A deer hunter is nearly 50% concealed if he gets down. Heis more like a stump and less like a man. The right clotheshelps too, in spite of the fact that deer are probably colorblind. Our biggest giveaway is our white faces. Some of thereal serious bow hunters paint their faces after having foundthat a face mask is a nuisance and hindrance. In the early 30'swe carried strips of canvass to sit or kneel on because of thesnow. We seldom had them very long for we would walk awayand forget them, and would then resort to cutting a few bal-sam boughs to put on the stump or on the ground.
Kneeling is tiresome business. Few archers can keep quietfor as much as 10 minutes on the knees. My record is prob-ably less than that, but I found, in 1936, a folding stool 13inches high that weighed just under 1 1/2 pounds and the blindproblem was solved. The folding stool has been a standardpiece of bow hunting equipment for some time in Wisconsin,and I guess archers in other states enjoy sitting too. It fits inthe pocket of the hunting coat or hangs on a hook on thequiver strap.
