Persuasive Speech of Fact - Devin Betzen
Channel: Devin Betzen
Date: 2016-03-16

Introduction Paragraph: Bow, black-powder rifle, high power rifle, and late season. These are all words and season’s that a deer hunter lives for. Deer hunting is not only a sport, but for some people and families it is a way of life. Deer hunting is a great thing for many reasons; it teaches today’s youth respect, responsibility, and patience. It also keeps the deer population regulated to prevent disease, motor-vehicle accidents, and crop and land damage. And last but not least, it helps with the economy in ways such as providing jobs, bringing money into the state’s wildlife refuge, and it is a cheaper way for some families to get the protein that they need to survive and grow.
Body: 
I. Let’s start off by filling out the proper paperwork and looking at the details on how deer hunting teaches today’s youth so many valuable lessons such as respect, responsibility and patience.
A. In 2006, United States Fish and Wildlife Service data revealed there were at least 1.8 million youth between the ages of 6 and 15 who hunted annually.  (Tom Allen, 2013)
B. Hunter’s ages 12 through 29 must have completed firearm hunter education and carry proof on themselves at all times. (Tom Allen, 2013)
C. “Many youth get to enjoy a weekend deer hunt where a whole weekend was planned out where youth had a safe environment to learn how to shoot and hunt, all under the careful eye of a mentor.” (North Platte Telegraph, 2010)
II. Along with what deer hunting teaches our youth, we can now bundle up and put on our hunter’s orange and see how hunting helps to regulate the deer population
A. White-tailed deer are a valuable, renewable, natural resource that must be managed, or they will overpopulate. Overpopulation leads to disease, increased motor-vehicle accidents, as well as crop and land damage.
B. Deer attract ticks that are looking for a host. Tick females latch onto a host and drink its blood, then after a number of days when the tick is engorged, it will drop off and overwinters in the leaf litter on the forest floor where they will stay until spring.
1. The female tick will lay several hundred, to a few thousand eggs in clusters. (White-Tailed Deer Habitat: Ecology and Management on Rangelands) Ticks alone carry many diseases that can then spread to other animals and even humans.
III. Now that we see how deer hunting helps our youth and helps to keep the population regulated, we can look through the scope at how deer hunting helps the economy.
A. Deer hunting requires many jobs and duties, such as, Game and Park Wardens, regulators and the countless jobs it takes for all of the supplies to be produced, that it takes to go hunting (Tom Allen, 2013)
B. $24.6 billion are paid out in salaries and wages to government and habitat workers which opens up 680,000 jobs in the United States for the supplies it takes to go hunting. There is another $38.3 billion spent in total expenditures with $86.9 billion in overall economic output. Hunting overall brought in more revenue than Google or Goldman Sachs Group.
C. If hunting were a company, the amount spent by sportsmen and women to support their hunting activities would place it number 75 on the fortune 500 list.  (Tom Allen, 2013)

Conclusion Paragraph:
Looking back, we have filled out the proper paperwork and looked at the details on how deer hunting teaches our youth respect, responsibility and patience. Bundled up and put on our hunter’s orange as we took note on how hunting keeps the deer population regulated. Finally we took a look through the scope at how deer hunting helps the economy. So the next time you see a man or woman in camouflage with a bright orange vest or hat on, keep in mind they are doing you a personal favor by bettering our youth, keeping our roads safe, keeping us healthy, and putting money back into the economy. Happy hunting.

Works Cited
Brian J. MacGowan, L. A. (2014). Corn and Soybean Depredation by Wildlife. West Lafayette: Purdue University.
News, H. (2008, October 30). Retrieved from Insurance Institute for Highway Loss Data Institute: http://www.iihs.org/iihs/news/desktopnews/collisions-with-deer-and-other-animals-spike-in-november-fatal-crashes-up-50-since-2000
North Platte Telegraph. (2010, October 10).
Timothy Edward Fulbright, J. A.-S. (2013). White-Tailed Deer Habitat: Ecology and Management on Rangelands. Texas A&M University Press.
Tom Allen, R. S. (2013). Hunting in America An Economic Force for Conservation. Washington, DC: Association of Fish and Wildlife Agencies.