Do you understand how much damage a herd of deer can do to a farm?
Your reasoning is like complaining about the anti-theft sensors at stores, reasoning that “a shopkeeper that can’t afford a little shoplifting was just about too broke to be in business”.
We’re not talking “a few deer”, we’re talking a LOT, as in 40 were just the ones he actually managed to shoot.
Ok, Pea brain, read this real slow, I grew up a 250 acre farm, I currently live on a farm. I know about deer and farming. And I have been a hunter all my life. I also know that the man who shot the deer is a fool.
I have never known deer to eat cotton, and posted a link to a game warden who said the same thing. Next the man shot forty deer. Take forty city slickers you sell them a three day permit for one deer each. Now look what the going rate is for a three day hunt. The man left several thousand dollars to rot in the field when all he had to do was sell permits at the end of the season to recuperate what ever fictitious loss he had. He probably would have made money.