One of the essential things in successful hunting is to know the country you are to hunt. Most all the firearms hunters belong to some camp or club and have hunted over the same territory year after year. They know every stream, every ridge, every stand of pine or hardwood; they know all the main game trails and all the deer crossings. If such a group should decide to use the bow in the pre-season for bow hunters, that group would have much in its favor.
The bow hunter, who does not know the country he intends to hunt, would do well to pick out a good place and
learn as much about it as possible before the season opens. Itwould pay that hunter to visit the hunting grounds as manytimes as he conveniently can and find where the deer feed, onwhat they feed, where they bed, the trails leading fromthe feeding ground to the bedding places, locate the crossingsand get all the information he can about the place. If it isnot possible to make these periodic trips, then the bow huntershould get to the hunting ground a day or so before theseason opens in order to find out as much as possible duringthat time.
