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You are thinking like a modern hunter with access to grocery stores and no competition or predation from Cave Bears and Sabertooth Tigers to name a few.

...and knocking down a testosterone addled and enraged buck at 100 yds with a rifle, not by getting a few feet away with a stick with a stone point and risking getting gored for your pains!

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getting a few feet away with a stick with a stone point and risking getting gored for your pains!
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While being stalked by a packs of Smilodons and Chasmaporthetes, and having to pass throughout the territory of a cave bear on the way home.