Ok, Pea brain, read this real slow, I grew up a 250 acre farm, I currently live on a farm. I know about deer and farming. And I have been a hunter all my life. I also know that the man who shot the deer is a fool.
I have never known deer to eat cotton, and posted a link to a game warden who said the same thing. Next the man shot forty deer. Take forty city slickers you sell them a three day permit for one deer each. Now look what the going rate is for a three day hunt. The man left several thousand dollars to rot in the field when all he had to do was sell permits at the end of the season to recuperate what ever fictitious loss he had. He probably would have made money.
When is deer season in your neck of the woods?
Around here, the only way you can shoot deer this time of year is with a nuisance tag. I don’t think you could get away with selling them.
I’m glad you never had problems with deer but around here they are a big problem. My brother thought the deer wouldn’t be a problem when he planted a small orchard a few years ago. The trees that weren’t eaten were pulled out of the ground. It was a complete loss.
You can call me names too, but I have seen the damage deer can do.
I have no idea how many deer are around my farm but last summer during the drought, The deer were draining two 100 gallon stock tanks every night. We had trouble keeping our own animals watered.