Will I Never Be Left Alone!!!!!

[Don_G]

Just went on the front porch for a quiet smoke at my Aunt's place in the country and bagged my fifth deer poaching in her garden in two days.

[Demobrat]

1. By bagged

do you mean shot?

[Maddy McCall]

2. Yup...that's what he means.

[Don_G]

8. As In Reap Meat

They're active now and I'm going to have to wait until the morning to help my cousin to slice up the critter to fit into the fifth freezer.

Country life is nice, but there are another set of problems when the only surrounding neighbor is a National Forest.

[Maddy McCall]

15. Fifth freezer?

Do you have a huge family? Do you guys eat five freezers of deer meat each year?


God god! I love deer sausage (if processed properly) but I have never heard of anyone, even the most avid hunters I know, keeping 5 freezers of deer. The electic bill must eat you alive.

[Don_G]

17. Yep

One Aunt and two Cousins on 835 acres. Each has two freezers for the veggies and the wood gophers to feed everyone and that's the way it's been since the mid '30's.

[corarose]

26. LOL

It means something else in Chicago.

[DS1]

3. heh, most people don't complain about having too many deer

I'm assuming you eat them afterwards..?

[Maddy McCall]

4. Where do you live?

I have 'em all over my property. I catch them with the Q beam but don't hunt and allow no hunting here.

Call it crazy, but they know I won't allow them to be hunted, so they hang around my 40 wooded acres. I walked out on my back porch the other day, and a mom with two fawns ran by, in no terrific hurry--she knows I am no threat to her.

I have a huge buck here. He has been here for 10 years. I wonder if the fawns are his.

Is it usual for fawns to be born in pairs? I didn't know does have twin babies.

I am not "anti-hunting" but just don't do it here. Lots of my friends do it to feed their families.

[Gogi]

5. Think you've got it bad?

I have predatory Jehovah's Witnesses bugging me! They come to my door and bang on it at 8:00 in the morning. I'm posting a no soliciting sign.

[Dookus]

6. what's

the bag limit on JH's?

[Don_G]

11. I Don't Believe Any State Has Set A Limit

Might be a good Photoshop project for the rest of us in need though.

[alwynsw]

21. It depends on the county here in KY.

Some limit to one buck, up to almost no limit on does in some areas.

Arizona (used to live there) has a limited draw, with a limit of one per year per hunter.

It varies from state to state.

I identify with the National Forest problem. Same problem here next to Ft. Knox. Overpopulation of the herd is a real problem.

[Demobrat]

7. I have never even seen a deer up close.

Can't imagine shooting one.

[Cleita]

9. Me either. I used to feed them carrots and pet them.

[Maddy McCall]

10. I'll see if I can get a pic sometime of one here and I'll post it...

I can't imagine killing one either. I don't have anything against hunters, but I don't do it and don't allow it here.

Some well-meaning relatives try and try to get me to allow them to take my son deer hunting. I considered it, and then checked out a video on deer hunting from Blockbuster. My kiddo watched it--it showed a little kid hunting with his grandfather. The kid kills a deer, and you can tell he is saddened by it and the grandfather smears blood of his "first kill" on his face.

My son was repulsed. He couldn't comprehend that the deer was DEAD. He didn't like it at all--he told me he would never hunt.

Maybe when he gets older he will go. I know people who force their kids to hunt, even when the kid doesn't want to. I couldn't ever do that to mine, though.

[Don_G]

14. I Prefer Tomatoes And Corn To Venison Myself

But if I feed them, then I'm going to harvest the crop.

Dirty low-life veggie stealing four-legged wood gophers!

[ForrestGump]

13. I would, but only if it fired first

[Cleita]

32. A few years back, I worked in a private campground

in the hill country in Texas. The campground covered a hundred acres. The woman I worked for wouldn't allow hunting on her land during deer season. In the fall we put deer corn blocks out all over the park to attract the deer throughout hunting season as a sort of sanctuary. As a bonus, the deer blocks also attracted a variety of beautiful, migrating birds. I guess some people enjoy nature and others like to destroy it.

[Don_G]

37. It Did

That or turnips are their version of tacos, pickled eggs and beer.

[mitchum]

19. A few weeks ago, I went to a friend's place...

to visit a deer which she had raised since it was a fawn. "Freckles" was leaving the next week for a protected preserve. I spent an hour petting and hand-feeding that beautiful animal. Before I left, my friend gave me several pounds of venison (a product of her husband's hunting the previous year) Earlier this evening, I ate the most delicious venison pot roast. Cognitive dissonance on my part, I guess.

[Maddy McCall]

12. No responses--he must be butchering right now.

[Don_G]

16. See #14

Still had to finish my cigarette too.

[alwynsw]

18. I'm jealous

All you damned old city folk have all the luck!

May I come over for dinner?

[Don_G]

22. I Suppose

Just be prepared to stuff yourself on venison, home canned green beans and fried green tomatoes.

I would offer tomato juice but it goes quick when the Polecats are surprised doing Polecat stuff.

[corarose]

20. YOU KILLED BAMBI?

:grr:

[alwynsw]

23. Bambi looks especially nice

in a skillet.

[Don_G]

24. I Killed A 4 Legged Wood Gopher

That was grazing in my Aunt's 5 acre garden.

The stuff planted in the field below wasn't enough for them.

[Demobrat]

25. Why can't you just scare them away

asks the city girl.

[alwynsw]

27. Deer get used to scare tactics

I watch 'em graze regularly next to the range on Ft. Knox when the tanks are firing their main guns.

Whitetail deer range like cottontail rabbits. They get used to things, and live literally in your back yard.

And yes, they can be VERY destructive to both food crops and ornamentals. Not to mention the occasional pet that pisses off a buck and dies because of it. I've a friend who was attacked by a buck in his own yard - over 200 stitches and several days in ICU.

[Don_G]

33. And Some Of The Hunters

Ever see a tyro stuff a Stag in the trunk of a brand new BMW?

I still wonder if he had to take a chain saw to the trunk after rigor mortice set in.

[Don_G]

30. Picture A Farm In The Middle Of Central Park

Surrounded by Canada. How are you going to scare every critter in the woods 24 hours a day, 7 days a week?

That's why tomato juice dosen't last too long...skunks have their own attitude until you stumble across one.

Then, they "air" their differences.

[corarose]

28. What if that Deer had a family?

AND HER KIDS ARE WAITING FOR HER TO FEED THEM!


:grr:

[Cleita]

29. Not in the fall.

But she could have been pregnant in her first month. Although I once did see a doe with a small fawn in the fall. I saw the same doe in the spring (you can tell them apart when you see the same herd and get used to them) without a young deer accompanying her that should have been the right age for the fawn, so I don't think it made it through the winter

[Don_G]

31. Deer And Stags Get Together In The Fall

And drop a Bambi or two in the spring.

Or did you think that a bunch of Rednecks got together and decide Hunting Season should coincide with Pro Football?

[alwynsw]

34. Yeah! That's it!

Get it outta the way during football season. Can't let it interfere with basketball!

[corarose]

35. I have a meats test and I need to practice on meat

Hmmmm!

My Chef made me take a bite of Bambi after I prepared it with a Blueberry Sauce and it wasn't half bad.

It made me feel kinda queasy but I tried it anyways.

It's like the Day I had to kill two Lobsters I did it and they tasted pretty damn good.

My Chef was proud of me that day.

[ewagner]

36. I've never been into hunting

but I understand the problems we're having with overpopulation of deer here in Wisconsin.

Driving back from Oshkosh last Thursday night, those critters were all over the place. I had to be extra vigilant to keep from hitting one and damaging the car (not to mention killing the deer!) Statistically, about 2000 deer are killed on Wisconsin highways each year. The over-population is NOT a good thing....

We also have a problem with chronic wasting disease in the deer population in the southern part of the state. That's a serious problem.

Like I said, I have never been into hunting and I have to say that I despise SOME hunters. Some who have the attitude that this is a legal way to kill something (characterized by the infamous "if it's brown it's down" mentality).......hunters who actually use the meat are okay by me

[Don_G]

38. I Really Don't Like To Kill Either

And I don't unless there's some benefit to it.