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You won't be a very successful hunter if you don't wear camouflage. If the animals see or smell you before you can mark them, you'll go home empty-handed. Both visual and olfactory camouflage is important. Though you should never compromise your safety, the more effectively you blend in to the surrounding environment, the more likely... more »
Hog hunting is a popular outdoor pastime in many parts of the United States. Its liberal rules and regional appeal make it a major recreational industry across the American Southeast, particularly in states like Arkansas, Oklahoma and Texas, where wild hog numbers are high and the tradition of hunting the creatures is a major part of... more »
Deer hunting, a very popular sport throughout most of the country, all starts with where one should hunt. Deer, like most mammals are creatures of habit, and tend to follow the same patterns year after year. They must eat to sustain energy, bed down (akin to our sleep) to conserve energy, intake fluids, and during certain times of the... more »
Red hunting lights are not used just because they look cool. These useful devices were created so folks could hunt in the dark. The red hue of the light insures it will not hurt your prey's eyes or scare them off into the underbrush. Red hunting lights are available in a variety of styles and a wide price range, but no matter which... more »
The pros and cons of deer hunting have been a battle between sportsmen and animal lovers for decades. Deer hunters offer up convincing reasons that deer should be hunted, and those who oppose deer hunting offer up reasons of their own. Here's a look at three pros and three cons to the sport of deer hunting. more »
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Hunting is the practice of pursuing living animals (usually wildlife) for food, recreation, or trade. In present-day use, the term refers to lawful hunting, as distinguished from poaching, which is the killing, trapping or capture of the hunted species contrary to applicable law. The species which are hunted are referred to as game and are usually mammals and migratory or non-migratory gamebirds.
Hunting can also involve the elimination of vermin, as a means of pest control to prevent diseases caused by overpopulation. Hunting advocates state that hunting can be a necessary componentWilliams, Ted. "Wanted: More Hunters," Audubon magazine, March 2002, retrieved 2007-10-26. of modern wildlife management, for example to help maintain a population of healthy animals within an environments ecological carrying capacity when natural checks such as predators are absent. However, a 2006 study by Penn States Center for Infectious Disease Dynamics indicated that reducing the game animal population in small areas may lead to higher tick densities, resulting in more tick-borne infections in rodents leading to a high prevalence of tick-borne encephalitis and creating a tick hot-spot. In the United States, wildlife managers are frequently part of hunting regulatory and licensing bodies, where they help to set rules on the number, manner and conditions in which game may be hunted.
The pursuit, capture and release, or capture for food of fish is called fishing, which is not commonly categorized as a form of hunting. Trapping is also usually considered a separate activity. Neither is it considered hunting to pursue animals without intent to kill them, as in wildlife photography or birdwatching. The practice of hunting for plants or mushrooms is a colloquial term for foraging or gathering.
The aspects of skillful tracking and acquisition of an elusive target in the pursuit of game have caused the word hunting to be used the vernacular as a metaphor (such as "barg read more at » http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hunting
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