I hunted fallow deer on Little St. Simons Island, GA in the late 1990s and early 2000s. I was lucky to be a friend of a member of the Little St. Simons Hunting Club. The hunts were still hunts with shots at anywhere from 5 yds to 300 yds. The island was completely undeveloped with the exception of the owner's 1920s family lodge and several newer lodges.

Fallow deer had been imported in about the 1920s by the owner (the Berolzheimer family). Fallow deer survived and multiplied. Soon there was a very sustainable fallow deer herd. The owners formed a hunting club with lodge that paid for a full time conservation team.

The hunts were great events with club members from across the SE USA.

Unfortunately, Little St. Simons was sold to a wealthy northerner. The buyer decided that neither fallow deer nor a hunting club were appropriate so both went away.