In such cases it is probably
deer, they may separate, with one man on the trailbetter to organize a "drive" which is a different type
and the other off to one side so that he may sightof hunting and requires different tactics.
the deer if it should turn in an effort to evade theWhile hunting with one or two companions, it is
trailer. They should keep in touch with each other sodesirable 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 theprove it to be useless and the hunters have a chance
deer and intercept it on its expected course. This isto 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 atwhere a man has been stationed only to find that he
the expected time, the watcher is apt to startis gone.
hunting aimlessly instead of trying to intercept theTwo hunters can work as a team in deer hunting.
deer at another point or rejoin his companion in orderEven though they go separate ways they should
to determine the deer's new course. If two hunterskeep in touch with each other so that as soon as the
are able to contact each other occasionally, theydeer's course may be predicted, one of the men can
may be able to alternate on the trail and may hunt allcircle 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 asum up that there is a need to have good
farming country where deer were in patches ofcombination between the two of the hunters.
woods which varied in size from several thousand