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The memory is even more special because those stately park-like hardwoods were logged off the next spring. I probably had the last hunt of anyone in those old trees.
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The logging opened up the ground to sunlight, making for better browse (deer fodder) ..... deer are creatures of edges, so as long as the whole area was not clear-cut, opening up some of the forest should help deer habitat.
Nothing wrong with an SKS for a deer rifle, so long as it puts the (soft-pointed!) bullet where it needs to be, with sufficient energy to do the job when it gets there. Too many people (one is too many, and I know of at least one) try to use FMJ ammo out of an SKS to hunt deer, resulting in lost, wounded game.