They are all fat right now. Those pics were taken in the spring, before they ate my garden.You need to fatten that one up. She doesn't look like she'd give much meat...
They are all fat right now. Those pics were taken in the spring, before they ate my garden.You need to fatten that one up. She doesn't look like she'd give much meat...
I have to be careful in my driveway!!The nearby town of 35K people just decided to thin the deer in town by 250. The normal is no more that 500.
We live out of town and evening driving can be hazardous. When we lived in the woods we had one that would come up and bump the window wanting to be fed. I kept a salt block up the hill a ways to maintain the emergency food supply..
What kind of rifle is that? what kind of can are you running?
Salted peanut butter on a cracker in winter or smear it on an apple in summer, either way will make them hang around to the point of being annoying.View attachment 100574
This one knocks on the door for snacks. I can sneak a pet once in a while.
I believe that there is an overpopulation of deer in many places, or there has been from what has been told to me. I know people who drive trucks who are careful about driving at night because of it.We are over populated right now, no one hunts enough in my area!
I wondered if the chronic wasting disease has reduced the population any? Wyoming and Northern Colorado, western S.D., Nebraska and Kansas seem to have been hit hard, but so has Wisconsin and pockets in other places.Several decades ago, I remember reading about New Jersey's Dear Deer Problem. In many counties there was no open season - because there were few spaces safe enough for a New-Jersey-ite to shoot a gun. Lots of car/deer collisions in those extensive suburbs though. Dunno how/if that problem got fixed.
I'm in the Catskill Mountains (lots of dear hunting) The jersey guys used to come up here in droves and at least one jerseyite would be killed each year (they'd shoot sound shots) back in the day you couldn't use your house phone because they tied up all the lines , couldn't even get into a restaurant or bar (packed with jersey hunters) . They would strap their dear to their car take them back and parade them around for a couple days then take them to the dump . They own a bunch of hunting camps here. I had some of them in the store wearing fancy club jackets (decent guys ) I had to laugh at some of them . I asked them if the got any dear ,they said we don't hunt , we come up here to get away from our wives . some of them are good guys , had to do some installations for some of them and invited to there cook out (Greeks barely could speak English ) If you ever want to have a good time go to a Greek cookout . Bench full of rifles , goat hanging from a tree (there was a Greek chef there) and if you don't drink with them they get offended. I barely made it home (Sambuca).Several decades ago, I remember reading about New Jersey's Dear Deer Problem. In many counties there was no open season - because there were few spaces safe enough for a New-Jersey-ite to shoot a gun. Lots of car/deer collisions in those extensive suburbs though. Dunno how/if that problem got fixed.
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