Why can’t American movies get hunting scenes right?

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Probably because there are only around 6 dudes online who would ever notice and then gaf about the species of deer being hunted in a scene

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There are about 10-15 million hunters in America that would beg to differ. Not to mention the non hunters who are very aware of the deer species that exist on this continent.

The rest of your post makes sense, I just had to counter this gross misconception

Have you ever gone hunting in your life? No judgment here

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red deer from Europe

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They imported the deer? I'm confused.

I'm surprised, as a hunter, you didn't consider the most obvious issue: shooting schedule vs hunting season. Most states prevent taking even domesticated game outside their designated hunting seasons with certain tightly controlled exceptions ie deer on your own property that have been shown to be damaging crops.

Most hunting seasons are linked to specific species. While I don't recall ever reading a specific exemption for non-indigenous species, it follows that if there are specific seasons for white-tailed, black-tailed, or mule deer in a state, the seasons would not protect something like a red deer.

I imagine it is something as simple as that. Shooting schedules for movies are pretty tightly controlled, and while the actual shot/death could be a second unit shot once primary has wrapped, if you shoot and wrap in the spring/summer, then have the deer taken in the fall, you have continuity issues.

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No Country for Old Men used a hunting scene to set up the drug money discovery and it seemed spot on, but I didn’t stop to consider if those antelope belonged in West Texas. Now I’m curious.

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Googled it and yes they are

Although you could write off any kind of exotic in Texas and just say they escaped some ranch


Like nilgai in south Texas

Wait... so your complaint is that, in a hunting scene, the animals they are hunting are the wrong type of deer or whatever for where they are hunting?

Seriously?

It’s likely based on what’s available for the least expense or what the director thinks looks best on screen. Most of the audience dgas.

There's always Bambi!

(Originally a Roe Deer because the writer was a European)...

But Walt was having none of that!

Bambi's mother was shot in good 'Ol Maine, full of good 'Ol white-tailed deer!

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Why can’t these idiots actually film a realistic hunting scene?

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Because nobody gives a shite?

Because nobody takes directors on hunting trips