“Snapshot Saturday”
Like the creatures of the forest, an 18th-century woodsman should utilize the cover to his or her greatest advantage. Certainly, sitting behind the oak in the midst of a hemlock bush is not as comfortable as leaning back against the tree’s trunk, but the difference from a deer’s perspective is striking. A trading post hunter, two ridges east of the River Raisin in the Old Northwest Territory, in the Year of our Lord, 1798.
