1853  Deer-hunting is a very exciting sport ; but I prefer still-hunting (or deer-stalking, as it is called in the Highlands of Scotland) to driving them into the lakes and rivers with hounds.
1883  In this respect it stands far ahead of still-hunting. . . .
1931  Still-hunting is an art learned from the Indian, an accomplishment in which few white men excell. . . .
1939  Still-hunting [is the] tracking down and creeping up on the moose through the deep, soft snow--a method necessitating all the arts of woodcraft.