fire-hunting

"Maybe you'd like to see some fire-hunting," said the captain.

Dick in the Everglades A. W. Dimock

"I don't think I'll try any fire-hunting, but I should like to see it done," said Mr. Barstow.

Dick in the Everglades A. W. Dimock

This restriction is absolutely necessary, whether considered as securing a provision for the navy,42 or as a check upon that very destructive practice, taken from the Indians, of fire-hunting.

Camps and Firesides of the Revolution 1902

Page 51 kind of animal killed, so that it afforded meat; and, consequently, fire-hunting was eventually prohibited by law.

Last of the Pioneers, Or Old Times in East Tenn.; Being the Life and Reminiscences of Pharaoh Jackson Chesney (Aged 120 Years). John Coram 1902

Floating and fire-hunting, though by no means to be classed among the nobler kinds of sport, yet have a certain fascination of their own, not so much for the sake of the actual hunting, as for the novelty of being out in the wilderness at night; and the noiselessness absolutely necessary to insure success often enables the sportsman to catch curious glimpses of the night life of the different kinds of wild animals.

V. The Black-Tail Deer 1885

They were destroyed ruthlessly by a system of fire-hunting, in which tracts of forests were burned over, by starting a continuous circle of fire miles around, which burnt in toward the centre of the circle; thus the deer were driven into the middle, and hundreds were killed.

Home Life in Colonial Days Alice Morse Earle 1881

Woodcock fire-hunting is almost entirely confined to

The Hive of "The Bee-Hunter," A Repository of Sketches, Including Peculiar American Character, Scenery, and Rural Sports 1854

Yet, woodcock fire-hunting is a fact, although most circumscribed in its geographical limits, the reasons for which, will appear in the attempt at a description of the sport.

The Hive of "The Bee-Hunter," A Repository of Sketches, Including Peculiar American Character, Scenery, and Rural Sports 1854

Yet, a resident in the vicinity or among the haunts of these birds, may live a life through, and make day hunting a business, yet be unconscious that woodcock inhabit his path; so much is this the case, that I do not know of the birds ever being hunted, in the common and universal way, in the places where fire-hunting them is practiced.

The Hive of "The Bee-Hunter," A Repository of Sketches, Including Peculiar American Character, Scenery, and Rural Sports 1854

"Torch-hunting," or "fire-hunting," as it is sometimes termed, is another method of capturing the fallow deer.

The Hunters' Feast Conversations Around the Camp Fire Mayne Reid 1850