is whitetail Deer hunting is essential for the deer population?

Question

There are so many deer taken every year.. dating back for a long time.. there are people who say deer hunting should be illegal.. if it was stopped the deer popultion would be out of control right?

Answer 1

Previously, the deer population was kept in check by predators, mainly wolves. When the wolf population was decimated by expansion of farming communities, the deer population began unchecked growth.

Now, these deer face inadequate food supplies, which leads to wasting sickness.

The idea behind the hunt is to provide a check to this population growth. In a state with a proactive DNR, the size of the herd(s) is well known, and the resulting number of licenses granted is representative of the amount of deer in excess of the optimum population.

Answer 2

Yes. The population would spiral out of control resulting, first, in inbred animals and a "watering down of the gene pool". Secondly, there would be a large increase in disease which would untimatly decimate the entire population. In areas without agricultural crops where the deer rely on naturals foods such as the mast of nut producing trees they would deplete this natural food in winter and die even before succumbing to disease. Before dying out however they would kill ten's of 1000's of trees by eating the bark in an attempt to survive. Add to that billions of dollars in damage to agricultural crops and automobile accidents.

Game management is placed in the hands of wildlife professionals such as biolologists and professional wildfife managers. Bag limits are set based on scientific data, not on "how cute the pretty deer are." And no you can't give birth control pills to deer. The only viable way to control deer or any wilflife population is through controlled hunting and trapping.

Some cities hire so called sharpshooters to shoot deer. Most of these people anr no more "sharpshooters" than I or any other hunter. So the deer die by being shot but in this scenerio the city pays the hunter. Enlightened cities now allow bowhunting. Population is controlled by hunters useing the short ranged bow and arrow so as to minimize and risk of an accident, and the hunter pays the city for the right to hunt. NO BRAINER!!!!!

Answer 3

If all you will shoot is white tail, then the two will do. yet once you some day prefer to shoot an Elk, or a Black undergo, or a Moose, then the 30-06 is a greater perfect decision. I say purchase a Remington in 30-06 with a 24 inch barrel, and you will have a brilliant shooter. positioned a 2 to 7 scope on it, and you have a appropriate looking gun for pictures 25 meters to 3 hundred meters. If all you have is a finished of six hundred money, then seem right into a HR1871 rifle. A stainless Handi Rifle in 30-06 will run approximately 250 to 3 hundred money. then you will have 3 hundred for a outstanding scope. it extremely is greater perfect it spend the money on a outstanding scope than a appropriate rifle. will not be able to hit what you won't be able to confirm. good success.

Answer 4

Yes, because not many states have the natural predators that hunt deer as a food source. They would over populate and cause starvation and diseases would run rampant in heards across the country. Hunters have payed to bring deer numbers back as high as they are now, and without hunters to keep them in check they would be thick as flies.

Answer 5

Deer populations are at the highest point they have been at in a long time. The limitations on the number of deer you can take helps to prevent loss of population. Besides I feel a lot better when I shoot a trophy buck and use its meat than when I see them lying along the road.

Answer 6

That's what all the Bambi killers say. I believe the truth of the matter is that there would not be sufficient food for the deer population if they were not thinned out. There is a state park near our home that has had to bring hunters in when the deer population got out of control.

Answer 7

Believe it or not... 200 years ago, a venison dinner was the norm because contrary to the movies, not everyone had cattle to butcher. Through the 1930's and fourties, Americans were more self sufficient and therefore the deer and elk populations were in steep decline. Thanks to organizations like the NRA and other sporting organizations,most states have instituted game management policies which have enabled these species to not only return to their former population levels but in many areas would double or even triple the amount of game that was available to hunt, believe it or not...200 years ago!

Answer 8

I'll take a bullet any day when the alternative is slow starvation or wasting disease. Hunting is essential because there aren't enough natural predators to control the population. It's not the lesser of two evils--it's the way nature works. You might as well get sad when a pride of lions takes down a zebra.

Answer 9

The population would explode resulting in more auto collisions and the animals would over browse the habitat and then move into urban areas and eat the shrubbery, roses etc. After this they would weaken and die from starvation and disease. Also it may surprise you to know that sportsmen are the ones that pay for habitat improvement through the gear they buy and hunting license sales and permits not only for game animals but for places you can't even hunt like bird viewing areas.

Answer 10

it is essential. in the southeast US, the land is cleared in such a way that there are fields and farms interspersed with several acres of woods in between. this is the ideal habitat for deer. it enables them to find food in the field and hide in the woods. this causes the carrying capacity of the land to rise as far as deer are concerned. it allows the weak and unfit deer to survive. it also brings them into closer proximity with humans, cars, and other deer. if the deer population is not kept at a level that keeps the weaker ones from surviving and prevents disease from spreading rapidly through the population, the population will become unstable. it will boom and bust from year to year based on disease and the effects of weak and undesirable genetics.