I know in Wisconsin, deer hunting is nearly a year-round season now with special chronic wasting hunts (yup, it's a disease, and I wouldn't eat the meat - they allow the hunters to go out and shoot them for the sport of it... or the DNR has to go out and snipe them), t-zone hunts (over populated areas), bow, and gun seasons. It seems that all I hear from home is about hunting. Course, here in TX the deer don't get quite as well nourished and I know many a hunter who make a sport of it with providing feeders and such on private land, they set up cameras and what-not to monitor them through the year... hunt 'em and eat 'em up. It's almost as though they raise them corn fed as you would a cow or pig, just at a slight distance.