. With rod and gun in New England and the Maritime provinces [microform]. Hunting; Fishing; Hunting; Fishing; Chasse; Pêche sportive; Chasse; Pêche sportive. and the Maritime Provinces, 69 goes without saying, and it is a wonder tiiat he did not escape, but, in a moment, instinctively as it were, I diverted my aim from the grouse to the buck and he dropped ere he had gone two rods in liis Hight. " In addition to the method of deer-hunting I have named there are others which are more or less practised. Shooting from a boat or canoe which is paddled along the windings r f the shore of a lak
. With rod and gun in New England and the Maritime provinces [microform]. Hunting; Fishing; Hunting; Fishing; Chasse; Pêche sportive; Chasse; Pêche sportive. and the Maritime Provinces, 69 goes without saying, and it is a wonder tiiat he did not escape, but, in a moment, instinctively as it were, I diverted my aim from the grouse to the buck and he dropped ere he had gone two rods in liis Hight. " In addition to the method of deer-hunting I have named there are others which are more or less practised. Shooting from a boat or canoe which is paddled along the windings r f the shore of a lake or river is a favorite with many, being often quite successful and involving no laborious or difticult tramping. '* Tracking in a light snow is common practice, and in certain sec- tions hounding is still in vogue, but it is discountenanced by the great majority of sportsmen and is illegal in many of the Not a Sportsman's Way of Shooting a Dker. " Driving the deer into the water with dogs and then shooting the help- less game from a boat is also practised to some extent, but it is simply butchery and should be condemned. Hunting by ' Jacklight' at night is followed in some localities ; to many sportsmen it is undoubtedly a most fascinating method, but it is a very destructi" • and on that account is prohibited in Mcine a"id some of the other States. " My experif nee in jack-hunting is confined to that of a single night, but it is one I si all never forget.* It occurred during one of my oUtings, a number of yearr ..go, in the famous ' North Woods.' A small party of us had been encrmped for several days, subsisting on trout and the difter- ent ' store goods' we had brought with us. The supply of these, though abundant in quantity, soon grew monotonous in variety, and it was finally decided that nothing but ' fresh meat' could satisfy the cravings of our appetites. The term'frt^^h meat'in the woods usually implies venison, * Reprinted
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