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Originally Posted by macallan25
You obviously have little to no knowledge of how hunting wild game helps animals and animal populations far more than it hurts them. (actually it really doesn't hurt them at all.)
For an example, i'll use deer. Go talk to any wildlife biologist and he will tell you that you absolutely have to control populations of male and female deer...especially on ranches and hunting leases where the numbers are higher on smaller pieces of property (anywhere from 2000 - 60000 acres.) If you don't kill them over breeding occurs and you start to get severe inbreeding which leads to diseases and pretty gnarly deformaties. Most often on larger ranches (such as the one I have) you will have an extra "Game Management" period after the end of the regular season to just kill Doe (females). Usu\ually are target number is around 35 - 50 deer per year.
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I thought we had a lot of deer around where I live in Georgia (a semi-rural area), until I went with a friend to visit her family in New Jersey. DANG. The deer are EVERYWHERE. All over the roads, in everyone's backyards, it's crazy. I was confused, because I figured there would be less deer there, considered it was a much more suburban area. Apparently, however, hunting is illegal in the whole state, so the deer population is out of control. The deer from all the surrounding states can even find refuge there, I guess. I mean, yes, deer are cute, I've seen "Bambi", too, but they also eat all your plants in your yard and are very much not good at all when you're driving at night (or, in this area of NJ, even if you're driving during the day since the things are so rampant - sheesh).