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  I think deer hunting is more about an excuse to get away from your family than actually killing a deer.
  
  You're wrong about the reasoning - it's not to get away - it's a hobby, like any other hobby. I used to golf. Takes about 4 hours. I could just hit a ball on my lawn, similar stuff. So when I went golfing - was it to get away from my family? Or was it just because I enjoyed golfing?
  You're attempting to make a hobby (that's all it is) into a bad thing because you're not at home.
context: "cmv: why doesn't everyone have the exact same interests as me"
  Because that's exactly how your post reads. Different people find different things interesting. Did you know that people target shoot as a hobby? And those targets sit still in a firing range. How much easier can it get? >
  
  Why do people use a stick with a blunt end to hit a little white ball into a hole when they could just walk up and put it in? Why does anybody do anything? >
  
  So other people can sit around and call it overrated. >
  
  Would you like us to convince that you, personally, should enjoy deer hunting? Or would you like to better understand why other people enjoy deer hunting? >
  
  I'm asking why I should wake up early to go into the woods to shoot at animals that I see everyday on their own. >
  
  Well if you don't want to do it then don't do it I guess. People like different things, why do some people like baseball and others like football? >
  
  So you get to hang out in nature all day, climb up into trees, and if you're successful you get food from an animal you can be reasonably sure had a natural experience during it's life. That sounds like a win to many people. >
  
  Why does it take all day to kill an animal that stops and stares at you the second they see you driving down the street? I could've killed at least 4 deer last week alone sitting in my driver's seat. >
  
  Because forests are big relative to deer and most people don't hunt on public roads for obvious reasons? You see a lot of deer near some highway crossings because there's a lot of places where the only way for animals to freely move places they want to go is for them to cross the road and they tend to cluster around certain sections of the road.
  Have you ever been hiking? Or camping? You see a lot of squirrels and rabbits but it's not like you're seeing a deer every couple of minutes. >
  
  Yes. I live in the woods. I hike all the time and see deer all the time. In my car, from my deck, while walking, etc. >
  
  I don’t get it, do you think hunters are lying? Like they spend all morning in the woods and really see 25 deer but pass them up just so they can say how hard it was to shoot that big buck? >
  
  I'm a bit dubious on OPs explanation here. I live pretty middle of nowhere in a place with deer overpopulation. I'm not seeing a distinct individual deer every day (there is a family of them who lives nearby who you'll see repeatedly some springs, but its  the same few individuals all season). And that's counting all deer, not just deer of the age and sex that are subject to hunting licenses. >
  
  
  In that regard, it's overrated because deer are everywhere all the time and you don't need early mornings and camouflage to kill.
  
  You do if you plan on eating it, which is what a majority of deer hunters do. >
  
  Are they eating it because they killed it or do they kill it because they need it to eat?
  I'd argue eating it is the result of killing it for sport. The vast majority of hunters aren't killing and forging for food to survive. >
  
  
  The vast majority of hunters aren't killing and forging for food to survive.
  
  No, but a lot are lower income and the meat is supplemental and cheap to process.
  You don't have to be abjectly destitute to try and make things easier on yourself.
  The fact that there's a cultural aspect to deer hunting in a lot of places means it can be both a useful and an enjoyable activity to people who may not have many opportunity for much else.
  A box of ammo can last several seasons for a good shot, and is much cheaper than many other forms of entertainment.  The fact that it also supplies an entire family with several dozen pounds of meat is an even bigger incentive. >
  
  I and my fellow hunters in my state have donated venison to homeless shelters.  Those poor souls definitely benefited from my “hobby” and we helped the environment as well.