Posted on 12/11/2004 8:56:54 PM PST by crushelits
Time to get a new gun. He needs a a 30-30.
He could try a shotgun with slugs or buckshot.
There are a couple of places here in GA where I am not too comfortable hunting with my 7mmRemMag. So I'll opt for the Winchester model 94 (.44Mag w/ hollow points) or a Remington 11-48 12 guage shotgun with 00Buckshot.
In some part of Maryland that's the only thing you can use. (slugs or buckshot).
I've encountered this same problem. A couple years ago a friend and myself spent the season hunting an island that was absolutely teaming with deer. The problem was you almost never got a chance to shoot them because they were ussually standing in someones front yard. Eventually we both did get our deer, but we never chose to hunt there again.
Would someone who wanted to open up a target range in this area get such nice treatment from the WP, do you think? Or even freakin' mountain bikers, riding on other people's property?
If deer get out of control, then local residents will have to decide what to do. In the meantime, it's just too bad that these hunters' recreation is curtailed by other people spending a fortune for property and a home (even a home that looks "zactly" like the others). Someone lives there. You're just going to have go get permission, or shoot somewhere else. Boo hoo.
More seriously: deer are a problem almost everywhere, but particularly in Loudoun County, which is the second fastest-growing county in the US. Many new Loudoun residents buy or build in what was until recently farmland or forest, and are then surprised that they have to deal with displaced wildlife and the other problems inherent in country living. In my county we have had some luck in dealing with yuppies, PETA types, and deer all at the same time by staging deer drives, in which professional hunters slaughter large numbers of deer which are then used to feed the poor. It's not a perfect solution but it's better than nothing.
Sometimes I forget how lucky we are to live within a couple hundred yards to several hundred thousand acres of wilderness area and multiple use public lands.
My question is, why is he hunting, let alone packing that rifle if he is not going to shoot? Something fishy in hunting country with this story.
Better yet, he needs a 12lb Mountain Howitzer, which this guy uses to hunt deer in Wisconsin. http://www.buckstix.com/howitzer.htm
Could you supply an example of where 'local residents' have managed overly large deer populations?
Sounds like a Glaser-like opportunity, for some clever ammunition or projectile maker.
I agree, something's fishy, why is he even there? Also, I'd never lay a scoped Browning on the ground.
Heck, I just shoot them in the yard. A bow works fine, and it doesn't alarm the neighbors. Killed my third deer of the season yesterday (although I used a shotgun on that one)....I have enought venison in my various freezers to last me a couple of years.
Time to buy a crossbow. Arrows almost never ricochet and you can always see where they went and they will never "travel up to one mile" after they ricochet.
Same here in Southern Michigan.
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