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