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In the Suburbs, What to Do About a Deer
Washington Post ^
| September 12, 2002
| Bob Levey
Posted on 09/13/2002 6:01:11 AM PDT by SJackson
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posted on
09/13/2002 6:01:11 AM PDT
by
SJackson
To: SJackson
Right on. Fresh Venison served up.
The only way to handle a Fresh kill.
To: SJackson
As Scooby Doo used to say....Yummm Yummm!
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posted on
09/13/2002 6:03:59 AM PDT
by
TheCause
To: SJackson
Man, I love venison.
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posted on
09/13/2002 6:04:17 AM PDT
by
wideawake
To: SJackson
In '90 I was on the BW Parkway when traffic came to a stop (not surprising...), some yuppie had hit a deer. Well the animal was clearly in great pain and beyond help. the yuppie was fidgeting about, "Can't we do something? Can't we do something?" This other guy turned to me an said, "Hold it's head." I did so and he cut its throat with a Spyderco. The yuppie barfed all down the front of his suit.
To: SJackson
"I sat on the curb and stroked the deer's head," Cynthia writes. "He responded by opening his eyes and putting his head in my hands. . . . I wished that everyone could feel what I felt at that moment." Yeah, people as stupid as you usually end up in the hospital or even the morgue. An injured wild animal is dangerous.
To: Tijeras_Slim
It was much more merciful to cut the deer's throat so it could die quickly than to let it go on suffering.
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posted on
09/13/2002 6:10:32 AM PDT
by
MEGoody
To: SJackson
"Cynthia approached the obviously dying animal "to see what help I could offer." Meanwhile, a security guard called Montgomery County police, and a crowd (including several children) began to gather."
And unfortunatly the deer did not put a hoof through this morons esophagus! Dang it, I hate it when they let the idiots slide with thier own stupidity.
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posted on
09/13/2002 6:20:39 AM PDT
by
drgnwrks
To: MEGoody
As things have been built up around me, we have an infestation of hungry, scrawny deer.
I gave up having a garden, they are eating my landscaping, and getting hit in front of the house with depressing regularity. When they are hit, they are given to people on a waiting list.
I hope the anti-hunters are happy.
Because of the closeness to the street and a nearby conservation area, I cannot harvest venison, that my wife dearly loves....though a brother-in-law bow hunter has been making quiet propositions to me about dawn visits......
Despite this abundance we have new urban people moving in who put those fiberglass deer statues on their lawns..while nearby, deer graze in broad daylight on the grounds of a local college, and I surprise them when I open the front door.
It was a thrill to see them the first time, twenty years ago. Now they are like locusts.
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posted on
09/13/2002 6:21:14 AM PDT
by
Gorzaloon
To: hopespringseternal
I notice she sez "he"....he opened his eyes and tried to "Gore" her with his last bits of energy.
Yes,Cynthia,I too have fealt what you did,it's a habit of mine to admire the animals strength and beauty and even thank the Lord for the animal....then it's time to get to work.
Archery opener this weekend,I hope I do get that fealing.
To: Minnesoootan
It's almost hunting season bump!
To: Tijeras_Slim
the yuppie was fidgeting about, "Can't we do something? Sure, he could have paid to CareFlight it out to the nearest veterinary trauma center, then paid for emergency care, convalesence and rehabilitation back to the nearest grassy area adjoining a highway.
To: SJackson
Deer - It's The Other Red Meat!
To: SJackson
Years ago when I was working in the Oil Fields in the South Texas town of Sonora, my crew came upon a nice 10 point buck that had it's hind leg hung up in the barbed-wire fence.
The three of us got a good hold of the buck, flipped him over and freed the snagged leg. After releasing him and observing that he was having severe trouble with his bum leg, we discused catching him again, tying him up and them butchering him after our well site job was completed (November-Deer Season).
It appeared that the buck heard us very clearly 'cause he suddenly "healed" and jumped the fence as he would any other day and took off into the brush.
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posted on
09/13/2002 6:33:36 AM PDT
by
Deguello
To: Gorzaloon
My bow hunter friend has made similar propositions to me and I will probably take him up on it. It's safe, quiet, and very lethal in the right hands.
Just make sure he is good, you don't want to end up with a dying deer with an arrow stuck in it and yuppies caressing it.
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posted on
09/13/2002 6:33:56 AM PDT
by
palmer
To: SJackson
A few years back I was returning from bowhunting on November 6, which is the beginning of the rut around here. Coincedently, a six-pointer stepped directly in front of my Bronco on the way home, knocking it into the ditch and scattering all sorts of glass and plastic from the front of my truck all over the road.
The next car along saw what happened, and called the accident into the police on her cell phone.
Anyway, I walked back to my truck and got out my buck knife and had just dispatched the deer with a quick stick in the heart over the animal's back (the safest way to do it, by the way) when a police cruiser pulled up, lights flashing, and a young (20-something) officer got out of the car.
The officer walked up to me, and looking at me, dressed in full camo and face paint, with my hunting license pinned to my back, laughed and said "Man, you must've wanted that buck pretty bad...."
I got about 50 pounds of processed venison out of it, but it was the most expensive deer I ever killed, that's for sure... $2200 worth of vehicle damage worth...
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posted on
09/13/2002 6:58:33 AM PDT
by
Kenton
To: dd5339
ping
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posted on
09/13/2002 7:04:53 AM PDT
by
Vic3O3
To: Johnny Gage
Fresh Venison served up. Don't you have to age venison just like beef? At least bleed the carcass and let it hang for a while.
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posted on
09/13/2002 7:06:50 AM PDT
by
strela
To: TonyInOhio
Doh! A deer! A female deer...
To: Kenton
Powder..Patch..Ball FIRE!
LOL! I got skunked one year with my Hawken, and about a week later bashed a big doe with my oldsmobile.
The joke later was "couldn't get one with my 50 so I had to use my '88'".
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