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During the second week of October, a curious thing happened in the software world: Windows 98 was not the top-selling CD-ROM in the nation. What was? Deerhunter II, a $20 sequel that pits high-tech computer gamers against low-tech deer. While this upset may have ruined breakfast for a few Microsofties, it came as no surprise to anyone who's been watching the computer-gaming world during the past year. Software programs that simulate hunting have dominated the charts ever since GT Interactive created the original Deer Hunter this past January; four hunt-and-shoot titles were...
Cedric aims his father's .44 Ruger. Hesitates. His father has always told him to wait until the deer turns, so that he can have a clear shot at the side, through the heart and lungs just behind the foreleg. The buck senses their presence. Cedric swears the buck looks right at him. His father whispers, "Shoot! Shoot! Shoot...
Cedric squeezes the trigger. The big buck drops a mere 28 steps from them: A nine-pointer with a 14-in. spread of antlers. It is the second largest buck killed in the statewide youth hunt that kicked off the deer season last weekend...
...counselors report that kids who are taught to hunt responsibly are generally among the more mature and better-mannered--and saner--adolescents in the wilds of modern American culture. Cesario Guerrero, an agricultural-science teacher, leads kids from tough neighborhoods in inner-city Houston on hunting trips for deer and wild hogs and observes that these students often "become part of a different crowd" when they return. "It gives them a pride...
...only with a bow and arrow, a more interesting challenge. But they do not, like the animal-rights advocates, get political about it. One friend of mine carries only a pistol with him when he walks in the woods; he uses it to administer the coup de grace to deer that sloppy hunters have merely wounded. For myself, I sometimes wish that hunting were catch-and-release, that, as I do when muskie fishing, I could somehow throw the deer back...