Compare and Contrast

Compare and Contrast
Drew Eldridge
English 1101
October 20, 2009
Deer Hunting and Duck Hunting
Deer season and duck season are both amazing times of the year. Hundreds of hunters take to the woods to try and harvest the trophy animal. These two types of hunting have many differences and similarities from environment, conditions, and the equipment used.
Deer and Duck hunting are both great opportunities to explore the outdoors. Deer hunting takes place in the woods from lush pine thickets, to hardwood bottoms to, open fields. The deer prefer and environment with good cover to hide and with enough food to support themselves. Deer do not like to travel long distances for their resources. Duck hunting is surrounded by swamps, ponds, and open bodies of water depending on the duck. Ducks will fly miles to find a food source. They will roost in one pond and fly to another for food only to fly back to their roost later that day. There are a large variety of ducks and each prefers a different environment. Wooducks prefer small swamps to live in while the Mallards prefer open bodies suck as large lakes. Both animals have a magnificent environment to hunt in.
The environment of the animals has a large impact on hunting them the conditions which a person hunts them is also very important. The deer love the cold weather as do the ducks. The moon has a large factor on the deer’s movement. If the moon is full the deer will move at night instead of in morning or afternoon making it difficult to harvest one; however, the ducks will not fly at night. The ducks always wait until morning and the afternoons to fly. The cold weather makes hunting conditions harder. While deer hunting the wind in a tree stand can be hard to handle. When duck hunting the hunter is surrounded by water the entire time making the cold much more piercing.