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I believe there are 3 major components to HUNTING success; 1 you need the proper equipment (rifle, binoculars, clothing) 2 you need to have confidence in your shooting/hunting ability, and finally you need area and animal knowledge. It is my commitment to equip you with all the proper hunting information you need.

Whether looking to hunt Canada moose, trophy mule deer, Colorado bull elk, whitetail deer, or Trophy black bear hunting. here you will find an unbeatable resource of hunting tips and tricks. The videos and articles are compiled from experienced and professional hunters along with pros in the industry.

There are many advantages to hunting, besides the powerful economic benefits hunting is great outdoor recreation, and vital to successful wildlife management. A large and healthy wildlife population is a widely valued stock of communal interest in the welfare of farmers, landowners and foresters, across whose lands wild animals move for food and shelter. Deer have a voracious appetite and can change habitat more than any other animal. For many farmers, it entails an economic cost to have animals such as deer on their land, which damage their pastures, trees and hedge banks, forcing them to divert scarce resources for covering such damage.

Hunting has high ecological value. With a high concentration of deer presence, the health of any forest area also is bound to suffer. The animals browse all vegetation within their reach and often create a browse line by consuming the entire vegetation layer near the forest floor. Even though it sounds harmless on the face of it, the fact is that it can seriously affect the long-term health of a forested system. Deer can consume/damage young trees to a point, where the composition of the forest undergoes a change over a period of time by destruction of entire plant communities.

For a healthy environment, there has to be an interaction among organisms at all levels, whether plants, animals, insects or microbes. The eco-equilibrium can be upset, if even one link is missing at any stage that can lead to the elimination of certain species. A healthy forest system is home to numerous species of different types. For example, there may be a couple of hundred types of bees, scores of different butterfly, all of which require specific wildflowers during their lifecycles. Deer foraging can eliminate these flowers and make the bees and butterflies disappear along with countless bird species that spend entire lifetimes among ground vegetation within a few feet of the ground.

Many environmentalists oppose Hunting, since they consider killing of animals for sport repulsive and a persisting remnant of barbaric human history. However, it remains true that most people opposed to hunting are well intentioned. Their point of view is paradoxical because with proper game management, hunting serves as an important tool for wildlife habitat protection. It is a well-recognized fact that without habitat, there can be no game. One of the most effective ways, to achieve ecological sustainability is through wild game management, which allows controlled/regulated hunting. The hunter’s part in conservation complements the state’s environmental priorities that include conserving environmentally sensitive lands, providing citizens with continued outdoor recreation opportunities, as also being mindful of the best interests of the animals themselves. The sustainability of wild life population itself requires harvesting of specific species, to manage their numbers, and/or size/age in certain cases.

For example, without harvesting deer, their population increases dramatically and many starve to death during winter due to lack of food, to sustain the overpopulated herds. Hunting is a more humane way to controlling their population and also for pushing them into areas that provide a healthier environment, conducive to their survival and sustenance. Overpopulation of these wild animals makes them stray onto farms, where they damage crops and onto highways leading to collisions with fast moving traffic, causing serious damage to life and property, in addition to causing environmental degradation. Today, sport hunting has evolved into one of the healthy ways of keeping animal population in check.

Man initially hunted to provide food for the table. With passage of time, it branched out into hunting for sport, to include a display of man’s superior strength and skill over the strongest of wild animals. Hunting is regulated by rules and regulations set by the government. It is necessary for every hunter to abide by these rules. This is a great way for hunters to learn and become responsible gun/firearm owners. Therefore, hunting serves also as a tool to educate citizens about the responsible use of firearms and develop respect for weapons and animals. It builds and strengthens camaraderie among fellow hunters and helps them learn about the ethics of hunting and also their responsibility towards maintaining natural habitats from each other.

Hunting is positive for young men and children to get involved in the outdoors to develop their natural senses and special skills through this excellent sport. With their wits pitted against animals they are taught survival skills by Nature. ‘Greenhorns’ need to learn stealth, develop ability for intense concentration, hone their auditory and olfactory senses, build up stamina and learn techniques for surviving against odds in the wild. It makes better and mature men out of them and the character shows through their overall personality, as others perceive them as more rounded people.

Getting others involved in the hunting community is important especially if we want to preserve our hunting heritage for future generations. This common involvement builds team spirit and camaraderie among hunters. Learning mutually from one another, hunters develop strong personal bonding. A dedicated and well informed hunter is fit for being an ethical spokesman for the hunting community. Being well versed in the ethics of hunting, he can convincingly put forward the lesser-understood aspect of the ethical responsibility of a hunter to others.

The general decline in the number of hunters has become a cause for concern for hunting associations and government bodies, including the Department of Natural Resources, which are knowledgeable and aware of the positive outcomes of hunting. For example, the State of Virginia is experiencing severe decline in the sale of hunting permits. The result has been a shortage of money for its natural resources programs. This gave rise to the idea to boost interest in hunting outdoors especially for the young through educational instruction and supervised training programs.