What's Merica’ Without Meat
A man and his son make their way through the dark on a cool fall morning. The fog lies over the hills like a thick blanket. The man and his son talk about the things that have happened in recent times and share memories from years past, too. The morning continues, and as time passes, the two realize that this will be an experience to remember for many years to come. Countless generations throughout the ages have shared the tradition of hunting. Before people ever settled U.S ground, people have been hunting animals for food. People had to hunt because hunting supplied food for their family. When hunting first started people used weapons such as sticks and stones to kill animals. As people got smarter and had greater …show more content…
There are an estimated 12.5 million hunters over the age of 16 hunting each year for deer. Seasons, permits, and species have specific rules governing the type of firearm, bow, atlatl, and slingshot a person may use to hunt (Missouri Deer Hunting History). Deer populations are controlled by hunting. The government puts laws and regulations to ensure that the deer population is controlled, but not hunted to extinction. For those people that think hunters just go out in the woods and shoot as many deer as they can, it's not true. In order to make sure im hunting legally i have to buy deer tags and also check to see when the seasons are to ensure i'm hunting at the proper time and following all the rules that every hunter should follow. If you are caught hunting illegally, fines are given to you and sometimes you aren't allowed to hunt for a specific length of time. “Mike Krassey was fined 3,500 dollars for illegally hunting white tailed deer, being party to the offence of attaching a seal, or tag, to a deer killed by another person. He then had his hunting license suspended for 2 years so he couldn't hunt anymore”(Hunting controls deer Population). Fines are huge deal for illegal hunters and help keep most hunters hunting safely and legally due to the big fines you could receive. The minimum fine a person can receive for hunting illegally is 500 dollars. Laws and fines should not be cheap though because it helps ensure that people will follow the rules and hunt legally. Poaching is one major problem that we have in Missouri with deer hunting. Poaching is very illegal and most people that poach do it because they can't afford to buy tags or have no ground to hunt on for themselves. Poaching is a deadly crime against wildlife. Wildlife officials say that legal hunters kill tens of millions of deer every season. For each
A man and his son make their way through the dark on a cool fall morning. The fog lies over the hills like a thick blanket. The man and his son talk about the things that have happened in recent times and share memories from years past, too. The morning continues, and as time passes, the two realize that this will be an experience to remember for many years to come. Countless generations throughout the ages have shared the tradition of hunting. Before people ever settled U.S ground, people have been hunting animals for food. People had to hunt because hunting supplied food for their family. When hunting first started people used weapons such as sticks and stones to kill animals. As people got smarter and had greater …show more content…
There are an estimated 12.5 million hunters over the age of 16 hunting each year for deer. Seasons, permits, and species have specific rules governing the type of firearm, bow, atlatl, and slingshot a person may use to hunt (Missouri Deer Hunting History). Deer populations are controlled by hunting. The government puts laws and regulations to ensure that the deer population is controlled, but not hunted to extinction. For those people that think hunters just go out in the woods and shoot as many deer as they can, it's not true. In order to make sure im hunting legally i have to buy deer tags and also check to see when the seasons are to ensure i'm hunting at the proper time and following all the rules that every hunter should follow. If you are caught hunting illegally, fines are given to you and sometimes you aren't allowed to hunt for a specific length of time. “Mike Krassey was fined 3,500 dollars for illegally hunting white tailed deer, being party to the offence of attaching a seal, or tag, to a deer killed by another person. He then had his hunting license suspended for 2 years so he couldn't hunt anymore”(Hunting controls deer Population). Fines are huge deal for illegal hunters and help keep most hunters hunting safely and legally due to the big fines you could receive. The minimum fine a person can receive for hunting illegally is 500 dollars. Laws and fines should not be cheap though because it helps ensure that people will follow the rules and hunt legally. Poaching is one major problem that we have in Missouri with deer hunting. Poaching is very illegal and most people that poach do it because they can't afford to buy tags or have no ground to hunt on for themselves. Poaching is a deadly crime against wildlife. Wildlife officials say that legal hunters kill tens of millions of deer every season. For each