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It was a cold day, just about that time when it's dark but still light, when all the deer come out to eat. Then a tremendous noise comes from a deer stand and a deer falls... I had killed my first ...

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  • One of the most important impacts hunting has on the economy of our nation is the amount of employment required to keep things running. A vast amount of people are needed to support the hunting itself. Some jobs may include, the clothes maker and seller for hunting gear, the firearms producers, ammunition makers, off-road vehicle producers, store owners and employees selling supplies for the hunting trip, all the way to the owners and employees of the hotels in which the hunters stay. Without hunting, the 200 million trips which hunters went on in 2001 wouldn’t have occurred; this would result in a $5.3 billion loss to the hotel and food service industries
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      Hugh B on 06 May 13
       
      "One of the most important impacts hunting has on the economy of our nation is the amount of employment required to keep things running. A vast amount of people are needed to support the hunting itself. Some jobs may include, the clothes maker and seller for hunting gear, the firearms producers, ammunition makers, off-road vehicle producers, store owners and employees selling supplies for the hunting trip, all the way to the owners and employees of the hotels in which the hunters stay. Without hunting, the 200 million trips which hunters went on in 2001 wouldn't have occurred; this would result in a $5.3 billion loss to the hotel and food service industries."
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Pastimes: Why we hunt - BakersfieldLife.com - 2 views

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  • In fact, until just prior to the beginning of World War II, servicemen were allowed to purchase their rifles when they left the military so they would have a means to hunt when they returned home.
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      Hugh B on 06 May 13
       
      "In fact, until just prior to the beginning of World War II, servicemen were allowed to purchase their rifles when they left the military so they would have a means to hunt when they returned home." says Cook.
  • In today's modern world, with supermarkets and restaurants on nearly every street corner, hunting may not be a necessity any longer, but it is still a tremendously popular pastime, especially here in Kern County.
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      Hugh B on 06 May 13
       
      With today being as modern as it is, instead of people going out of their element and killing their food they may just have to walk a block or so to go to a supermarket.
  • "What hunting does for me is put me in a whole different world," Galvez said. "You're in a place where nobody has access to you, no cell phones or meetings, and you start to wind down. All of the knots in your neck go away and you can just recharge."
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  • It's a pastime that often gets passed down from one generation to the nex
  • Hunting, for my family, is about tradition," said Wayne Marden, avid hunter and range master at Ole Boy Outdoors. "My father is a hunter. He got me into it, and my son has followed in our footsteps, so it's a generational thing."
  • "The things we hunt, for the most part, just taste good," Marden said. "Venison tastes good. Quail tastes good. Dove, chucker -- they all taste good.
  • Galvez, who primarily hunts elk these days, raves about his wife's elk meatloaf, and he has also recently taken up hunting wild boar.
  • "The true success of a hunt can not be measured in the pounds of meat that you bring home," Marden said. "It's the number of memories you bring home. And if you keep that in mind, you'll do well."
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THE EVERYDAY HUNTER: How deer hunting has changed - TimesObserver.com | News, Sports, J... - 3 views

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  • Some changes have made hunting better and safer. We dress in fluorescent orange instead of red Woolrich plaid. We have hunter education classes. We have better gear, better clothing, and better guns, bows and arrows. Most of us use higher quality scopes and binoculars. We have easy access to maps and to better weather forecasts via the Internet. We find ways to control or minimize our human scent. We know more about deer habits.
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      Hugh B on 06 May 13
       
      There are so many changes that have made this sport so much safer. Instead of people just wearing whatever is in thier wardrobe they put on fluorescent orange so they can stand out to other hunters. The gear has also improved, instead of using an old muzzle-loader people are turning to hi-tech rifles that will bring down the animal instantly without making it suffer. we just know more than we did twenty years ago.
  • Hunting competes with youth sports programs, video games and heavy doses of "must-see TV" that has brought an urban mentality even to rural areas. All those television sit-coms are so very appealing to youths - they take up nearly every subject except hunting.
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      Hugh B on 06 May 13
       
      "Hunting competes with youth sports programs, video games and heavy doses of "must-see TV" that has brought an urban mentality even to rural areas. All those television sit-coms are so very appealing to youths - they take up nearly every subject except hunting." says Sorensen.
  • More broken families mean that more kids have no dad to take them hunting.
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  • We've succumbed to advertisements, hunting videos and magazines - most of which convince countless hunters that they can't succeed without treestands or ground blinds.
  • Much has changed. Back then, hardly anyone would sit up in a tree or in a ground shanty all day.
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  • Thousands of years ago, it may have been hunting that caused the mass extinction of the North American large land mammals.  In the 1940’s and 50’s some of today’s most prominent game animals were almost non-existent.  In the 1970’s, however, state governments and the federal government began to realize the rights and importance of wildlife and made it their responsibility to protect them.
  • The Department of Fish and Wildlife has been continually checking and balancing wildlife numbers so they are at there peak populations without starvation or overpopulation.  Hunting, regulated under state law, has played a large role in controlling the populations of these wildlife species. 
  • The money from this hunting, including money from licenses, ammunition, firearms, and taxes from theses items, has been used almost solely for the preservation and conservation of wildlife habitats.  These habitats encourage wildlife to survive and thrive and ensure that these species will be around for many generations to come.
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