|
All that fair chase really means is that a free-ranging animal can evade or avoid a hunter. The animal can hide and not be seen or it can run and rely on speed and distance to avoid harm.
Baiting a leopard is about the only halfway reliable method to ever get a shot at one. Ruark wrote at length about leopard hunting; it's worth the reading. One aspect is the requirement to sit or lie for some three hours without moving, without brushing away biting bugs, and without making any sound. And if you don't make a pretty-much perfect shot, you then have the pleasure of finding and finishing an animal that's about your size and very much faster and meaner.
I do the same basic deal when I use a wounded-rabbit call to entice ol' Wily Coyote, but there is nowhere near the self-discipline or risk involved...
Art
|