Every year thousands of hunters take to the woods in the hopes of bagging a whitetail deer. Deer are a plentiful resource and are amazingly adaptable to any surroundings. Found throughout all of the continent and in every landscape imaginable, they also have an astounding ability to sense danger and aren’t always a simple target for the hunter. Many hunters prefer to study the deer in their area to have a sense of what they could encounter come open season. Fully understanding one’s target is one of the most fundamental requirements for a successful hunt.

Whitetail deer hunting has been a popular sport for centuries. In early times they were most often the biggest source of a family’s food and survival. For this reason the whitetail deer population has always fluctuated; while some years they seem to overrun the landscape, other years their numbers dwindle. It is for this reason that the local wildlife management departments evaluate the population every year to determine the number of tags to be handed out each season. When the deer are overpopulated, hunting is often seen as a great asset in the local region; as food sources dwindle, deer push into the city limits munching on expensive landscaping resulting in thousands of dollars of property damage. With more deer inside the city limits, more fatal car accidents also occur.

While deer are plentiful in nearly any landscape a hunter can imagine, a hunter may prefer a change of his local scenery. Many whitetail deer hunting guides are available to take the hunter on trips through the open plains, tall wooded forests, or rocky mountainsides. Each landscape presents the hunter with a different challenge and tests the hunter’s skill. There are also guides that structure trips around the weapon a hunter is using, whether it be a rifle, a bow, or a muzzleloader.

Many hunters take part in whitetail deer hunting not just for the challenge, but also for the freezer full of meat they get if they are successful. Deer meat is very low in fat and cholesterol when compared to other meats. It also has high levels of vitamins and minerals and can be prepared in much the same way as any other type of meat, from grilling to sausage. While many hunters are also able to clean their kills, most prefer to send the forty to sixty pounds of meat they get out of their kill to be processed into sausage of other manageable small packages of round steak or sirloin tips.

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Hunting for food and survival in the desert – Ian Wright in the Kalahari – BBC

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