The Sauk Centre herald., 1907-11-28
A BIG DEER HUNT
Bunch of Seven NimrOds Have
Sport in Northern Minnesota
GET PLEANTY OF GAME
Some of the Experiences of the
Party While on their Outing
Of Nineteen

VI iNshOeCO"
There was a famous deer hunt up
III northern Minnesota this year.
There were seven in the party, i'll
Guiding three of Sank Centres MINI
rods. The party spent nineteen days
in the woods and its personnel was as
follows: r. l.. Palmer, Frank Carr,
Sam Ingram, Sauk Centre; o. ]. DAY.
idson, n. F. Schroeder, David Burton,
Wheaton; Stanley Wells, Litchfield.
They got sixteen deer and three
moose. AS result the Palmer
House boarders and good many 9th
er people in Sank Centre have been
enjoying game dinners recently.
The hunters went to Deer Lodge,
thence by a logging road to Big Fork,
then drove nine miles to their rend-
ezyous. a commodious house on a
large cleared tract where each sea-
son for the past four years they have
made their headquarters for deer
shooting. The owner Of the house
and land did The cooking and the
hunters did the rest.
The country IL that vicinity is ad-
mirably adapted to the hunting OF
big game This year the deer were
plentiful and hunters generally did
pretty well.
There are a number of good stories
il, connection with this particular deer
hunting party that have leaked out,
Notwithstanding the efforts of the
seven to prevent such an occurrence:
There was one "tenderfOOL' in the
party. He is a deliberate fellow and
in the morning when the other MINI
rods were ready to start out he fire.
quently was hot ready and was left
behind. He is also deliberate about
getting ready to fire--at least that's
what's the oher fellows say. One OF
them AYERS that Cn one occasion MI.
Tenderfoor was beating the bush with
companion when deer appeared.
The former took plenty of time 10
load and aim bu, when the time came
to fire the deer had disappeared. On
another occasion. so the story goes,
Mr. TenderfoOt espied a deer and call
ed out to his companion that he had
game in view. making a lot of noise
about it. why don't you shoot it?''
came back the query. Mr.. Tender
foot was evidently greatly excited,
for he put loaded shell into his gun,
withdrew it, put in another and took
it out, repeating the operation sever
al tmies Then the deer, scenting
danger, threw up it's tail, and leaped
into the distance, the white hair on
it's launches showing for moment in
which direction it had gone. Up
came the other hunter and inquired
why Mr.. TenderfOot hadn't shot.
oh" replied the latter, somebody
waved a white handkerchief and |
didn't shoot for fear of killing man.
At another time five of the party
were engaged in beating up the brush;
thereby driving deer through a swamp
and out into the open where they
could be easily seen, the other two
hunters standing on either side of the
open space to catch the game as it
came out into plain sight. The qulnt-
EFT were driving two bucks and two
does ahead of them, but one doe es-
capped them. The other three deer
halted when they saw the open place
and the two hunters. Just about tina,
time firing began and the trio OF deer
was killed. Five of the hunters
claimed to have landed game, two OF
them insisting that he had landed two
while the others were satisfied with
one apiece. This made a total OF