Posted on 07/28/2007 5:04:07 PM PDT by Sybeck1
From a resident of Michigan standpoint, I have to disagree. I live in S.E. Michigan north of Detroit and the main reason for the overpopulation of deer is the lack of public lands in which to hunt them. There are so many subdivisions being built in wooded areas with the intent being to cause as little impact on the environment as possible that these small wooded enclaves are where the deer are making their homes. And there is no way in heck that these rats can be hunted safely........
I live in a very high densely populated area which happens to have a drainage ditch flowing along the east border of the sub and a wooded area about 1/10th of a mile square. In this tiny wooded enclave I have seen the following: 2 years ago beavers had damned up the drainage ditch which created a problem with overflow and the DNR had to be called to trap them and destroy their damn. I also saw a small herd of 5 deer, a coyote, a fox, 2 rooster pheasants and several hens, 2 grouse roosting in a tree and a small flock of turkeys...........
The bottom line is that what remains of their natural habitat is where they are going to remain and thrive. We can't shoot them so the only predators left are the cars and trucks that hit them on the highways.........
I'm not even going to mention the scores of possums, coons and squirrels that I have trapped and the equally abundant numbers of rabbits that I have shot...........
I know grown men, that are out and out afraid of guns. “I just don’t like them, I won’t have one in my house” etc. Yet two years ago after a hurricane knocked the power out for a week and the cops were busy one of the nancy boys asked if he could borrow one. I offered to sell him one and he refused and got bent out of shape. Tough sh*t.
“That concerned us because of the scavengers, the possibility of the coyotes moving into that area, the buzzards and the smell,” Perkins said. “It was a general health concern.”
That there’s what got him in trouble. He could have made a killing selling the meat or letting hunters onto his land, you know, to “help.”
Death to BambI.
Shoot, shovel, shut up.
Shame he had to waste the meat.
It’s illegal to sell venison in Tennessee
Heh. BambI. That’s rastafarian for “Bambi”.
Jah, mon.
Hear what you’re saying hon, but understand that if you don’t control the deer population, they get blue tongue and wasting disease to name a few, and die horribly. I’d rather see them killed by a gun and left to rot than go that way.
Shoot’em close to the truck.
I don’t know what TN regs. are - but often on depredation permits for deer or furbearers the meat, pelt, etc. can’t be utilized per the law.
Funny thing though, Bambi was a BOY deer. I hear of a fair number of people named Bambi, but they are all GIRLS! How did that happen?
That’s not the case in TN. They are encouraged to use the meat. But the heat in summer makes that difficult
Lemme guess..... More fun to shoot the deer?
According to my brother, Mississippi is that way. With these permits you cannot eat the meat and have to let it lay where is was shot. He is a cotton duster and has flown over many cotton fields with dear laying dead around the fields.
He uses a cotton dust on the leaves of his okra and a few veggies that the deer don’t like. But this year they have eaten about all his peas and corn. You cn bet he will have a fresh deer in his freezer soon.
Ok, the problem here is he wasted the meat.
He should have been able to offer hunting priv’s to get them thinned out. Shooting them and leaving them to rot is simply wasteful.
Because spraying enough stuff that would be effective would cost several orders of magnitude more than $30 in ammo - probably more than the cost of the damage.
To farmers (justifiably), deer are merely destructive pests. You wouldn’t object to killing 40 mice in your house, so why object to a farmer killing 40 deer in his fields? Mice are cute too!
Do you know what Roundup Ready means?
hhaaaa-haaaa-haaa-haaa-haaa
bad tasting stuff for the poor venison!!!
Why not declare open season and shoot the venison?
That will be some tasty eatin!!!
Better yet, they can be given to the needy to eat.
Win win situation.
Heck, I’ll even provide my own weapons and ammo if I can get in on the action.
Might even get to blast a few feral CATS while at it!!
Who-waa
Please read the entire thread.
If the deer ate thousands of dollars worth of landscaping, you might change your tune.
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