That got business lobbies in revolt, so legislators are hustling to repeal the tax before it kicks in in December--a task made more difficult by their traditional two-week November break for deer hunting.
Papa has an idea they would make good deer-hunting ponies, beign hardy and small and able to keep up with the dogs through the brush.
Such semiautomatic weapons also are not much use for hunting deer and the like.
Today, turkey hunting is popular throughout the US, and many hunters claim that the thrill and required skill is greater than that of hunting deer.
Among those privileges is Maine's current craze, the hunting of deer with (highly sophisticated) bows and arrows, since guns may not be fired without permission on private land.
Livestock fairs and markets have been closed, hunting of deer, foxes and hares banned, postal workers ordered to leave mail at farm gates and ramblers warned to stay off fields.
"You're like a deer or elk in hunting season, " says Joe Tombari, a high-school teacher in Spokane, who sometimes locks the door of his classroom during off-periods and checks under his car before he gets near it.
In 2006, he was sentenced to five years in prison for hunting a protected deer, but he was released on bail after spending less than a week in jail.
King John built Odiham Castle as a stopping place where he could pursue his passion for hunting in its Royal Deer Park.
The fun is, you get to see how the pro sports sausage is made, rather than filling time with another NBC Sports Network hunting show to see how the deer sausage is made.
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If blockbusters become rarer than they already are, chasing solely after them could be akin to hunting unicorns when there are plenty of deer to shoot.
One link even took us to a life-size deer decoy at Cabela's, a Nebraska-based hunting and outdoor site.
"There are problems with forestry, damage to crops, road traffic accidents and deer need to be moved on from problem locations and stag hunting does that very well, " he said.
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At refined Richmond pop into 17th-century Ham House, then Richmond Park, hunting ground of Henry VIII who, thankfully, did not finish off all the deer - hundreds still roam.
Ronan Gorman of the Alliance tells me stag hunting is a "non-lethal way of dealing with the problem of a rapidly increasing deer population".
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My character as a painter is founded on a childhood spent on orchards with a father who each year took us boys hunting in the Urewera, who read us tales of wild places and man eaters and shot deer with the 303 rifle, and later, the bow and arrow in emulation of the late great American archer, Howard Hill.
Hunters of elk, mule deer, and pronghorn antelope are even more devoted--there can be a two-year waiting list during hunting season.
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