I've just finished the book with the above title. It is a compilation of the writings of E.N. Woodcock. He was a fur trapper and market hunter in the late 1800s and up to 1910.
Every time i hear an argument about the best deer rifle i think about how men like Woodcock nearly wiped the landscape clean of deer with anemic little black powder cartridges. He hated high-powered cartridges.
Anyone else read this book?
they nearly wiped the landscape clean because they didn't have to do it in 7 days they hunted any time they saw game not the hand full of days . they also didn't sit in a tree for 5 days watching wolves pass them by, nor worry about every 5 and 10 acre parcel being owned by some one else. and everyone hunted or allowed people to hunt.
they worked together during deer season 8 and 12 man drives move deer , you get good at shooting them on the run , but close they hunted for meat and not trophies
people complain about deer in their gardens now , eating their shrubs , used to be they just shot the deer and canned it up that deer never ate their garden again.
my great grandfather was known for taking meat deer while working the orchards he thought 22 hornet was the best deer gun around it was flat to 100 yards you could reach clear across the orchard and put a bullet right in the neck and they fell over . light , not too long , not too loud
WI is a great modern example of being able to hunt deer out , in 2003 the state started offering unlimited doe tags for every doe you shot you got a buck tag, season lasted October to January it was getting so that unless you were near a bunch of 5 and 10 acre house plots you didn't even see a deer. then people realized , the DNR is never going to thin out deer where they need to be reduced. metro areas , and 5&10 acre house plot areas the DNR stopped the program of 4 doe tags a day for free with your base license and the deer started coming back to other areas and fairly quickly. we are almost back to what we were seeing for deer in 2004