Many deer hunters trail their love of the hunt onto the computer screen. The hunt, however, can be costly or time consuming if you do not know how to find free deer hunting games online. Stalking free deer hunting games can be as challenging as the real thing. While many computerized deer hunting games are for sale, by the time you get through buying a game system and or software it can get expensive. Online alternatives exist for those reluctant to shuck out hard earned cash.

While deer hunters enjoy the outdoors, there is no end to the digital deer season and you do not have to rise before dawn, get wet or be cold. Just log on and push some buttons and you are hunting.

If you want to try different terrains or try to bag a big buck from your dreams, chances are you will find what you are looking for online. And you will not have to pay for it. There are several steps to be done: You will need to evaluate your computer equipment, and Internet connection before pulling the trigger on which game you want to play, you will need to test run to evaluated graphics and determine if this is where you want to spend your time,and you will need to search for yourself.

Take a look at your computer equipment just like you would your shotgun or rifle. There no point of searching for the newest 3D images and games if you working with dial up on a sputtering computer. That would be like trying to bag a trophy buck with a .22 rifle at long range. However, just because you have an old computer or slow connections will not stop completely but it will limit your choices. Some older games will work better with slow equipment. The games might not need to be played without a joy stick, but having one never hurts.

Having enough memory is important for the games to work well. Make sure if you are limited on memory to clear out any pictures or videos you did not really need anyway.

If it is just your connection that is slow, just remember to allow for longer download times. You got what you got; it just means you have to fit it to that.

As in all games you might want to clean your mouse before you start. You don’t want a speck of dust messing up your shot. That would be like sneezing as you pulled the trigger in the wild.

There are two choices when looking for a free deer hunting game online. You can look for free trial downloads of games available for purchase or you can go to sites that offer free games.

Online game sites that offer deer hunting games

1. ESPN Outdoors along with several different hunting games offers one shockwave deer hunting game.
2. Arcade Town offers Deer Drive a 25.3 MB game download. http://www.arcadetown.com/deerdrive/download.asp?aid=755244
3. Shooting Games 60 offers two games, Bow hunter Target Challenge and Deer Hunt that are simple target games that the weakest computer could play with no problem with. http://www.shootinggames60.com/cat/11/Hunting-Games/p1.htm
4. Hunting.net offers a simple shooting game called Deer Hunter. http://www.huntingnet.com/games/#
5. File Dudes offer a 3D shooting game called Deer Drive 1.5 http://www.filedudes.com/Deer_Drive-getfile-41845.html

Free trials

1. Games 2 download now offers a free trial of "Deer Hunter 2005" and "Cabellas Grand Slam Hunting" to download.http://www.biggamedownloads.com/free-sports-games/index.htm
2. Down Load Free Games offers 60 free minutes of wild deer hunter 2005. The game is a 531 MB game for windows 2000/XP which has 6 different locations and you can carry 2 of 17 weapons. http://www.download-free-games.com/simulation/deer_hunter_2005.htm
3. Terragame.com also offers the 531 MB demo of the deer hunting game called: Deer Hunter the 2005 season http://www.terragame.com/downloadable/hunt/index_1_sort2.html

Look around yourself.

You will never know when the next best deer hunting game will come along, or when a new company will want you to see and demo their latest product. It never hurts to look for what online. Most of what they offer is Demos so keep an eye out for the next best thing. You can run simple searches on Google. It also never hurts to look on YouTube for videos. Sometimes a new release will be advertised there before it becomes available.

Just remember to make certain you have a good spy ware because some sites offering deer hunting games can be filled with pop ups like free game sites can be. You will notice that many places offer the same demos and games. You can also check with the free game sites to find what they might have to offer.

Forget seasons, forget having to clean your gun, forget about having to keep quiet or still, and especially forget about pushing the alarm before dawn because it all happens in the digital world. The thrill of the hunt might not be as thrilling as the real thing, but if you miss you can always push a reset button. And you will never have one of those in the wild.

Most importantly, have fun.