Do Gooders and the Deer population

[Haut Medoc]

Re: Do Gooders and the Deer population

Free deer abortions? I vote for Initiaitive 30'06.... ....JK

 

[Link]

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I’m an Animal Population Control Officer <br />NOT a Hunter

 

[rolmops]

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Oddjob,I am very proficient with the neck shot in the atlas approaching from the side outside the view range of the wounded deer,so they do not try to get up out of fear.Do I like it?no.Do I know how to slaughter an animal?you bet! Would I want to slaughter an animal with gangrene infection in its blood?no thank you.<br />The thing that really bugs me is the danger of their ticks spreading lyme disease in the neighborhoods.<br />I want to get rid of excess deer as much as anybody else,but I do not want to pit neighbor against neighbor,while trying to solve the problem.<br />Flyrod, sorry but I am not in the habit of running out with my camera so I can take pictures of fresh or not so fresh carcasses.

 

[AK_Chappy]

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Originally posted by SS Mayfloat:<br /> In southern Ohio there is some small bobcats, but no lions or bears at this time.

SS,<br />I grew up in OH. My GrandPappy, God Bless His Soul, lived in Ray, OH. I remember one night, my cousin and I wanted to sleep outside. My Mom put some blankets and pillows in the back of Uncle Ralph's pickup (it had a topper on it). In the morning, there were bear tracks in the driveway, about 15 feet from the truck. This was back in the late 70's early 80's.<br />I went to the OH DNR website and searched for "bear". I found this document about black bears in OH. There is a small, again I say small, breeding population there. I can say that for fact as my aunt hit a cub once. She thought the mama bear was gonna tear her car apart!!! Scared the crap outta her! Luckily her car was operable and she got away.<br /><br />AK Chappy

 

[Wimperdink]

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freezer them and ship them south. Stick them in refridgerated trucks and put a padlock on the doors... they will be emptied quick and everyone will be happy. Trucker wont have to do the work to unload.... looters will think they have looted... save some food money for relief efforts to boot. Lots cheaper to shoot, clean and quarter them than to catch and release.

 

[tomatolord]

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Here in Raleigh, NC they let the cars thin out the populations, <br /><br />We live near a 1,000 acre park that is loaded with them<br /><br />The carnage in the spring and fall is pretty high<br /><br />We live in a patch of the county that is surrounded by the city - so some neighbors put up tree stands and bow and arrow hunt the deer.<br /><br />Something has to kill them off, if prey does not do it then nature will wipe out with a disease of some kind.<br /><br />Although I never understood why they dont just net so that you could you kill them quickly.

 

[CJY]

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rolmops makes a good point. He does not want his family or pets injured. What is difficult to understand about that. Every year hunters are killed in the field where there are only other hunters. That is a risk that every hunter takes. You are suggesting we put hunters into residential areas with rifles. That is not a risk non-hunters should have to face. Sounds like a recipe for disaster. It does not matter who owns the property being hunted, city or whomever, if their are residential areas around. I really doubt those of you with children that play outside, or even inside for that matter would want several people walking around your homes with high powered rifles and a need to get an adrenaline rush or ego boost.

 

[Fly Rod]

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CJY<br />You have been reading to many comic books!!!! We are not talking about hunting in the Public Gardens in N.Y.City or Boston Common or Disney World!!!!! Most places that you hunt you have to be 500feet from a dwelling and most places you need permission from the land owner!!!! Do you think some one is going to hunt on your 10,000 sq. foot lot??? In Mass. it is shotguns only!!! Lets not get carried away with using riffles or 155 howitzers<br />Neither rolmops, you, nor I, own the deer, they belong to the state!!!!!<br />And if you had read one of the articles about statistics, hunting is one of the safest sports!!!

 

[CJY]

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Fly Rod,<br /><br />You said: "I agree with you 100% about not hunting in yourrrrrr garden if you do not wish people to do that!!! "BUT"!!!, a public garden or public property, does not just belong to you, it belongs to everybody to use depending on restrictions, if any!!!!"<br /><br />I happen to live next to "public property" that is in a residential area and NOT HUNTED. No, it is not mine, but hunters have no way of keeping their slugs from leaving "public property". How can you tell me for sure that those slugs will not enter "my, yes my property?" The problem I have is that you can't, nor can the hunters be sure of it. Simply put, hunt in areas where only the hunter(s) is at risk. If this is done, everyone can then be happy...right?<br /><br />Do you really think slugs, arrows, rifle bullets always go where they were intended to go? If any of these projectiles can be fired close enough to enter my property, THEN IT IS TOO CLOSE. The original post spoke of hunting in suburbs, you know, those places where people live. If it is close enough to hurt innocent people, it is too close regardless of the deer population.<br /><br />It may very well be a fact that hunting is safe, I won't argue that. My point was not that hunting is unsafe. My point, accidents happen, and shooting accidents are usually more than a scraped knee. If a hunter shoots another hunter accidentally, well, they knew the risk. When I am in my own backyard, being shot by a hunter is not a risk I have assumed. It is a risk I was forced into. I think though, that hunting is safe because it is not commonly done in an area unsafe for the general public. Put hunters in the "suburbs" and I think those statistics you speak of would change.