| Hunting is a great adventurous hobby. Hunting | | | | result in depleting the herds so that deer |
| of animals like Deer is interesting. For some | | | | became practically nonexistent in the more |
| hunting deer is also passion. It has a long | | | | heavily populated areas. Foresighted men saw |
| history and even many fairytales about deer | | | | the need of protecting these deer for future |
| hunting. Different countries have different | | | | generations and gradually the different |
| rules for deer and their hunts. Some | | | | states assumed control and undertook the |
| restricts them and some allows them to be | | | | management of the deer herds. |
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| beautiful animal and its existence. | | | | Restrictions were very liberal at first, but |
| | | | even so, there was opposition to them by many |
| Deer are well distributed over the world, but | | | | hunters. This opposition to restrictions is |
| the Virginia deer is a distinct species that | | | | still held by many short sighted people at |
| is native to America. This fact, together | | | | the present time, but without these controls, |
| with the American principle of freedom to own | | | | deer hunting as we know it would not be |
| arms and the freedom to hunt, makes the | | | | available to the general public as it is |
| hunting of these animals an American | | | | today. With the deer population in its |
| institution. | | | | present healthy condition, the hunter has an |
| | | | opportunity to enjoy this sport at its best |
| Previous to the discovery of this country, | | | | at a cost that almost anyone can afford. Some |
| deer, as well as all other game, were the | | | | years ago, I saw statistics that showed that |
| property of the land owning nobility and the | | | | it cost, on an average, a little over a |
| right to hunt was denied the common man. This | | | | hundred dollars to bag a deer. These figures |
| was all changed with the settling of America. | | | | were based on the amount of money spent by |
| Deer were plentiful in this new land and | | | | hunters and on the number of deer killed. |
| belonged to the man who could bag them. Here | | | | Probably these figures are considerably |
| the hunting of deer ceased to be a sport and | | | | higher at the present time, due to inflated |
| became a serious business, often of almost | | | | prices. This does not mean that every man |
| life-and-death importance to the early | | | | that shoots a deer must spend this amount of |
| settlers. | | | | money on the hunt. Those who hunt and fail to |
| | | | bag a deer outnumber those who are lucky |
| In the struggle for existence, these animals | | | | enough, or who have sufficient hunting |
| played an important role and the development | | | | intelligence, to be successful in their |
| of this country would not have advanced as | | | | hunting efforts, so that average costs do not |
| rapidly as it did without the aid of the meat | | | | mean much to those who kill their deer. |
| and skins that they supplied. As the country | | | | |
| became more thickly settled and the practice | | | | The deer not only provides good meats but |
| of animal husbandry became general, the | | | | also has helped mankind in its fight with |
| importance of venison as a food became less. | | | | rough weathers. Therefore there is a growing |
| This did little to ease the hunting pressure | | | | awareness to protect the increasing hunts for |
| on the deer herds because there was still a | | | | this animal because their unrestricted hunts |
| demand for such a choice food and because an | | | | is signaling its alarming sounds of its |
| increasing number of people, hunting on a | | | | extinction from most the forests of the |
| sport basis, were soon competing with the | | | | world. |
| market hunters. This unrestricted hunting | | | | |