Originally Posted by
trax
I stalk animals and get in close for a kill, but I still use a rifle. I'm just not that good with a bow and I don't want some poor hoofed beasty staggering around with an arrow that I stuck in it. I've never had to follow a blood trail man, cuz you know..dead animals don't stagger around making blood trails. I'm not a big fan of Tom Brown's either, I think he writes like he's the only authority on anything, but I do agree on knowing what you're doing in terms of your prey. Like I said in an earlier posting, I track animals by knowing them, not by following their footprints.