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Imagine yourself driving home from a grueling day at work. Your completely exhausted, and all you can think about is how good its going to feel to get out of your work clothes and into a cozy pair of sweats. When all of a sudden, BOOM!! A deer jumps out in font of you. You hit it head on and total your car. Now let me ask you, are you for or against deer hunting? Had a hunter had a chance to get that deer earlier, you could have been home already and not have to worry about finding a new car.

The greatest benefit to deer hunting is population control. We as humans, have pretty much eliminated the deer's natural predators. If we didn't hunt to keep their numbers down, then the deer population would grow uncontrollably. Eventually ending the species due to starvation and disease. So, in a way, we are actually saving a species by hunting them. And believe me when I say that it's better, and cheaper, to hit them with an arrow or a bullet than with your car.

In addition to population control, hunting is also great exerciser. Not only for the body, but for the mind as well. It gets you reacquainted with the sights and sounds of the outdoors. Things that have all been but forgotten due to the luxury of city life. It gives guys a chance to get away and be guys. No wives or girlfriends around to tell them they can't cuss, spit, grunt, or scratch.

Now I know these animal rights activists are saying that hunting and killing animals is cruel. They say that hunters are hunting just to go out and kill something. And I'm sure if you ask any one of them, they'd say that they have never killed anything in their lives. Ask them to take a look at their windshield next time they stop at a gas station and to count how many things they didn't kill on the way there.

You may not of know it, but hunting is also great for the economy. It provides over

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