Hunting question (Tennessee)

[Citydude]

I have the same affliction your wife has concerning killing animals. Growing up in Wyoming, hunting was an expectation it seems the day you were old enough to buy a license. I was a lousy hunter because my heart wasn't in it. I quit hunting after wounding a young deer and having to see it struggle to live.

I'm not anti-hunting but I am an advocate of following the letter of the law concerning hunting. Every year there are numerous trespassing violations prosecuted in our state as well as poaching. A few years ago there was a person cleaning a deer carcass on the lawn of a best western here in our town. Most of the hunters do respect the law and the land they are hunting on however the ones who don't are usually no smarter than the things they kill.

 

[davesl708]

I can relate to your problem. I have a friend who hates hunters (while enjoying a ribeye).

I would consider the possibility the hunter may have shot the deer on public land and the deer crossed the line before dying.
The hunter may have trespassed to retrieve the deer.

As to the parking, maybe ask the sheriff or other LEO agency to patrol the area from time to time to discourage this.

Valium can help this time of year.

 

[KubotaToy]

I'm not anti-hunting but I am an advocate of following the letter of the law concerning hunting..... Most of the hunters do respect the law and the land they are hunting on however the ones who don't are usually no smarter than the things they kill.

I am a advocate of the law also but not just hunting law, I believe in all laws. I also do not throw rocks at others glass houses as I speed almost everyday driving to work and as a former officer of the law, gave many a ticket to "law abiding" citizens breaking the law. I do agree the demonstrated intelligence of some make you wonder where they fit in the evolutionary chain.

A topic for another thread but in many states you can go to jail for a longer sentence for poaching than for manslaughter.

 

[4570Man]

I am not anti hunting I enjoy bird hunting myself. After I said that there are a lot of people who don't have enough since to hunt. Even fewer people need to be bow hunting. A bow isn't something you pick up a week before deer season and be proficient with. I have 10 acres of rural land with a cabin on it. There are several people trespassing to hunt there. I have even found tree stands left there. If I lived their full time I would go through great trouble to ruin their hunting like shooting every morning, but since we don't live there it is not worth stirring up trouble. Currently they don't hurt anything. If we pissed them off who knows what they would do?

 

[Soundguy]

She goes ballistic when our cat brings a mouse home to kill.

This was all I needed to read. You are fighting a loosing battle....

 

[Soundguy]

I would consider the possibility the hunter may have shot the deer on public land and the deer crossed the line before dying.
The hunter may have trespassed to retrieve the deer.

Good point... I'd hate to shoot an animal and then NOT track it to make sure it died vs suffered.

 

[davesl708]

[/QUOTE] A topic for another thread but in many states you can go to jail for a longer sentence for poaching than for manslaughter.[/QUOTE]

Here in Kansas poaching can be serious business. They have made people buy game to replace what they killed. Some have lost their equipment, vehicles as well as paid fines and lost hunting license for years. Trespassing is the least of the concern.

 

[dusty3030]

This article explains the deer and really the situation to a T to share with your bride. Kind of lays it out how it is. People displaced large predators. People generally don't like to live with large predators (cougars and wolves) because they eat dogs and cats and livestock and what not as well as the wild game. In doing so people are kind of stuck with the responsibility of the predator role if we want to live out in the midst of nature.

A population crash stinks. A starved deer with a gut full of cedar needles is a bad thing to find dead. It means they ate everything they could and can find no more. It means the plant population has been decimated. Deer or any animals don't do so well when there are more of them than the land can sustain. You might say then we can feed them and that will solve it. Not so simple, as the more that are congregated even if well fed will then start to transfer diseases to one another and crash that way instead.

Fact Sheet 34: White-tailed Deer Biology and Management : Extension : Clemson University : South Carolina

 

[davesl708]

This article explains the deer and really the situation to a T to share with your bride. Kind of lays it out how it is. People displaced large predators. People generally don't like to live with large predators (cougars and wolves) because they eat dogs and cats and livestock and what not as well as the wild game. In doing so people are kind of stuck with the responsibility of the predator role if we want to live out in the midst of nature.

A population crash stinks. A starved deer with a gut full of cedar needles is a bad thing to find dead. It means they ate everything they could and can find no more. It means the plant population has been decimated. Deer or any animals don't do so well when there are more of them than the land can sustain. You might say then we can feed them and that will solve it. Not so simple, as the more that are congregated even if well fed will then start to transfer diseases to one another and crash that way instead.

Fact Sheet 34: White-tailed Deer Biology and Management : Extension : Clemson University : South Carolina

Well put. I have three neighbors that feed deer. Now we have over 20 hanging around destroying trees and gardens. I lost three Arborvitae trees and too many shrubs to count. Took a picture of 18 deer standing around my hot tub. How long before one goes through my large window?
Tried repellents and sound alarms to no avail.

 

[mx1alex]

Ask would she rather the baby deer get eaten alive by coyotes or the quick death of a well placed arrow? Mother nature can be very cruel and more often than no critters die a gruesome death in the wild.