Hunting season should be renamed "shooting season"...

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Disagree. Seeing deer isn't hunting. It could be hunting prep but if you aren't shooting it is something besides hunting.
 
Every season i hunt a couple times from stands over wheat fields: Hunting there is truly "deer shooting". That area near the Red River is grossly overpopulated with deer.
 
I can, and do hunt deer and other game year round. I can hunt them with my camera, or I can just observe where they hang out in order to return during the times of the year when it is legal to shoot. But we have to be PC and call it "Harvest Season" now.
 
Maybe you have to be PC because some dumb party tells you to be, but we don't. We think for our selves and say it like it is.
It is deer hunting season and we kill deer to feed our families.
 
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Around here most have a depredation permit for crops. So its shooting season/ hunting season year round, cant call it harvest season since legally you cant harvest the deer (most do though). The deer population has only grown however, to the point of nuisance, and having unlimited doe tags.
 
You can go shooting at the range any time of the year. It is always shooting season, but it isn't always hunting/deer/duck/elk/etc. season.

I have to agree, I see it as the other way around. "Shooting Season", for me, begins the day Hunting Season ends. During Hunting Season, shooting is restricted to the occasional rare scope sight in, and the taking of game.
 
hunting

  1. pursue and kill (a wild animal) for sport or food.


  2. search determinedly for someone or something.

I suppose you need the kill for one meaning and just have to be in search for, for another.

I have often hunted for things I could not or had any intentions to kill.
 
IIRC, in the UK, "hunting" is riding to the hounds such as in pursuit of fox. Most of what we Americans call hunting, they call shooting.

Lately, for my purposes, hunting is mostly a legal term encompassing the pursuit and taking of game. What I do most with consideration to the "hunting" label is, depending on open/closed seasons, not much in the way of pursuit, but plenty of year-round observation with the occasional one-shot to harvest (aka kill).

I've been lucky in that the deer like my backyard. They're generally always around and enjoyable to see.
 
I assumed op meant whitetail and hunt in the killing sense. If not, then of course you can "hunt" or observe year round. Change it to "Shooting Season" though? We just call it Deer Opener here. Like Walleye Opener. Not "Fillet Season".
 
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