Hunting as an acceptable form of outdoor recreation appears to be under increasing public condemnation. Recent attacks on hunting and trapping in New Jersey, for instance, have taken the form of court injunctions (Great Swamp National Wildlife Refuge), State legislation (ban on leg-hold traps in most areas of the state) and local ordinances (ban on discharge of firearms in several townships and pressure for similar action in many more). Proliferation of journalistic articles for and against hunting adds further credence to this supposition. Nonetheless, the extent of literature on this topic consists of attacks and rebuttals--editorial journalism without new information. Systematic studies are unavailable. Initial studies of attitudes in the general population must therefore be exploratory and descriptive. The present study assesses the magnitude of anti-hunting sentiment in the State of New Jersey and describes some factors which are related to a person's attitude on deer hunting.