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Wooden Spring:
OK, consider this as kind of a follow up to a video that I posted some time back about an old indian way of stalking and hunting a deer.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YkeQzdF0kYY

I caught a LOT of flak in PM's about this method - all from people who have never tried it themselves, or course.

Well, I spoke to a Cherokee over the weekend in North Georgia who hunts like this on private land in NC and swears it's the only way to hunt, but instead of any modern camo, he made himself a deer cloak - just like the way it used to be done. Although he didn't have any pictures to show me of his attire, he pointed me to a few pictures online that show how it's done. I just thought I'd pass it on.

Now, hunting on private, fenced-in land is one thing, but if you're hunting on public land, the question then becomes - how do you do this without getting shot????

Olanigw (Pekane):

--- Quote from: Wooden Spring on February 23, 2015, 10:11:53 am ---... how do you do this without getting shot????...

--- End quote ---

You don't

Traxx:
And poachers,dont just poach public land.
Id be way too nervous to hunt that way,this day n age.

It is told,that one of Ishi's relations was accidentally shot by a hunter that mistook him for a deer.Wonder if he was hunting this way?

An old friend,saw Ishi doctoring on this man and painted a picture of the scene.It was just days before Ishi was taken prisoner at the slaughter house in Oroville.

Traxx:
http://nmai.si.edu/exhibitions/memory_and_imagination/3.htm

Wooden Spring:
Yeah, unless I was wearing a blaze orange deer hide, I'd be nervous on public land too. I live in North Georgia which is deep in the heart of "yee-haw du-hut" country, and the woods are loaded with idiots who shoot at movement, not deer. There was an article recently in the GON about a hunter who was hit in the arm by one of the "hey y'all watch this" type of idiots who shot at movement, and nerely severed this poor guy's arm.

The Cherokee gentleman that I spoke with was picking on us white guys, that we don't hunt this way because #1 we're usually too lazy, and #2 we don't shoot before we're sure of what we're shooting at. That's the reason the laws are created for the lowest common denominator.

Whether or not that's true, it's a shame that in the world that we live in, it is difficult, if not impossible to do things "the old way."

Speaking of modern camoflauge, deer stands, scents, rattles, and the like, he told me "just because it's new, doesn't mean it's improved." I'll have to agree with him there. Sadly, unless I make a deer cloak out of blaze orange kevlar, I'll probably stick to summertime (out of season) "hunting" with a camera.

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