Be sensible and safe when buying and keeping your decorated tree inside this year. Zeb suggests retracing your steps a couple hundred yards. Then move down wind about 150 yards. Using your field binoculars, begin a very careful scan of the area in the direction the deer was originally moving. You may find the deer bedded down or standing at rest watching, listening, and smelling the air from where he came.
Deer always check their back trail.
The body of the book contains specific chapters on the best ways of going about recovering your deer. Not only is the book informative for all hunters, it is especially so for the new hunter. With Christmas just around the corner, this book would be an excellent stocking stuffer. See your local book store or some sporting goods stores. For waterfowlers, Erie, Chautauqua, Steuben, Cattaraugus and part of Chemung Counties have goose hunting until Jan. 23.