Deer hunting is hunting deer for meat and sport, an activity which dates back tens of thousands of years. Venison, the name for deer meat, is a nutritious and natural food source of animal protein that can be obtained through deer hunting. There are many different types of deer around the world that are hunted for their meat. For sport, often hunters try to kill deer with the largest and most antlers to score them using inches. There are two different categories of antlers. They are typical and nontypical. They measure tine length, beam length, and beam mass by each tine. They will add all these measurements up to get a score. This score is the score without deductions. Deductions occur when the opposite tine is not the same length as it is opposite. That score is the deducted score.
A Roman mosaic depicting the goddess Diana deer hunting
A New Hampshire deer hunt circa 1910
A depiction of deer hunting with hounds from a 15th-century version of The Hunting Book of Gaston Phébus
The Goguryeo tomb mural of hunting from Ji'an
A deer or true deer is a hoofed ruminant ungulate of the family Cervidae. It is divided into subfamilies Cervinae and Capreolinae. Male deer of almost all species, as well as female reindeer, grow and shed new antlers each year. These antlers are bony extensions of the skull and are often used for combat between males.
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"The Stag Hunt of Frederick III, Elector of Saxony" by Lucas Cranach the Elder, 1529
Chital deer in Nagarahole, India
Reindeer herds standing on snow to avoid flies