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mal almost in one’s backyard adds much to the quality of rural life in Virginia. Hunters enjoy the hunting, and family and friends eryoy the tasty venison chops, roasts and steaks. And even the most disinterested nonhunter will thrill at the sight of a big buck bounding away across the fields its white tail flagging a warning to all its kin.
Youngsters who learn their hunting on whitetail deer use that experience in later life to successfully hunt big game all over the world.
But there are, unfortunately, the negative aspects of the expanding deer populations.
Veteran game wardens say hunting violations involving deer far exceed those for any other species of game. Most who commit them are not hunters in the true sense. Instead they are outlaws who hunt at night when the deer are extremely vulnerable. The outlaws shoot from public roads, fail to check in their kills, poach, release their hounds on private land, take deer outside of the seasons and shoot over the bag limits.
Curbing such activities consumes much of the time of the warden force of the Commission of Game and Inland Fisheries.
Deer hunting violators also mar the image of hunting generally, and it is their activities that spawned the proliferation of no hunting signs across the landscape. All hunters suffer as a con
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