Big game seasons

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Over a few beers the other night, a friend who doesn't hunt (although did as a kid with his father) asked why big game seasons are focused around the rut of the species, which is an important time for the population, as opposed to leaving the animals to do their "work" at this time, and hunting them at other times of the year.

Maybe it was the drinks, but I couldn't come up with a great reason, other than identifying males by their antlers at this time... :?
 
plus also add in...this is there mating season......all the kiddies are ready to leave the nest....its better to get them when they have no kids to look out for...
 
We leave them all summer to feed, recovering from last winter and getting in condition for the next. Then the ones we take in autumn aren't competing for the scarcer food over the winter, making it easier for the rest to survive. For our benefit, it means we take them when they are likely to have the most meat on them, and it is easier to preserve the food over winter, and the food is more valuable when winter means there won't be much food from plant sources for us, either.

Every living thing dies eventually, somehow. Wild animals usually die slowly of starvation, exhaustion, or sickness, unless an accident or a predator gets them. None of those deaths are likely to be easy or painless. The most humane predator is the human, especially now with modern firearms - we usually don't have to subject the prey to the terrors of being chased. (And unlike other predators, we make sure the prey is dead before we start eating it.)
 
thats when the females shoo away the young ones to breed again . during the spring & summer months they are caring for their young.and in the winter they are carrying the next years batch. and also in the winter most biggame animales tend to yard up so they be sitting targets in the yard
 
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