Deer Hunting Armies

The state of Wisconsin has gone an entire deer hunting season without someone getting killed. Nice job Wisconsin.  I know people from Wisconsin and it is no small feat.  In Wisconsin, there were over 600,000 hunters. Let’s restate that number. Over the last two months, the eighth largest army in the world – more men under arms than Iran; more than France and Germany combined – deployed to the woods of a single American state to help keep the deer menace at bay. But that pales in comparison to the 750,000 who are in the woods of Pennsylvania this week. Michigan’s 700,000 hunters have now returned home. Toss in a quarter million hunters in West Virginia, and it is literally the case that the hunters of those four states alone would comprise the largest army in the world.

That is from Apollo, via Andrew Sullivan.