Originally Posted by: RaskolnikovThe next consideration is that most of these game animals now have no natural predators and so their populations are suseptable to going catastrophically out of control leading to inbreeding, increased highway deaths, disease, the destruction of wild food-plants, trees and famers' crops and then finally starvation and death. Properly controled hunting is an absolutely essential componant of maintaing healthy game animal populations.

Deer overpopulation is rediculous down here. I almost hit a deer, or a deer almost runs into me at least 2-3 times a week. Deer, and other wild animals, can cause a butt load of damage to a vehicle. There are numerouse deaths each year down here, because of people hitting, or trying to avoid hitting, deer.

I hunt deer because I love the sport and challenge of it, I love deer meat, I love socializing with other hunters, and deer have cost me well over $1000 in damage to my vehicles.