Theodore Roosevelt in 1885 with his highly-decorated deer-skin hunting suit, and Tiffany-carved hunting knife and rifle.

Deer hunting is the activity or sport of pursuing deer which began as early as 7,000 BC. There are numerous types of deer throughout the world that are hunted. Image File history File links Gnome-globe. ... Image File history File links TR_Buckskin_Tiffany_Knife. ... Image File history File links TR_Buckskin_Tiffany_Knife. ... For other persons named Theodore Roosevelt, see Theodore Roosevelt (disambiguation). ... Charles Lewis Tiffany (b. ... The 7th millennium BC in North American history provides a time line of events occurring within the present political boundaries of United States (including territories) from 7000 BC through 6001 BC in the Gregorian calendar. ... This article is about the ruminent animal. ...

North America

The deer most sought after in North America, east of the Rocky Mountains, is the white-tailed deer. West of the Rockies, the mule deer is the dominant deer species. The most notable differences between the two, other than distribution, are the differences in ears, tail, antler shape, and body size. For individual mountains named Rocky Mountain, see Rocky Mountain (disambiguation). ... Binomial name Zimmermann, 1780 The White-tailed deer (Odocoileus virginianus), also known as the Virginia deer, or simply as the whitetail, is a medium-sized deer found throughout most of the continental United States, southern Canada, Mexico, Central America and northern portions of South America as far south as Peru. ... Binomial name (Rafinesque, 1817) The mule deer (Odocoileus hemionus) is a deer whose habitat is in the western half of North America. ...

Whitetail Male Deer at night in Central Texas

The mule deer's ears are proportionally longer than the ears of a white-tailed deer, and resemble that of a mule. Mule deer have a black-tipped tail which is proportionally smaller than that of the white-tailed deer. Buck deer of both species sprout antlers; the antlers of the mule deer branch and rebranch, while white-tailed bucks have one main beam with several tines sprouting from it. White-tailed bucks are usually smaller than mule deer bucks.

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United Kingdom

There are six species of deer in the UK: red deer, roe deer, fallow deer, Sika deer, muntjac deer, and Chinese water deer, as well as hybrids of these deer. All are hunted to a degree reflecting their relative population. It is illegal to use bows to hunt any wild animal in the UK under the Wildlife and Countryside Act 1981. This article is about the species of deer. ... Binomial name (Linnaeus, 1758) The European Roe Deer (Capreolus capreolus) is a deer species of Europe, Asia Minor, and Caspian coastal regions. ... Binomial name Dama dama (Linnaeus, 1758) The Fallow Deer (Dama dama) is a ruminant mammal belonging to the family Cervidae. ... Binomial name Cervus nippon Temminck, 1838 Subspecies The Sika Deer Cervus nippon is a typical member of the family Cervidae. ... Species 10 species, see text Muntjac are deer of the genus Muntiacus, also known as Barking Deer. ... Binomial name Hydropotes inermis (Swinhoe, 1870) The Water Deer is superficially more similar to a musk deer than a true deer (cervidae) but it is classified as a cervid despite having tusks (downward-pointing canine teeth) instead of antlers and other anatomical anomalies. ... A Cocker Spaniel in a typical English shooting scene Hunting and Shooting in the United Kingdom has been practised there for many centuries and is a major part of British rural culture. ... The Wildlife and Countryside Act 1981 is an Act of Parliament in the United Kingdom which aims to protect the wildlife and countryside of the United Kingdom. ...

Method

North America

There are four common methods of hunting deer: stalking, which consists of following signs and trails of deer; stand hunting, waiting where deer are likely to travel (including tree stands); still hunting, alternately walking silently and waiting concealed in the pursuit of game; and line drives, which consists of flushing deer toward a line of hunters. Scouting and stalking involves following deer sign. Common signs to pursue include rubs, scrapes, and tracks. Scrapes are places where bucks scratch the ground and urinate below low hanging branches on the edge of fields. Bucks do this to mark territory and attract female deer. Deer tracks may tell you the size, age, and species of a deer. Rubs are marks on the trunks and low branches of trees which indicate where bucks have rubbed the velvet off their antlers; this leaves a tell-tale mark because it takes the bark off the tree where the deer rubbed. Another purpose for this action is that it marks territory with a visual signpost. Defined narrowly, a game stalker is a hunter who for sport, approaches close to his timid quarry before making a kill. ... Deer Rubs are a common deer scouting sign, sought by big game hunters. ...

A New Hampshire Deer Hunt

Another method of deer hunting, although illegal in most states, is road hunting. A person dirives down a road with a gun and when they see a deer they shoot them. The Hunting Act 2004 is an Act in the United Kingdom passed in 2004. ...

United Kingdom and Ireland

Nature and Appearance of Deer and how they may be hunted with Dogs

The vast majority of deer hunted in the UK are stalked. The phrase deer hunting, however, has also been used to refer (in England and Wales) to the traditional practice of chasing deer with packs of hounds, now illegal under the Hunting Act 2004. Download high resolution version (1457x833, 55 KB)Nature and Appearance of Deer, and how they can be hunted with Dogs. ... Download high resolution version (1457x833, 55 KB)Nature and Appearance of Deer, and how they can be hunted with Dogs. ... Defined narrowly, a game stalker is a hunter who for sport, approaches close to his timid quarry before making a kill. ... Categories: Dog stubs | Dog types ... The Hunting Act 2004 is an Act in the United Kingdom passed in 2004. ...

In the late nineteenth and twentieth centuries, there were several packs of staghounds hunting "carted deer" in England and Ireland. Carted deer were red deer kept in captivity for the sole purpose of being hunted and recaptured alive. More recently, there were three packs of staghounds hunting wild red deer of both sexes on or around Exmoor and the New Forest Buckhounds hunting fallow deer bucks in the New Forest, the latter disbanding in 1997.[1] Dunkery Beacon, with heather in bloom Exmoor National Park is a national park situated on the Bristol Channel coast of Devon and Somerset in South West England. ... For other uses, see New Forest (disambiguation). ...

The way in which the red deer were hunted was for a character called the harbourer to follow the intended quarry to the wood where it lay up for the night. In the morning, before the meet, the harbourer would carefully examine the perimeter of the wood to ensure that the stag had not left. After the harbourer had reported to the Master, the Huntsman would take about six hounds, called tufters, into the wood to rouse the intended quarry and start it running, separating it from any other deer that might be in the wood. This having been achieved, the tufters were taken back and the main pack were brought out and laid on the scent of the stag which, by now, would have had a good start. After a chase of indeterminate duration, the stag would become exhausted and would come to bay to face the hounds, often in water, where it would be shot at close range by one of the hunt servants.

The practice of hunting with hounds, other than using two hounds to flush deer to be shot by waiting marksmen, has been banned in the UK since 2005; to date, two people have been convicted of breaking the law.[2]

There is one pack of stag hounds in Ireland and one in Northern Ireland,[3] the former operating under a licence to hunt carted deer.[4]

Norway

Most of the deer hunting in Norway is by hunters driving the game towards other hunters posted in strategic locations in the terrain, though there is also a fair bit of stalking.

Time

Male white-tail from Kansas

There are also numerous factors that play a role in deer movement, but the one thing that may usually be counted on is the movement of deer 30 minutes before sunrise and 30 minutes after sunset when the deer are going to or leaving their feeding ground. The main factors in deer movement are precipitation, wind, hunting pressure, rut, and lunar movement. Deer will stay in their bedding area during times of heavy precipitation, and when the storm stops, the deer usually start moving. Trees and brush are usually dripping with the precipitation from the storm, and wind blowing in the woods may become very noisy. Both of these situations make the deer nervous and cause them to start moving. At the end of a storm the deer will move to an area they feel is safe for them; they will also start moving if the storm passed through their feeding period. Most deer feeding occurs in fielded areas of agriculture such as corn and soybeans; because they don't like to be caught in the open during a storm, the deer tend to move to a more covered or concealed area of the feeding ground or leave the ground enitirely until the storm ends. Depending on previous activity as well as the above mentioned factors, the rut, usually a month long period in which bucks mate with does, can last much longer or slightly shorter than one month. The rut causes deer to be more active and do things that they would not normally do. The last factor in deer movement is the position of the moon. When the moon is directly overhead, or below foot, deer seem to be more active in general. Image File history File links Download high resolution version (600x834, 80 KB) Summary Licensing File links The following pages link to this file: White-tailed Deer ... Image File history File links Download high resolution version (600x834, 80 KB) Summary Licensing File links The following pages link to this file: White-tailed Deer ...

Equipment

The Diana of Versailles with arrows used to hunt deer

Many different weapons are permitted in various states of the USA during certain times of deer season. These include bows, crossbows, rifles, shotguns, pistols, and muzzleloaders. Scanned from a book printed in 1899. ... Scanned from a book printed in 1899. ... The Diana of Versailles in the Louvre Galerie des Caryatides that was designed for it The Diana of Versailles is a slightly over lifesize[1] marble statue of the Greek goddess Artemis (latin: Diana), with a deer, located in the Musée du Louvre, Paris. ...

Archery season usually opens weeks or months before a state or locality's gun season and usually is permitted for several weeks or months afterwards. Modern compound bows and recurve bows are used, as well as some primitive recurve and longbows by historical enthusiasts when permitted. Crossbows are often reserved for disabled hunters who are unable to draw a bow, but are allowed to be used in Alabama by anyone disabled or not^{[citation needed]} and in Minnesota during firearms season.^[1] Most bows and crossbows offer an effective accurate range of 30-40 yards. Compound bows are the most popular archery method. A compound bow is usually a composite recurve bow coupled with pulleys known as eccentric cams. ... Modern recurve bow // A recurve bow is a form of bow defined by the side-view profile; in contrast to the simple longbow, a recurve bow has tips that curve away from the archer when the bow is aimed. ... The longbow (or English longbow, or Welsh longbow, see below) was a type of bow about 2. ... A crossbow is a type of weapon that fires projectiles called quarrels. ...

Rifles, shotguns, and pistols are all commonly used for hunting deer. Most regions place limits on the minimum caliber or gauge to be used; rimfire rifles and centerfires under .223 caliber are often prohibited due to ethical concerns, although they have been used to hunt deer and larger game in some cases. Some areas of the United States prohibit rifle hunting altogether; most firearms hunters in these areas use 10, 12, or 20 gauge shotguns with buckshot or slug loads. Handguns are also prohibited in many deer hunting situations, but hunters in some areas have success with .357 magnum, .41 Magnum, and .44 Magnum revolvers and larger calibers such as the .500 S&W Magnum and .454 Casull. Specialty hunting handguns like the Thompson Center Arms Contender and Encore are capable of firing many big game cartridges like the .30-06 Springfield and .45-70. Large caliber semiautomatics (such as the Desert Eagle, LAR Grizzly, and many 10mm Auto pistols) also deliver enough power to take deer. A rimfire is a type of firearm cartridge. ... A shotgun shell is a self-contained cartridge loaded with shot or a slug designed to be fired from a shotgun. ... This article is about land slugs. ... “.357” redirects here. ... The . ... The . ... The . ... The . ... Thompson Center Arms is an American firearms company based in Rochester, New Hampshire. ... .30-06 Springfield cartridge specifications. ... The . ... The Desert Eagle is a large caliber gas-operated semi-automatic pistol manufactured in Israel by IMI (Israel Military Industries) for Magnum Research, Inc. ... This page is a candidate for speedy deletion. ... The 10 mm Auto pistol cartridge is the child of the famous firearms expert Jeff Cooper. ...

Muzzleloader hunting is also a common practice. Modern muzzleloading rifles equipped with synthetic stocks, telescopic and fiber optic sights, in-line ignition systems, advanced conical or sabot bullet designs, and black powder substitutes such as Pyrodex are much more effective than the muskets of generations past. However, many traditionalists still use wood stocked, iron sighted rifles with round lead balls and traditional black powder charges. An APFSDS separating from its spindle sabot Anti-tank flechette round with its sabot A sabot refers to a device named for a shoe used in a firearm or cannon to fire a projectile or bullet that is smaller than the bore diameter. ... A black powder substitute is a replacement for black powder used in muzzleloading and cartridge firearms. ... Muskets and bayonets aboard the frigate Grand Turk. ... Black powder was the original gunpowder and practically the only known propellant and explosive until the middle of the 19th century. ...

Hunting deer with edged weapons, such as the lance or sword, is still practiced in continental Europe, primarily in France. In such hunts, the hunters are mounted on horseback, and use packs of deerhound or greyhound dogs to track and drive deer. Only the hunt masters have the right to deliver the death blow, while other mounted hunters simply ride to the chase. Country of origin Scotland Classification Breed standards (external links) FCI, AKC, ANKC KC(UK), NZKC, UKC The Deerhound, also sometimes called a Scottish Deerhound, is a breed of dog, specifically a member of the sighthound family. ... This article is about the breed of dog. ...

Alabama permits spear hunting of deer during its archery season. This article is about the U.S. State. ...

Tools

A few things every hunter needs are:

• Camouflage
• Deer stand/blind
• Weapon
• Waterproof boots
• Knife
• Tags
• Orange clothing
• Permit.
  

Camouflage has been used for ages and while it is very important, it is not essential, especially during gun season when it is required that hunters wear blaze orange clothing when on public land. There are many different types of deer stands, ladder stands, climbers and stationary blinds. Ladder stands are ladders with a platform on top of them chained to a tree. Climber stands are platforms with a seat that may be carried on your back and then placed usually about 15-20 feet off the ground on a tree. Stationary blinds, built from wood and other materials are meant to be a durable and long-lasting blind either on a stand or on the ground, depending on the terrain. No hunter may take down a deer easily or legally without using certain weapons when they are permitted. Waterproof boots are not essential but they come in very handy, especially since deer do not always fall down where you shoot them and may run for a few hundred yards into unfamiliar woods. Knives are essential for skinning and field dressing deer. Tags and permits are required to hunt deer legally; they may be purchased from local sporting good stores. This article is about protective camouflage used to disguise people, animals, or military targets. ... This article is about the tool. ... Field dressing deer, also called gutting, is a necessary step in preserving meat from deer harvested in the wild. ...

Cold Weather Deer Hunting

Cold weather deer hunting requires the hunter to prepare properly and make sure he or she has the right clothing and equipment for prolonged exposure to the elements. Humans must maintain a stable body temperature while cold weather hunting. When away from external sources of heat, our only heat source is that which we produce internally. This inner warmth primarily comes from burning food, or the oxidation of carbohydrates. Carbohydrates are available to us in the form of raisins, chocolate, candy, sugar, and fruits.

The best way to dress for cold weather hunting is to wear clothing that preserves your body heat while allowing body moisture to evaporate freely. This is accomplished through layering, or wearing alternate layers of clothing to provide insulation and ventilation.

References

1. ^ Minnesota Department of Natural Resources Hunting and Trapping Regulations Handbook p. 5, p. 58

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See also

• Big Buck Hunter(Arcade Game)
• Heated Clothing
• Deer & Deer Hunting
• Deer and Deer Hunting Television
• Deer farm
• Deer horn
• Deer Hunter (computer game)
• Deer Avenger (series)
• Deer Hunter (sports computer game)
• Deerskin trade
• Fox hunting
• Reindeer hunting in Greenland

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External links

• Whitetail Deer Hunting Info - A site where you can learn all the secrets of whitetail deer hunting.