Those opposing our sport managed to get a game regulationthat put a crimp in the road hunter's fun. Deer hunting wasprohibited within an area 200 feet each side of the center lineof all federal, state, and county roads. That left only townshiproads for the road hunters. A few bow hunters were arrestedeach season because they shot from the wrong road. Part of
these no doubt were unintentional violations. There seem tobe more road hunters each year, but there are also more "BowHunters, Welcome" signs and more advertisements by Wis-consin resorts in the archery magazines.
Most of my hunting since '39, when the first northern areawas opened to bow hunters with a pre-rifle season, has beenwith the guests of a resort located across the lake from anycabin. During the long summers spent at our cabin, I studiedthe deer trails and then made blinds on some of the bestdrives. These blinds were mainly of the "fox hole" type—chairheight deep and about 4 feet in diameter. The dirt was piledin front of the hole. Any brush cut to open up the shootinglanes was piled on top of the dirt. A couple of poles laid acrossthe hole close to one side gave the hunter a dry seat and onethat enabled him to get one foot under for a better shootingstance. The deer soon became familiar with these blinds. Theywere old stuff and unsuspected by the time the season opened.I have seen tracks in one of these holes the day after I dug it.Such a blind puts the hunter even lower than the foldingstool, and he can't fall out of the hole as easily as off the stool.Hunters, of course, can stand in such a fox hole.
