I mean, I love venison.
But deer are simply giant rats, sometimes with antlers.
When I lived outside of NYC, the deer would literally eat my bushes, trees, etc. I'd walk outside and those vermin wouldn't even run....they'd look at me with this "GFY...I'm eating, man" look.
If I was allowed to kill them, I'd have done so. Compound bow would do the trick and avoid the risk of killing my neighbor.
Deer on my dinner plate or my jerky bag, that's ok.
Otherwise, they're big rats.
A deer killed an old lady who was out tending her garden. Happened in a wealthy suburb of Pittsburgh. The township then started bow season. I haven’t heard of another attack.
Me too. I have a small commercial orchard bordered by woods. Owners of woods don’t allow hunting. Bastards are like locusts. A fence is too expensive ugly as hell. Game warden will be over tomorrow to review damage and permit me to shoot them. No limit, at nights, can use spotlights. My scoped Mosin nagant with bayonet is going to get a workout.
In your damning of deer, you left out that they host ticks.
A big problem in coastal New England.
You are right about the deer destroying backyards. And I can’t find any fence builders to build a fence around my backyard. They are so busy, they can’t even come out and give me an estimate for a month or more.