Ha! I remember that!
If I'm not going to pony up the bucks to build a ten foot tall
deer fence, then I'm certainly not going to build a Godzilla pen.
Nor pay the bill for all of the fuel used by the fighter jets...
Posted on 08/14/2022 5:07:03 AM PDT by GaltAdonis
300 blackout subsonic with maximum grain slug fired from a weapon with a silencer. It is very quiet. Hornady makes a 190 grain subsonic in the 300 blackout. You can not go wrong with Hornady ammo.
Like any garden pest, anything you feed deer, even from your garden, grows more deer.
Bottle rockets. Randomly shoot 3-4 into the woods every day. Vary the time of day. You will probably find that the deer are bedding just inside the woods waiting for a chance at the veggies. The sound of the fireworks will scare them off and the smell of burnt powder will keep them away. I had tried the repellent, hot sauce spray, yelling and cursing. Nothing worked except the bottle rockets. They work for keeping the hawks away from my chickens too but I actually have to see the hawks in the area before firing a few into the air.
The freezer works.
Ha! I remember that!
If I'm not going to pony up the bucks to build a ten foot tall
deer fence, then I'm certainly not going to build a Godzilla pen.
Nor pay the bill for all of the fuel used by the fighter jets...
We have shot over 20 deer at one time in potato fields up in the UP of Michigan.
The farmers get permits. Invited friends out to fill those permits. We shot, and the rest of those high bred goats just stood there looking like what the hell is wrong with bambi?
Leveled a good many of that heard. The biggest yielded about 30 pounds of meat. Thats all.
I actually hate em.
Not really true.
The amount of feed is minor. Deer thrive with land, and food.
A bag of corn a couple of times isn’t going to increase the population one bit.
Poaching isn’t an option either. If caught, you’ll damn sorry and out thousands in fines.
So many people here cry out about Bill Gates buying up farmland and controlling our food supply, but endorse poaching or severely injuring a food supply.
Over some tomatoes………
😆😂🤣 Always!
Diana /Augie you both garden in your respective deer centrals; Besides your dogs and shooting them and eating them anything special that you do?
Hi.
I know someone has already said this, but get a giraffe.
I meant a dog.
Or two.
5.56mm
Look up Scarecrow Sprinklers. Available at Amazon.
Liquid fence concentrate, $100 a gallon, makes 12 gallons of spray. Some plants they will eat the buds or leaves off anyway.
I will be putting up some tall fencing in certain areas.
I have a deer tag when the season opens
Cross bow
Electric fence
That’s what I had around our garden where we lived before, about 5 feet high. The deer stayed out for years, then started jumping the fence one year. I took 10-foot lengths of 3/4” PVC, drilled the top 5 feet a foot apart, wired them to the steel posts, and ran nylon string through the PVC. Didn’t look great, but it kept the deer out. The string would chafe through in a year or two, but it was easy to replace. I hung streamers on the string the first year and didn’t bother after that.
I guarantee you deer eat tomato plants. Not just the tomatoes, but the whole plants. Ate mine almost to the ground one night caught on security camera.
Then buy as many cheap womens nylons as needed to surround your garden.
Cut the legs from the nylons, and stuff them with human hair. Tie off the open ends.
Use yard stakes to secure them to the outside of the garden, surrounding it.
Deer HATE the smell of human hair. I used this trick a number of years ago, before I was able to secure my garden from deer getting into it with a 7' fence.
Bingo! Beat me to it.
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