| Most of the time when we go to hunting we | | | | missing man may have met with an accident and |
| might have come across many wounded animals, | | | | may not be able to travel, but no man should go |
| and even tried to do their best to help the deer | | | | out of sight of camp, in the woods, without a |
| recover from their wounds, but some time it | | | | compass, and there is no real need for one with a |
| used to fail. These wastages in deer are also due | | | | compass to become lost. |
| to when you shot the animal in the evening when | | | | A man doesn't need to be a navigator or a |
| they are hardly visible. And before shooting the | | | | surveyor in order to be able to utilize this |
| deer it is always good to check the local laws of | | | | instrument. All that he needs is a steady mind and |
| hunting the deer. | | | | something to give him a positive general direction. |
| In the past twenty years, I have failed to | | | | Almost any cheap compass will do this, if the |
| recover two badly wounded deer and in each | | | | carrier will only believe it, and if he has taken the |
| case they were shot late in the day, and bad | | | | trouble to notice the direction in which he started |
| weather the following night made it impossible to | | | | when he left camp at the beginning of the hunt. |
| follow their tracks the next day. I am quite sure | | | | Most hunting camps are on a road, stream or |
| that both of these deer were killed though I | | | | pond that extends for some distance on each |
| never found any trace of one of them. Fox | | | | side of the camp and it is only necessary to find |
| tracks led me to the remains of the other. | | | | this road, stream or pond in order to find the |
| The hunter should be very careful while shooting | | | | camp. |
| late in the day, for, although visibility may appear | | | | When hunting in strange territory, I usually spend |
| to be good, the diminishing light can cause slight | | | | a part of the first day in familiarizing myself with |
| sighting errors which may cause a serious wound | | | | the territory in the immediate vicinity of the place |
| instead of a clean kill. Every shot should be | | | | where I am staying. I walk the road, if there is |
| investigated at the time and if there is the | | | | one, for at least a half-mile in each direction from |
| slightest chance that a deer has been wounded, | | | | camp, observing any outstanding features which |
| the hunter should return the following day and | | | | might serve as landmarks. I make short circles or |
| attempt to recover the animal. If he finds that he | | | | half-circles near the camp, noticing any unusual |
| cannot return on the following day, he should | | | | formations such as trees, rocks, brooks, wood |
| notify a game warden or a local guide of the fact | | | | roads, chopping or anything which might be of |
| that he has wounded a deer, so that the animal | | | | help in determining my exact location in relation to |
| may be recovered if such recovery is possible. | | | | the camp in case that I should become confused |
| Before a hunter snoots from or near a road, he | | | | when re- turning from a hunt. This procedure |
| should check the laws of the area in which he is | | | | would not help a man that is completely lost, |
| hunting, for in some states, shooting is prohibited | | | | because when he is in that condition, even the |
| within a specified distance of a road. In places | | | | back door of his own home is liable to be strange |
| where such shooting is legal, the hunter should use | | | | and unfamiliar enough to be unrecognizable. This |
| caution and not shoot lengthwise or across the | | | | does not seem possible, but I know from |
| road, even if this means passing up a chance to | | | | experience that a man who is merely turned |
| bag a deer. The safety of other motorists is | | | | around can look at familiar objects without |
| more important than killing the best deer that | | | | recognizing them and even after he has |
| travels the woods. | | | | recognized them, cannot believe that they are in |
| Every year we read or hear about hunters and | | | | their proper place. |
| fishermen becoming lost in the woods and of the | | | | When a hunter goes for hunting and makes the |
| trouble and expense that is taken to find them. | | | | shoot and sure that he has shot the deer, it is |
| The state wardens, the sheriff's department, | | | | better if he checks the deer or warns the |
| guides and other woodsmen all turn out to look | | | | warden. While going for deer hunting always |
| for the lost person. Not all of this is necessary. | | | | remember to keep your compass with you, so |
| The search is necessary if a man fails to show up | | | | that you have less chances of getting lost in the |
| at his camp soon after he is expected, but there | | | | woods. And try to always familiarize yourself with |
| is no need for the man to be lost in the first | | | | the places before hunting in strange or new |
| place. The search is necessary because the | | | | places. |