I have heard over and over that in THE WEST you need a long range rifle to hunt deer, so how come?

I hunt in the Angeles National Forest directly behind Los Angeles. It’s about 35 miles deep and about 75 miles long. The highest peak is about 10,000 feet. The area is very steep with Evergreen Pine Trees. The forest has deer, mountain lion, black bear, Nelson Bighorn Sheep, and used to have Grizzly until the [...]

Deer hunting

International practices New Zealand See also: Hunting in New Zealand New Zealand has had a number of deer species introduced and in the absence of predators became to be considered an animal pest due to its effect on native vegetation. From the 1950s the government employed hunters to cull the deer population. Deer hunting is [...]

Pampas deer

Taxonomy & Evolution The Pampas deer are part of the New World deer, another term for all South American deer species. Fossil records indicate that New Word deer traveled to South America from North America as part of the Great American Interchange around 2 million years ago, following the formation of the Isthmus of Panama. [...]