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The Deer Hunter; Tim Forster Loves Animals. So When His Arrow Flies, He Hopes His Aim Is True.
From: The Washington Post
Date: 19971204
Author:Phil McCombs
"They call me Deerslayer . . . and perhaps I desarve the name, in the way of understanding the creatur's habits, as well as for sartainty in the aim."
-- "The Deerslayer" (1841), by James Fenimore Cooper
At dusk on a desolate storm-blasted marsh, a lone hunter in camouflage -- all but indistinguishable amid the mist and swamp grass -- draws his bow and releases an arrow into the primordial gloom. It is a timeless act, ancient as man. All evening, the small sika deer have been moving like spirits, unseen, elusive. The high keening wails of the bucks arc ghostly across the flats. Now, ...
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