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Posted on 10/04/2014 10:26:32 AM PDT by smokingfrog
The start of bow-hunting season has prompted an outrage in the Suffolk County community of Kings Park.
As CBS 2’s Dave Carlin reported exclusively Thursday, residents are upset that bow-hunting is being allowed closer to homes inside a recently-renovated nature trail.
Bow-hunter Scott Trafas was readying his bow Thursday, and deer along the Kings Park trail would be well advised to run. It is mating season for the animals, and for Trafas, it’s time to hunt.
“We need to control the deer population,” Trafas said. “I mean, people complain that deer run out, and they’re in the road, and they’re hitting them with their their cars.”
The state would like to reduce the deer population in the area by as much as 40 percent. To help hunters accomplish that goal, the rules changed this year.
Instead of keeping hunters 500 feet away from homes, they can now be as close as just 150 feet away.
Homeowners said that is foolish.
(Excerpt) Read more at newyork.cbslocal.com ...
Bring in a pack of wolves and see if the homeowners like that better than bow hunters.
Coyotes are better suited for it. But they won’t go after the deer till all the cats and small dogs in the area are consumed first
And the downside?
Yotes also kill young quail and turkeys, and can also take down calves and calving cows.
If they can be bred to only consume democrats, they need to be imported like Liberians.
We were playing golf this summer at one of the courses in Bandera that is surrounded by homes. Counted at least 25 deer as close as 15 feet of the back door on one home. Most didn’t even both to look up or acknowledge the presence of our golf cart, even though it was relatively noisy. Not surprising that homeowner has given up trying to have anything in their back yard except for cactus. Deer are smart enough to have found a safe haven but seems like it would be a perfect place for bow hunters.
I read it, didn’t watch the video.
But I wonder how many more deer will get bagged by moving 350 ft closer to homes? Is this like those signs on the roads that tell the deer where to cross? Do all the deer hide out under that invisible 500 ft mark? If so, now they’ll have to crowd in even further to that 150 mark. At that point. homeowners should be able to walk over and club them. LOL
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I have to side with the homeowners. You just can’t trust those damn assault bows.
I read somewhere that Democrats, like skunks, smell bad and taste worse. Buzzards would probably pass them by.
Read the details and think.
The objection is NOT to hunting, it is to the reduction in distance from homes.
I hunt and 150 feet is too damn close, unless you are the home owner.
500 feet is close enough.
Liberals don’t like the deer coming on their property but yet don’t want them thinned out. It must really suck to be a liberal. I’m so thankful that I’m not one.
Read the details and think.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/3211283/posts?page=6#6
>>Counted at least 25 deer as close as 15 feet of the back door on one home. <<
And you want the hunters to wait until the deer are 500 feet away from the homes?
150 feet doesn’t seem like much. You have to assume the hunters are going to use some common sense and not try to take too long a shot. But in a heavily wooded area, I would think the arrow would not travel very far before hitting a tree or something if the hunter did happen to miss the deer.
They have a choice. Venison in somebody’s freeze, or venison through their windshield.
That depends entirely upon terrain and the direction of the shot.
The average deer taken with a bow is at about 18 yards.
https://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20100929134109AA6i0rx
While it's not completely impossible that someone could be hit by an arrow, it's not too likely that anyone will be hit by the bow, except maybe the hunter. Do libs understand how anything works?
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Lots of uses for a bow & arrow...
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