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...Nice buck, about a year and a half old," he comments, straightening up to watch his helpers heave the carcass back into the pickup. "And well nourished too," he adds with a gesture toward the deer's six-pointed rack of antlers. "Antlers don't tell you anything about a deer's age. But they'll tell you how well he eats. A deer doesn't grow a rack like that unless he's getting plenty of food...
Carlson is assistant chief of New Jersey's wildlife management bureau. Because 130,000 licensed hunters may be loose in the New Jersey woods, he and his crew are not the only fish and game officials working. The state, which estimates the New Jersey deer population at an astonishing 100,000, runs 76 such check-out stations. But the Carlson & Co. post, located in rural Hunterdon County, is one of the busiest. By the time Carlson peels off his gloves and heads for home and supper at 8 p.m., the kill figure will have reached...
...years ago, even in a crowded state like New Jersey, Deer hunting was still the province of rugged individuals who bought their licenses, blasted their deer out of the woods and lugged them home on car fenders without too much supervision. For many of them, the deer season was the only chance each year of really getting free of feminine domestication to hunt, drink and rough it, a combination of Boy Scoutery and male blood rite. In New Jersey, for a brief period, deer hunting also became a form of semi-legalized mayhem as unqualified hunters, often as loaded...
...declining years of the 20th century nothing stays simple. In New Jersey deer hunting has been bureaucratized. Any hunter caught with liquor on his breath by a game warden is likely to lose his license. Applicants for licenses must show that they have passed a course in gun safety, during which they are drilled in such elementary but often overlooked things as unloading before climbing a fence and holding fire when they cannot clearly see the quarry. Hunters in New Jersey must wear at least 200 sq. in. of bright orange material on their clothes; they may not hunt within...
...Most people complain about the paper work only if they don't get a deer," says Frank Fennesz, 19, of Union City, as he hefts 113 Ibs. of venison-to-be back into the bed of his pickup. Fennesz's only complaint is the rainy weather, not be cause he minds getting wet but because rain turns dry, rustling leaves into a soundless carpet of mush. "If you don't see the deer, you can't hear them in weather like this." Chatting with one an other as they stand around in the glare of headlights...