Bet the original poster regrets starting this post, this was done to death before and is going the same way. The study by Boydston and Gore(very apt for the huge amount of deer lost as wounded) is an eye opener for me, I have watched DVDs many years ago, and recent ones on you-tube. It was the best of the primitive tools primitive man had to feed his family, surely none of us on this site still have the need to feed their family as such today. Leave for those who still can only feed their families as a necessity due to still embroiled by circumstances that civilized people no longer are bound by. Testing your prowess can be done by hunting field targets as we do here, the wounded ones don't feel the pain of the live species. We in the U.K. are able to take unlimited deer all year round, across the water, there are tag systems and different types of weapons used modern, black powder, and bow, the number of deer taken is limited to far less than we can take in a month. I hope we never have to resort to the same stringent conditions, we have enough issues with attacks on our chosen sport that threads such as this, should have the thread locked when it becomes one that does not project our sport as a civilized past time. deerwarden.
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