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I horseback u II il most
I hunting oti horseback Is
I .1 t'ltlt hi 1u .n.l
to bring out the best nud
manliest qualities lu the
men ho follow the in.
and they should be encouraged In
every way. Ing after t lie reflemao.
as well on the game be bunts, ahull
have vanished from the plains, tbe
cattle country will afford fine sport In
coursing liareir, and both wolvcii and
deer could lie followed and killed with
parks of properly-trained bounds, ajid
such aport would be even more excit
ing than stlll-buntlng with tbe rifle.
It Is on tbe great plains lying west of
tbe Missouri that riding to bounds will
!n the end receive Its fullest develop
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But at present It Is almost unknown
In the cattle country; and the ranch
nan who loves sport must try stlll
'luntlng and by stlll-buntlng Is meant
pretty much every kind of chase where
:t single man, unaided by a dog, and
almost always on foot, outgenerals a
leer and kills It with the rifle. To do
'his successfully, unless deer are very
plenty and tame. Implies a certain
knowledge of tbe country, and a good
knowledge of tbe habits of tbe game.
Tbe hunter must keep a sharp look-out
for deer sign; for, though a man soon
,rets to have a general knowledge of
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HUNTING
DEER ON
HORSEBACK
BY
THEODORE ROOSEVELT
the kind of places In which deer are
likely to be, yet be will also find tbat
they are either very capricious, or else
tbat no man has more than a partial
understanding of their tastes and lik
ings; for many spots apparently just
suited to them will be almost uninhab
ited, while In others they will be found
where It would hardly occur to any
one to suspect their presence. Any
cause may temporarily drive deer out
of a given locality. Stlll-buntlng. es
pecially, Is sure to send many away,
while rendering the others extremely
wild and shy, and where deer have be
come used to being pursued In only
one way, It Is often an excellent plan
to try some entirely different method.
A certain knowledge of how to track
deer Is very useful. To become a really
skillful tracker Is most difficult: and
there are some kinds of ground, where,
for Instance. It Is very hard and dry.
or frozen solid, oo which almost any
man will be at fault. But any one with
a little prnctlce can learn to do a cer
tain amount of tracking. On snow, of
course. It Is very easy; but on the other
hand It Is also peculiarly difficult to
avoid lielng seen by the deer when the
ground Is white. After deer have been
frightened once or twice, or have even
merely been disturbed by man. they
get tbe halilt of keeping a watch back
on their trail: and when biiow has fall
en, a man Is such a conspicuous object
deer sco him a long way off, and even
the tamest become wild. A deer will
often. Iiefore lying down, take a half
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circle back to one aide and make Its
bed a few yards from Its trail, where
It can. Itself unseen, waten any person
tracing; It up. A man tracking In snow
need to pay very little beed to the
footprints, which can be followed wltn
out effort, but requires to keep up the
closest scrutiny over the ground ahead
of htm. and on either side of the
trail.
In the early morning when there Is
a heavy dew the footprints will be as
The bullet had broken the backs of both.
plain as possible In the gruss. and can
then be followed readily: and In any
place where the ground Is at all damp
they will usually be plain enough to
be mude out without difficulty. Y hen
the ground Is hard or dry the work Is
very much less easy, and soon becomes
bo difficult as not to be worth while
following up. Indeed, at all times, even
In the snow, tracks are chiefly of uso
to show the probable locality la which
a deer may be found; and the still-
hunter Instead of laboriously walking
along a trail will do far better to mere
ly follow It until, from Its freshness
and direction, he feela confident that
the deer Is In some particular apace of
ground, and then hunt through It, guld
Ing himself by bis knowledge of the
deer's habits and by tbe character of
the land. Tracks are of most use In
showing whether deer are plenty or
scarce, whether they have been In tbe
place recently or not. Generally, signs
of deer are Infinitely more plentiful
than the animals themselves although
In regions where tracking Is especially
difficult deer are often jumped with
oat any sign having been seen at all.
Although still hunting on Toot Is on
tbe whole the best way to get deer,
yet there are uiauy places where from
the nature of the land the sport can be
followed quite as well on horseback,
than which there Is no more pleasant
kind of bunting. The best shot I ever
made In my life a shot Into which
however, I am afraid the element of
chance entered much more largely
than the element of skill was made
while hunting black-tall on horseback.
Wc were at that time making quite
a long trip with the wagon, and were
going up tbe fork of a plains river In
Western Montana. As we were out
of food, those two of our number who
usually undertook to keep the camp
supplied with game determined to
make a hunt off back of the river after
black tall; for though there were some
white-tall In the more densely timbered
river bottoms, we had been unable to
get any. It was arranged that the
wagon should go on n few mils, and
then halt for the night, as It was al
ready the middle of the afternoon
wheu we started out The country
resembled lu character other parts of
the cattle plains, but It was absolutely
bare of trees except along the tied of
the river. The rolling blls sloped
steeply off Into long valleys and deep
ravines. They were sparsely covered
with course grass, and also with an
irregular growth of tall sage-brush,
which in some places gathered lute
dense thickets. A beginner would
have thought the country entirely too
barren of cover to hold deer, but a
very little experience teaches one that
deer will le found In thickets of such
short nud sparse growth that It seems
as If they could hide nothing; and,
what Is more, that tliey will often
skulk round In such thickets without
liolng discovered. And a black tall Is
a bold, five animal, HUng to go out In
comparatively oieii country', where he
must ti list to his own powers, and tint
to Hiiy concealment, to protect hltn
from danger.
Where the hilly country Joined the
alluvial river IxUtom, It broke off short
Into steep bluffs, up which none but a
Western pony could have cllmlied. It
Is really wonderful to see what places
a pony cau get over, and the lndift'cr
euoe with which It n s tumbles,
lu getting up from the Uttom we went
Into a washout, and then led our po
nies along a clay ledge, from which we
turned ott and went straight up a very
steep sandy ku'.T. My eouipanlou was
ahead. Just as he turned off the ledge, I
ami as 1 was right underneath him. his
horse. I;i plur.g.ug to try to get up the
sand bluff, ocrlalaiuvd Itself, and,
aft-M- sianduu- erect on Its hind legs for
a siv.miiI. came over backward. The
mv.'!is pause while it s:,m,1 bo;t np.
right, gave tno time to make a frantic
leap .vit of the way with my pony.
w!ii, h seramhled ailcr me. nud we
Is-'.u v'.w g witU bands and hoofs to :..
side of tbe bank, while the other horse
took two as complete somersaults as I
ever saw, and landed with a crash at
the bottom of the wash-out. feet upper
most I thought It was done for, but
not a bit After a moment or two It
struggled to Its legs, shook itself, and
looked round In rather a sbame-faced
wuv. apparently not In the least the
worse for the fall. We now got my
pony up to the top by vigorous pulling,
and then went down for the other,
which at first strougly objected to
making another trial, but. after much
coaxing and a good deal of abuse, took
a start and went up without trouble.
For some time after reaching the top
of the bluffs we rode along without
seeing anything. When It was possi
ble, we kept one on each side of a
creek, avoiding the tops of the ridges,
because while on them a horseman can
be seen at a very long distance, and
going with particular caution when
ever we went round a spur or came up
over a crest. The country stretched
away like an endless, billowy sea of
dull-brown soil and barren sage-brush,
the valleys making long parallel fur
rows, and every thing having a look
of dreary sameness.
At length, as we came out on a
rounded ridge, three black-tall bucks
started up from a lot of sage-brush
some two hundred yards away and be
low us. and made off down hill. It
was a very long shot especially to try
running, bus, as game seemed scarce
and cartridges were plenty, I leaped
off the horse, and. kneeling, fired. Tbe
bullet went low, striking In line at the
feet of the hindmost I was very high
next time, making a wild shot above
and ahead of them, which bad the ef
fect of turning them, and they went
off round a shoulder of a bluff, bebig
by this time down In too valley. Hav
ing plenty of time I elevated the sights
(a thing I hardly ever do) to four hun
dred yards and waited for their re
ippearance. Meanwhile they had si
lently gotten over their fright, for
pretty soon one walked out from the
other side of the bluff, and came to a
standstill, broadside toward me. He
was too far off for me to see bis
boms.
As I was raising tbe rifle another step
ped out and began to walk towards tbe
first. I thought I might as well have
as much of a target as possible to shoot
at and waited for the second buck to
come out farther, which be did Im
mediately and stood still just along
side of the first I aimed above his
shoulders and pulled the trigger. Over
went the two bucks! And when I
rushed down to where tbey lay I found
I had pulled a little to one side, and
the bullet bad broken the back of
both.
While my companion was dress
ing them I went back and paced off
tbe distance. It was just four hundred
and thirty-one long paces; over four
hundred yards. Both were large bucks
and very fat, with the velvet hanging
In shreds from tbelr antlers, for It was
late In August. Tbe day was waning
and we had a long ride back to the
wagon, each with a buck behind bis
saddle. When we came back to the
river valley It was pitch dark, and It
was rather ticklish work for our heav
ily laden horses to pick their way down
tbe steep bluffs and over the rapid
stream; nor were we sorry when we
saw ahead under a bluff the gleam of
the camp fire, as It was reflected back
from the canvas-topped prairie srSoon
Hi U-gt luirtily no much oi tu-itched.
er. that fur the time being represented
heme to us.
This was much the best shot I ever
made; and it Is lust such a ah.it
ny one will occasionally make If he
takes a go.nl many chances and fires
often at ninees where the odds are
greatly against his hitting. I suppose
had fired a dozen times at animals
four or five hundred yards off, and
now. by the doctrine of chances, I hap
pened to hit; but 1 would hove been
very foolish if i naJ thought for a
moment that I had learned how to hit
at over four hundred yards. I have
yet to see the hunter who can hit
with nny regularity nt tbat distance,
when be tias to Judge it for himself;
though 1 have seen plenty who could
make such a long range hit now and
then. And I have noticed that such
a hunter. In t.ilkiug over his experi
cn,v, was certaiu soon to forgot tbe
numerous tuUscs Le nude, and to say,
25, 1908.
and even to actually think, that his oc
oaslonal bits represented bis average
shooting.
One of the finest black-tall bucks I
ever shot was killed by lying out In a
rather unusual place. I was bunting
mountain-sheep. In a stretch of very
high nud broken country, and about
mid-day. crept cautiously up to tbe
edge of a great gorge, whose sheer
walls went straight down several hun
dred feet. Peeping over the brink of
the chasm I saw a buck, lying out on
a ledge so narrow as to barely hold
him. right on the face of the cliff wall
opposite, some distance below, and
about seventy yards diagonally across
from me. He lay with his legs half
stretched out, and his head turned so
as to give me an exact center-shot at
his forehead; the bullet going In be
tween his eyes, so that bis legs hardly
so much as twitched when he received
It.
It was toilsome and almost dan
gerous work climbing out to where be
lay; I have never known any other
Individual, even of this bold and ad
venturous species of deer, to take Its
noonday siesta In a place so barren of
all cover and so difficult of access
even to the most sure-footed climber.
This buck was as fat as a prize sheep,
and heavier than any other I have
ever killed; while bis antlers also
were, with two exceptions, the best 1
ever got.
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In It be engraved the legend "From A 1
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from Anthony to Zenobla. To bis as
tonish men t. on calling for the ring the
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general development of the
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