Does Sarah Palin's Hunting Make You More or Less of a Fan?

It is not a myth. The white tail deer is a prime example. Here in SC there are no longer any natural predators. The deer population is very high. You see them splattered all along the highways. In many areas they are very poor. In the early 80s we regularly killed deer that were not much more than skin and bone on my Dad's farm. This was with them totally destroying everything we planted. Crops could not even get over 4" tall. It was so bad the wildlife department issued us a permit to shot them out of season. After 2 years of heavy hunting the deer were much larger and heavier. Nature has natural checks and balances. Man removed the checks and balances because they also preyed of livestock. Now we are the only check and balance. Mankind does some of the stupidest things in the name of being humane. We continually feed starving countries when clearly teaching them population control would be much more beneficial. I have seen the same thing done for over populated deer. They put out hay are winter so that more of them survive until next winter and you have even more starving. There is only two practical ways to control a healthy population of prey animals. 1 control them ourselves or 2 reintroduce the nature predators. Do you want wolves and cougars in you back yard?

What do you call "hunting fairly"? How do you make it a "real sport? How do you give the animal a chance?

There is one form of deer hunting that I have no part in and would actually like to see outlawed. It is called dog hunting. Basically you take two groups, one armed with shotguns and the other with a pack of dogs. The ones with the guns form a line and the ones with the dogs go around and release the dogs that drive the deer from the woods into the line of shotguns.