The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1900-07-20
HOW TO HUNT DEER.
An Experienced HIND at the Sport
Gives Some Valuable Hints
to TyrOs.

The common deer has the widest |
range of any member of it's family in |
any part of the world. Its range is |
from the Atlantic to the Pacific, from |
Mexico to north Canada. 1t can to-day |
be found in every state and territory |
of the United States, says the Chicago |
Chronicle. Probably they are as plen-
tiful in Wisconsin and Michigan as in
any other states east of the Rocky
mountains. The common deer inhab-
it's alike dense woodland and open
plains, the highest mountain and the
lowest valley and the dryest plain and
marshy swamps. There are many ways
of successfully hunting them. The prin
cipal way is to strike tracks or hunt in
canoes. II is illegal in some states
to use dog in pursuit of deer or to
follow the murderous practice of jack
ing or firing hunting. One of the most
pleasant ways of hunting deer is either
in the early morning or late evening to
follow around the edges of lakes or
ponds in a canoe or up slow-runniug
streams, thus running across them
while they are feeding or resting at the
waters edge. An old hunter says hc
has counted as many as eight or ten
around little lake only a mile square
at one time. I'm experienced guide viii
generally succeed in padding the
sportsman up to within shooting dis
tunce of anyone thus showing. Should
anyone be in canoe without guiGr,
the old hunter says, he will give him
a few hints how to approach one;
First, don't attempt TO paddle up TO
one with the wind blowing from you
to him; always paddle up against the
wind to the animal. lie will not then
scent you. Paddle toward the deer
very slowly and do not let the paddle
make particle Of noise in entering
or Withdrawing from the water. 1t is
more than possible that the deer will
sight you and look up. At once cease
paGdling and hold yourself absolutely
rigid. Do not move a muscle. IN
short time he will commence feeding
again. and after he is well at it again
20 on padding once more. He may
look up three or four times, but creep
up on him gradually and he won't leave
the water. Should you make any noise
with your paddle or move when he
looks up he will leave the water and 60
back into the woods little distance,
and when your canoe gets up alongside
of where he was you will probably hear
a weesh-oo, weesh-oo, weesh-oo, and on
looking into the woods catch n sight of
his white flag triumphantly waving as
he is disappearing through the brush
and underground. On looking around
the lake you will see 1t has been COM
pletely deserted by any others that you
may have seen. lie has given the dan
ger signal and they have all acted on
| IL and gone back into the woods. Don't
go home disappointed and down-heart-
ed; draw your canoe into a quiet, Sc
cluded spot underneath some brush
and sit there and wait. II won't be very
long before some of them come back
again, and maybe one will come within
range Of your rife.
"If any day while you are in the
woods YOU feel tired and exhausted
from the previous days work, don't
think that there is no sport for you
| that day. Take your rifle and go and
sit on some log or bowlder alongside
| of some tote road-there are sure to
be some near your camp, wherever you
may be. If you have u taste for sketch
| iuc, so much the better; IL will help to
| kill time. Select some romantic spot
you can't go far in the woods without
| finding one--then sit down. Go on with
your sketch until you hear rustic
among the fallen dry leaves; look up,
and see n fine buck come to you, instead
of you Logging after him. Then comes
an opportunity to shoot the buck and
take his head back TO adcrn the hall or
dining-room of your home"