>>>>Now I can shoot a deer and feel a primary sense of joy and excitment instead of guilt. Sure if it is a poor shot and it suffers, I feel bad. But the feeling of a clean shot and quick kill of a deer is definitely one of the top 5 joys in my life.
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>>>And that you feel that way doesn't bother you? If you were living in frontier times and killing that deer meant your family would eat for a week instead of going hungry, I can understand the feeling. But in the modern world, how can killing an innocent creature give you joy?
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>>>Tamar
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>>It's easy to paint deer as innocent little creatures, but they are a pest here. People die from car accidents with deer,
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>Er, isn't it that deer die from people running into them? It's not as if the deer flatten the cars.

Actually the deer do flatten the cars. I've seen cars all but totaled after the driver hit a deer.