The Puritans: Why Did They Hunt?

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Animals the Puritans hunted
Puritan hunting was not just a sport, this was something they had to do, because if they would not trap they would not live. Everything thing they hunted they would eat, but they did not just eat the animal they would use everything fur, bones and the meat. If they would not use the fur bones or meat they would trade it off for something they needed to have.
Most of the animals they hunted are the same that we hunt today. The animals they hunted are white-tailed deer, wild turkey, rabbits, squirrels, coons, beaver, opossum, muskrat, and eagle yes I said eagle!!!! When the Puritans came over they did not know anything so the people that helped were the Native Americans. They showed them everything where, when, and