Growing up in a small Saskatchewan town, I was aware of hunting and some kids disappeared for a while every fall to go hunt with their dads, but I don’t think it was treated like a religion like I’m seeing here.
Then again, a Bass Pro Shop recently opened up here, and it is huge and always full of people. I have to conclude that there are A LOT of hunters here, too.
Spoil sports!
Hunting in Australia works a lot differently to the way it does in the US, but I (a long-time shooter) can’t understand taking the first day of the hunting season off to go hunting, for the simple reason that everyone else who likes hunting has also taken the day off to go hunting and it therefore seems unlikely there’ll be any deer left to shoot (since all the other hunters will have shot them).
Killing deer is incidental to the hunting season. What it really is, is deer hunter season, cuz so many of these yahoos go out and shoot each other up. There were 4 deer hunters shot on day one of the season here in Wisconsin this year.
The really cool thing is, you don’t even need a license to shoot a deer hunter, only a couple of six packs.
Thank you!
This proves my point beautifully. (Point = yes, we hunt here, yes, hunting is ok, but, tone it down, guys!)
Who’d want to? They taste terrible! (Too much fat)
They usually are well-marinated, though. 
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Are the hogs tasty?
Tastes a lot like deer hunters.
Yeah, but the boar meat taste doesn’t last the way deer hunter does - the wild pig flavor is short, as opposed to deer hunter, which is more of a long pork thing.
So just so I’m clear, are we saying that this is not the week to go for a pastoral stroll in my funny hat with the antlers on it that always gets a big laugh at Christmas parties?
Taking time off for deer season - that is soooo quaint.
Around here, Wyoming, deer season is mostly just a warm up for elk season. And yes, most schools are closed for the opening of elk season.
It varies by state. In MD, for instance, you’re allowed 10 (ten, not a typo) doe and 2 buck. To get your second buck you have to first bag a doe. This applies for each of bow, blackpowder, and rifle season, so a dedicated hunter could theoretically get 36 deer every fall. That’s for whitetail, you can also hunt sika deer although they have much lower bag limits.
Let’s just say if you have a decent life insurance policy, and your wife should say to you “Freddy, you look a little stressed; perhaps you should just go for a stroll through the woods. That would cheer you up. But you must dress warm, so here, wear this hat”, don’t do it. 