Deer on the highway

Hillbilly · Dec 8, 2001

This is a major problem in WVA,I hit 2 this week 4 days apart.I had just finished fixing my truck back and the same day I hit one again.We need a 2 month open season no limit , either ***.

Boondox · Dec 8, 2001

Amen, Hillbilly! How such a destructive animal can enjoy such great public relations is beyond me! I actively seek out hunters with doe permits to cull my herd.

Pete

www.GatewayToVermont.com

Bird · Dec 8, 2001

Wish we had a similar situation in our area. I probably see a deer 2 to 5 times a year. I don't really care to kill anything myself, but I do eat meat, and venison is as good as any. And if I go hunting or fishing, I couldn't care less about a "trophy"; only the meat I can eat. The only reason I haven't been a hunter now in nearly 40 years is that the meat would cost more than I can buy it for at the grocery store. But if the deer ever get as plentiful around here as you guys say they are in the northeast, I'll quit buying beef and buy ammunition./w3tcompact/icons/laugh.gif

DFB · Dec 8, 2001

That's because some people's perception of deer is only somethin' like this.

DFB

Thomas · Dec 8, 2001

Deer haven't been much of a problem this year do to the hard winter,but the bears on the other hand /w3tcompact/icons/crazy.gif
got to be extra careful when out and about mostly in a oaks..yikes.

Thomas..NH /w3tcompact/icons/wink.gif

Thomas · Dec 8, 2001

How true in what you wrote DFB.
One of many nature works of wonder.

Thomas..NH /w3tcompact/icons/wink.gif

Bird · Dec 8, 2001

Yeah, DFB, those little pink eyed white rabbits I used to raise were very cute and cuddly, too, but they were also mighty tasty fried./w3tcompact/icons/wink.gif

beenthere · Dec 8, 2001

Some states in the south, as I recall being told, have a long gun season, and the limit is something like one deer per day. The managers up north have a problem with a hunter getting more than one deer per season. Maybe they want the license money, and a lot of hunters buying the licenses. I believe the herd in Wisconsin is estimated to be around 1.7 million deer. The hunters, cars, etc take around 450k each year, so it leaves a healthy number to breed (more does than bucks) and if the doe only averages one fawn, there are 600k more.
We need: more 'yotes? more hunters? more cars? more deer killed? more deer killed per hunter? something!

BWa · Dec 8, 2001

Blame it on Disney's Bambi ,,,,,,, at least the PR

Bird · Dec 9, 2001

It's been so long since I did any hunting that I don't even know what the regulations are now. The last hunting license I bought included deer tags for 4 deer (3 of which had to be antlerless - doe permits, in other words), and it didn't make any difference whether you got them all in one day or on different days.

DFB · Dec 9, 2001

Bird, Its probably been 30 yrs now, but it seemed that most everyone around my hometown used to hunt for rabbit. Over at my cousin's place they had a beagle, his father would take him and I and "Mike" out hunting on Sat. mornings. Rabbit and polenta was the meal I remember.

DFB

duckboy · Dec 9, 2001

Deer are a real problem here on the Island. The hunting restrictions combined with the Disney attitude toward them will only produce more of them. The deer walk up onto my front porch to eat the flowers in planters. Don't want to put a deer fence around the house. I can see only one solution, and it will have unfortunate consequences. It will take a soccer Mom with her car filled with kids not knowing to take out the deer on the road, instead of the fir tree next to the road, or the oncoming car. It is just a matter of time. None of the politicians want to use deer killing as a platform in their campaigns, and the animal rights people seem to want to trade people for Bambi......you want deer meat for your freezer? Stop by....we'll walk out to the tractor shed and you can take your pick of deer....heck, I'll even use the 4 in 1 to haul it to the meat house for you!

Bird · Dec 9, 2001

DFB, I grew up hunting squirrels and rabbits; mostly cottontails, but also lots of jackrabbits and an occasional swamp rabbit. But I'd never eaten domestic rabbits until I started raising them a few years ago. In '72, while I was at Northwestern University, I noticed a packaged 3 lb. rabbit "imported from Poland" in the frozen food section of the supermarket and bought it. As many rabbits as there are in this country, I could hardly believe they would import them. Anyway, my wife fried it, I took one bite and we threw it in the garbage; don't know whether it had thawed and spoiled in shipment or what, but it tasted terrible.

And I don't recall even hearing of polenta before; had to look it up on the Internet to see what it was./w3tcompact/icons/smile.gif

DFB · Dec 9, 2001

We have the same problems here too.

http://outdoors.mainetoday.com/hunting/011121hunting.shtml

DFB

Rch · Dec 10, 2001

Deer= rats with hooves; a tree farmer's perspective !

RCH

Rch · Dec 10, 2001

Bird, Polenta is fried mush ala italian

RCH

Bird · Dec 10, 2001

Yep, Rch, that sounds like a good description of the recipes I read. I like all the Italian foods I've eaten, I guess, but don't often go into Italian restaurants 'cause I can't read the menu./w3tcompact/icons/wink.gif

DFB · Dec 10, 2001

To me ain't nuthin worse than the deer gettin' into the vegetable garden.

Munch on the zukes, cukes, and squash plants plus eat the peas, cauliflower, and broccolli too!

DFB

DFB · Dec 10, 2001

Bird, yea that's all it is, cooked cornmeal.

Talkin' bout different ethnic type foods makes me remember my dear old maternal grandma.
To her Italian was a hot sausage pizza and the only Chinese food she knew to order was was chicken chow mein./w3tcompact/icons/smile.gif /w3tcompact/icons/laugh.gif

But she could make a great toutiere. /w3tcompact/icons/wink.gif

Bird · Dec 10, 2001

There you go again, DFB; made me have to look up a recipe again on the Internet to see what toutiere was. Sounds good, too./w3tcompact/icons/laugh.gif