Show S salt a lt on 0 i i the th e tail ta ia i this Is how low we got it t and well pass it on oil to you oy dy careful observation and a lifelong study of wildlife I 1 have found that the best way and by all means meana the easiest to kill my deer and save all tile the meat Is to pick the place with care for my camp a spot near a a convenient parking place for my car a little above arid and slightly to the left near a stream or a good spring and where wood Is convenient pacing facing the east is always preferable so 30 the morning suns rays will save tarrying carrying an all alarm clock back of camp for one hundred feet there should be nearly level and beginning at this point the mountain should ralso raise at approximately a 50 or gl bl degree angle with a clear favl ravine no extending up tills this slope for yards at which point it intersects a me veil 11 used deer trail my aly next procedure is to cut some small aspen trees they cut easier than mahogany malio gany or spruce and build a threefoot three foot retaining wall wait 6 feet west of 0 my illy tent anil and under a large pine tret treb with a limb projecting at right angles from the tree in I a northerly direction 11 feet from the ground over this limb I 1 pass a three quarter inch hemp rope ropa loaded with a hay harpoon at the one n end n d and securely tied th to tl the ie b bole le of the tree at th the 0 other ten feet from where tho the ravine flattens out or ninety feet from the tent and 83 feet from tile the retaining wall in a stump icen inches high I 1 securely jabed it a double bitted axe with the blades parallel with tile the ravine the exposed bit to be razor sharp all this preparation is carefully attended to just before the opening signal at which time I 1 place my most comfortable camp chair at the correct spot east cast of the retaining wall and in a crotch of a limb left purposely I 1 place the barrel of my rifle carefully projecting up the ravine and at a point above the deer trail to a line equal to where the heart of the largest buck will come I 1 leisurely wait tor for his passing into view when he does so I 1 have but to press the trigger the gun having haung been previously cocked and tile the buck gives a bound into the air and a little to tile the left throwing him oft off tile the trail and into the 50 or 51 degree ravine where in dying lie he rolls to the double bitted axe ae securely embedded into the 6 stump seven inches high in passing over which he slits silts his neck while rolling the remaining 83 feet to the threefoot three foot toot retaining wall the rebound throws his hind legs into the hay harpoon hanging to the three quarter inch rope from the limb 11 feet high extending from the pine tree 6 feet west of my tent having previously sharpened my knives tile the removal of the intestines te Is an easy job plenty or of water from the nearby stream or spring makes it possible to flush tho the blood from the insides thoroughly 1 I open my deer tile alie full length and prop the cavity open with ticks sticks I 1 always remove remote the in musk ask usk sacs immediately my deer killed and dressed this way are nearly free from w wild I 1 I 1 d flavor I 1 leave a clean camp and always put out matches or fires old tinier timer taken from the plute county news of october 13 1939 |