If anyone knows of accounts of techniques and styles frontiersmen and Native Americans used to hunt, I'm super curious to learn more on their methods - and in particular, how they dealt with their scent.
Here are a couple of pages from Saxton Pope’s book Hunting with the Bow and Arrow describing how Ishi hunted.
Contents for: Hunting with the Bow and Arrow by Saxton Pope, 1923.
Contents for: Hunting with the Bow and Arrow by Saxton Pope, 1923.
www.archerylibrary.com
I have also read that Ishi used to smoke his clothes/body before a hunt but I don’t remember if I read it in Pope’s book or somewhere else.
In the pages above Ishi talks about understanding the wind and doing things to reduce his odor. I do find it a little humorous that so many hunters today seem to argue one side or the other like they are mutually exclusive.
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