Posted on 07/28/2007 5:04:07 PM PDT by Sybeck1
LOL! Charleton Heston was badgered by his “anti-gun” film industry associates for guns when the LA riots erupted. There you go.
Bottom Line: It’s always better to have one than be caught needing one.
“We had a good friend killed when a deer went through his windshield. We were on the Trace several years ago and a deer jumped the car which was in front of us. I had never seen a deer jump like that.”
Sorry to hear about your friend. I was landing at the Dickson Cty, Tn. airport one night and had just touched down when four deer ran right out onto the runway. I managed to swerve around them which is kind of hard to do in a Cessna. I was shaking like a leaf when I shut down. Tennessee is just covered up with deer.
If he’s going to let the deer rot, they should make him bury them. That will slow him down.
He did, it was high velocity lead.
Try monofilament fishing line. Unless the deer are really running, they hate feeling it on their legs and won’t try to break through it.
I replace my line in my fishing poles twice a season, and have about 900 yards of 60lb test line to put to use, lemme know if they want a box of knotted up used saltwater fishing line.
The libs will be whining if you shoot the predators. Remember the big cats (IIRC Cougars) in California that took out joggers and bicyclists?
How long has it been since you moved out of the city? If a deer ate half of your paycheck, I'm sure you'd be pissed. What he did was completely legal, too.
I hate when ignorant city people try to make rules for those who feed and clothe the rest of the world.
I ain't cleaning 40.
Why not a bow season?
Dry cleaners?
It’s a sahme the farmer didn’t make provision to distribute the meat instead of letting it rot, thus creating a possible health issue.
Deer are vermin in a pretty package.
There is nothing you can spray on a crop that will provide significant protection over the course of a growing season.
Areas that never had significant deer populations are over run now. And with the deer comes ticks and tick-borne illness.
I’m 1000 miles from Pennsylvania and we are now seeing Lyme’s disease locally. There are also confirmed cases of Tulermia in our area most likely transmitted by tick bites.
We also have confirmed cougar sightings in our area, they most likely came here hunting the deer. I have real concern for my children, pets and livestock.
City folk see a deer and say ooooooh.
I see deer making suicidal dashes in front of my car and say arrrrrrrrgh.
True, but he should of taken it and had it butchered and given to the food bank or the Memphis Union Mission to feed the homeless. It was a waste of perfectly edible food. It becomes no different than when the hide hunters left the buffalo on the plains after they skinned them.
It is totally legal, but I disagree with the justified part. I aways figured that a farmer that couldn't afford to feed a few deer was just about to broke to be in business. Maybe he should sell and let someone with a little more financing take over.
The average deer eats 8 lbs of forage per 100lbs of body weight per day.
Over the course of a season (6 mos), them 40 deer would eat about 57,600 lbs of crop.
That more than “a few”
"Yeah, two bucks."
*slap*
I’d be happy to ship you about thirty of them that cross my drive every morning and evening.
Deer are like rabbits, they exist to provide meat for the next rung up the food chain. If that predator is not there, they breed until starvation culls the herd.
Much more humane to shoot a few than to wait until thousands starve.
It’s rather unfair to call someone you do not know a creep or thug. He’s probably a typical farmer, fighting to stay afloat, bankers calling about loans, bad weather and on top of it all deer eating what little profit he may make that year. Those beautiful deer may mean his kids don’t get new clothes for the coming school year, or even worse, losing every thing he owns.
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