I am familiar with the terrain in Virginia,I have been there a few times as I know people in Roanoke and Richmond and have driven through the state a couple of times (my cousin also lives in Oakton,VA just outside D.C.).Yes it has a lot of woodland,and its MUCH hotter there in the summer than NZ (there is hardly any humidity here).Deer are hunted on both private and public land here,there are few hunting regulations in this country and deer may be hunted year round with no restrictions on the number shot or caliber used.There are more deer around now than there have been for several decades,mainly because the price of venison has bottomed out so farmers are no longer capturing them in the wild to use for breeding stock,so their numbers are growing.Hunting has always been the sport of the common man in this country,but I see that changing in the future as there is now big money to be made with the sale of hunting (mainly Red deer and Himalayan thar) to wealthy sportsmen so a lot of private land that used to be available to local hunters is now closed off and used by safari type operations.However there is vast amounts of public land available to hunters for free,so as long as that continues I guess things will still be OK for hunters here.I actually had to help pull down hunting camp this past week,the company I work for hired out several marquees (tents) to a safari operation who had a prince from Brunei coming out to hunt Red deer up in the mountains,he had a staff of 45 who apparently accompany him everywhere,he even had a spa installed just for the couple days he was there.They probably just took him up in their helicopter,pointed out the animal(s) to him,I suppose he pulled the trigger but thats about all.Not really hunting is it.