Why can you only hunt certain game in certain seasons?
When deer season rolls around, hunters flock to the forests where these animals congregate, many of them looking for a six-point trophy to hang above the fireplace. Others have visions of just an invigorating outing and some deer burgers in the freezer for the rest of the year. It’s a big deal for sport hunters — they don’t get to hunt deer whenever they want to, after all. They have to wait for opening day. “Hunting season” is an artificial construct. It’s not just the day when deer, or turkey or quail or any other type of game, are expected to be out in the open for hunters to kill (also known as “harvesting”). Opening and closing days for all types of game are determined by departments of natural resources, or variations thereof, for each different state in the country. Hunting seasons for all types of game vary from state to state, although typically by no more than a month. In South Carolina, for example, wild turkey spring season runs from April 1 to May 1 [source:
