I've been riding in the forest many times before deer season and run
accross hunters out spotting for deer. Normally they haven't seen
anything and are groussing that "there are no deer in this forest." I'm
not sure they believe me when I tell them that I'd seen two herds of 10
to 15 each in the last hour. I see deer all the time when I ride. I've
had deer lope along beside us. So I suspect they don't fear horses.
Truman
Dabney Finch wrote:
A hunter once told me he could get
closer to wildlife on a horse than on the ground, because the smell of
the horse covered up the smell of the human to wildlife. (Apparently
to wildlife, the smell of a horse is not anywhere near as obnoxious as
the smell of a human... Come to think of it, I'd have to agree with the
wildlife on that....)
So maybe we get better sightings
than mere hikers or bikers, eh? Sure sounds like it from all the
wonderful sighting stories I've been reading here lately!
-- “Fragile as reason is and limited as law is as the
institutionalised
medium of reason, that's all we have between us and the t
“Fragile as reason is and limited as law is as the
institutionalised medium of reason, that's all we have between us and
the
tyranny of mere will and the cruelty of unbridled, undisciplined
feelings.”Felix Frankfurter
