I don’t care what this guy’s motive was. He committed probably the single greatest act of improving the health of the surrounding forests in the past century.
You should read up on this before commenting.
Deer kill more Americans every year than any other animal (about 150).
Around 1900, there were about 500,000 deer in the U.S. Today, there's over 20 million, a 40x increase.
Have you been in a forest lately? That "cathedral" effect isn't natural. There's supposed to be both shrubs and saplings. They've all been eaten by deer. Notice the dead or dying older trees that have had all their bark rutted off? Deer again.
If you don't think that's a problem for the future of forests and the environment, you're just plain wrong.
We participate in the DMAP program in VA. On 1600 ac we get a yearly quota of around 40 does to take to keep a healthy population. Every year if we don’t take that many the numbers get too high quickly as most does have 2 fawns. Not many participate in this program. Also not many hunters want to kill does and not many people hunt. The deer population is way too high in the US. 10,000 guys doing this every night for a month might make a sizable dent. There are estimates of 20 million deer in the US today and their population can double every 2-3 years. I think they don’t because they are staving due to high numbers today. We forsook managing our environment due to environmentalism and the feminizing of our society. What we need is more hunters who hunt responsibly.
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/6835501/ns/us_news-environment/t/deer-eating-away-forests-nationwide/#.T3Y8ImGvKSo