| The more knowledgeable a man is about the subject | | | | and, after a few years' experience, a proficient guide. |
| of deer hunting the more are his chances of | | | | Those who live in cities far removed from the deer |
| succeeding. But deer hunting is not a science and | | | | range do not have the opportunity to study deer at |
| there are always uncertainty corner left to be | | | | first hand. They must depend on others for hunting |
| explored in hunting deer. If it is reduced to an exact | | | | knowledge, which may be checked and confirmed by |
| science much of the pleasure of this sport would be | | | | occasional short hunting trips to deer ranges. |
| lost. | | | | As a boy, I lived in a farming section where there |
| There were fewer deer during my childhood days, | | | | were very few deer. Most of the men who were |
| when hunters have to look for other places to hunt. | | | | interested in deer hunting made annual trips to the |
| When I was old enough to go to hunt I became | | | | north woods for their sport. When I was old enough |
| interested in hunting and would go to hunt whenever | | | | to become interested in hunting, the deer invasion of |
| time permits. I would be called whenever the | | | | the farming country had started and there were |
| neighbors spots deer. This frequent spotting of deer | | | | enough deer in my "neck of the woods" so that I |
| also helped me to study their behaviors. The | | | | was able to spend quite a bit of time hunting them |
| knowledge that I gathered from the neighbors and | | | | and studying their habits. Neighbors knowing I was |
| from my own experience have helped me in my | | | | interested would report to me when and where they |
| hunts and giving people basic information about deer | | | | saw deer. I did not confine such activity to the deer |
| hunting. | | | | season, but went into the woods whenever I had |
| In deer hunting, as in any other line of endeavor, the | | | | time, for I felt that the more I could find out about |
| more knowledge a man has of the subject, the more | | | | their movements and habits, the more success I |
| successful he will be; if deer hunting could be reduced | | | | would have in predicting their actions during the open |
| to an exact science, much of the pleasure of this | | | | season. |
| sport would be lost. Luckily, this hunting will never | | | | This personal observation plus the information |
| reach that stage, for we are dealing with living | | | | furnished by neighbors soon gave me quite an |
| animals that have individual characteristics that do not | | | | accurate picture of the range and actions of the few |
| always conform to those of the herd as a whole. | | | | deer that frequented the country within a few miles |
| No matter how much knowledge we have of the | | | | of my home. The fact that there were few deer |
| actions of deer, there will always be the element of | | | | was a help in my study as I was able to check each |
| chance which makes the chase an uncertainty up to | | | | individually. I am sure that some of the things which I |
| the point where the animal is bagged. This pitting of | | | | learned in those days could not be learned in the |
| the hunter's knowledge of deer habits against the | | | | same section today because of the abundance of |
| uncertain actions of a deer is one of the things that | | | | deer in that area. Later I was able to study deer |
| make the sport so enjoyable. Even if the deer is able | | | | collectively and as a result, I became a fairly |
| to escape and the hunt is counted as a failure, there | | | | proficient hunter. Not because I could kill my share of |
| is always the pleasure of studying the result to find | | | | deer, but because I was able to predict with fair |
| out how and why the deer escaped, thus adding to | | | | certainty what a deer would do in a given situation. |
| the hunter's fund of deer knowledge. To many of us, | | | | To be a successful deer hunter learn as much as you |
| this learning about deer is one of the most | | | | can and from experienced sources. This will help you |
| satisfactory parts of hunting. | | | | to equip yourself when you are ready to go to hunt |
| Any person who is fortunate enough to reside in a | | | | deer. And even if you fail to hunt the first time, it will |
| deer hunting section and who is interested enough to | | | | always teach you new things why you failed. The |
| spend the time and effort, should be able to learn | | | | knowledge of deer hunting especially for people living |
| enough about deer to become a successful hunter, | | | | in the cities is a must before stepping into the forest. |