hunting

Hunting can be an extremely fun activity. It can also be very relaxing. Hunting is a good use of time. The change that settled agricultural existence with peoples need to catch food to survive along with most peoples love of hunting, will hopefully continue into further generations. Hunting offers excitement, tested strength, and also courage ("Longbows") Aboriginal people hunted and trapped animals for uses like shelter, food, clothing or tools. They also traded, trading of pelts dates back to the mid 1600’s in western Canada. In the late sixteenth century Aboriginal trappers accepted European iron traps. By the mid-1770s fur trade competition was building ("History of Hunting and Trapping"). In the fourteenth century firearms appeared in Europe, the inaccuracy of the early guns along with the noise and smoke they produced would have made them less useful than bows or crossbows as hunting weapons. Guns were restricted to use for only bird hunting until the end of the seventeenth century. Around the 1700’s flint lock guns were designed to shoot birds on the wing. ("Firearms”).

Birds and smaller animals were frequently hunted with balls of clay or lead. People usually did not use arrows because the arrow would most likely pass through their bodies and they could have easily escaped the hunter. Long bows have stayed plain through its life. Crossbows became more common in the fifteenth century. ("Crossbows")

A crossbow is a medieval weapon consisting of a bow fixed transversely on a stock having a trigger mechanism to release the bowstring, and often accompanied or incorporating by a mechanism for bending the bow (Random House ). A string and bow either recurve or compound which launches a minimum 14 inch arrow, moun...

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...s sportsmen have paid more than $13.7 billion. The $495 billion in annual federal tax money made by hunters spending can cover the annual paychecks of 150, 000 United States Army Sergeants (National Shooting Sports Foundation). Related United States spending grew by fifty five percent in 2011; $87 billion went to the nation’s 680,000 jobs from hunting. Hunting is good for business throughout the country especially in more rural areas. With the amount of whitetail deer growing there has been more property damage which hunters decrease the amount of. Whitetail deer in large amounts can cause a lot of habitat damage ("The Economic Impact of Hunting"). In 2010, eleven million meals were given to less fortunate people with venison donations by hunters. 2.8 million pounds of game meat was given to food banks, shelters, and church kitchens ("Deer Problems and Issues").