Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-01-10
HUNTING AT DULUTH.
Sportsmen Go Out After Deer on the
Electric Cars Up There.
USUALLY BAG ONE BEFORE NOON
And Garry Home Supply of Yenison Be-
fore the Sun Goes Down.
BEAR AND PLENTY OF SMALLER GAME

Lovers of good hunting will be interested
in the following extracts from q private let
ter just received in this city from Duluth,
MINI. The writer enjoys the rather novel
experience, judged from an Eastern stand-
point, of riding out to the street car ter
minus and then getting off and shooting
deer in the adjacent woods, starting at 8 A.
NJ, getting deer by II, and returning with
them to town in the afternoon. He varies
the programme by hunting bear
In regard to my hunting, OF which you
kindly inquire, he says in his letter, the
deer season opened November ]. I went
out on Superior street car to the end Of
the line, leaving home about 8 o'clock.
hunted along the ridge toward Lester Park,
and killed nice buck mile back of Lon
don before II A M. There was light
sno W on the ground, but 1 saw the deer be-
fore 1 discovered his tracks. 1 had my
Winchester along, but shot and missed him
twice, when he ran away. I followed his
trail, scolding myself for want of skill, but
keeping good lookout far ahead, when
saw him again. This time, when tried to
take a sure aim, the gun missed fire and the
deer ran away. 1 still followed the tracks,
ard saw him again Just on the crest of the
ridge. 1 tried TO take sure aim and fred,
but he stood his ground. guess his curl
osity was excited to know what was
about, anyway He did not have long to
wait, for threw down the lever and put in
new she'll At the next fire he
ing of the brush (the fires having
burnt through there last summer),
1 concluded he was badly hurt, so, putting
another load in, walked up to the ridge
and saw him kicking his last about 20 feet
from where he stood when I shot him He
was shot through the neck, about two o inches
in front of his shoulder, the ball going
through, of course. I dressed him where
he lay, and finding no live timber on which
could hang him up, left him there until [
went to town and borrowed blackboard
from Mr.. McQuade and got him safely home
that same evening.
The next two d2vs, Mr.. Rex (from our
county, and L, hunted down the lake 13
miles but did not get any shots. We saw 4
good number of deer tracks, and the tracks
of two bear, but the snow was so nearly
melted we could not follow them with any
success. / went several times afterward
without any result, except seeing plenty Of
tracks, and soaring, some days, as many as
a dozen deer without so much as even seeing
one. Iou may think that strange, but tine
brush was so thick where the tracks led
that the deer would hear me, go as carefully
as 1 might I saw two or three and missed
shot at one.
One day, however, got good shot at a
nice buck, not hundred yards away, and.
vas very much chagrined to see him run
away as if nothing was the matter, and was
blaming myself for missing him, as I conld
find neither hair nor blood upon his trail.
However, 1 trudged along on his track,
hoping TO get sight Of him again, and, per-
chance, another shot. I did not go over
quarter of mile when I was equally sur
prised to see him on the ground, unable to
rise. I had shot him through the lungs,
but did not know it. This was before IL
A. NJ, and after dressing him L followed
two others many miles without even seeing
them. They went down to within 100 yards
of the lake, and thought perhaps they had
taken to the water to get rid of me, as they
sometimes do to escape the dogs, but the
Duluth and Iron Range train came along
and they ran back to the hills, where l did
not follow them, as it was nearly dark.
There are o great many deer killed about
Duluth and Superior. The shops were full
of them. 1 Rave seen three dead bear this
fall, but no live ores.
In October / went ont On the Northern
Pacific road 20 miles, where 1 remained
week at ii house kept by section boss. The
living was very good and board IS a week.
had the advantage of ride up and down
the road three miles either way, morning,
noon or night, which was great advantage,
giving me easv command of 10 or Y miles
of track. The large amount of grain spilled
along the track attracted some kinds of
game, and I shot a number of prairie
chickens that were thus lured to their doom.
1 also shot some partridges and few ducks
and caught very few fish, the best 10
pound muskallonge.