Posted on 02/01/2018 6:15:24 AM PST by w1n1
Crop damage deer can be a big problem to many farmers, according to University of Florida IFAS document – Farmers reported that a variety of wildlife species were responsible for the crop damage they experienced during the past two years.
The majority of crop damage was attributed to these species: white-tailed deer (damage reported by 94% of farmers).
Farmers like Robert Runkles shared a video on Youtube, showing how he uses long-range firepower to mitigate this problem. Mr Runkles utilizes a .50 BMG to make this incredible shot from 902 yards.
When your livelihood is threatened farmers needs to do something. This farmer certainly has serious mad precision shooting skills, hats off to you! See the full footage of the 50 bmg deer shot here.
Just a way to show off your firepower. Deer has been eating crops since crops have been cultivated and always will.
If you are one of the 99% who have $50 in a Bitcoin wallet.. You don’t care.
Poor defenseless deer! People like that, and all hunters should have their guns confiscated. Don’t they know deer were here first?!!!!
(thoughts from the left side of my brain)
I always look forward to posts from ASJ, but this is disgusting.
Oh Deer ,Over Kill
Around here farmers complain about deer and then post all their land.
I live in rural America. Last year I watched a juvenile deer eat every one of the plants my wife had planted in our yard. One can defoliate acres in a day.
SOBs are nothing but glorified goats.
I have seen them completely destroy the new growth in a forest. And, I can give you all directions to areas where they have done that.
They dont allow hunting on their land? If not, in Michigan at least, they can lose their crop insurance. They have to allow a certain amount of people on their lands to hunt.
I have tried to convince some of them to open their lands up at a fee for hunters. These wont, and the crop insurance becomes a revenue boon to them.
In KS the land owner just requests depredation licences, up to 20 or 30 at a time . He can use them himself or give them out to friends. He just cant sell them. No need to .50 BMG the guys when you can just walk up 50 yrds from them. Remington -06, Hawken .54cal, and the Dan Wesson .357mag W/8” barrel are all viable candidates for take down. Depending on what mood Im in that day.
Be nice to your farmer friends.
Yup. It’s the same with geese
I have 30 acres rented to a farmer. When he plants soy beans the deer eat half. Corn, they eat a quarter. I have hunters on the land during the season but the damage is done before the season ever starts. Deer do a lot of damage. I can’t get fruit trees to get to three or four years if I don’t surround them with wire to keep the deer from destroying them. I planted a row of blackberries and they ate them to the ground. Many have no idea the damage done by an out of control deer and hog population.
Sometimes you get a shot of a deer on top of a yuge rolled bale of silage. They are mechanically wrapped in plastic but the deer jump on top, claw holes in the top for a meal, and then the holes lets in the moisture and rain, by spring its a $1000 bale of mold that no animal will eat.
I love venison dead and on my plate.
Not only a great shot but the venison was tenderized upon impact.
I live on just a 5 acre parcel, and depending where your from (I'm a former {Brentwood} Long Islander, New York 11717) that's a lot of land (I thought so at first) but when you start talking about 25 - 50 acres plus, now your talking a lot of up keep.
Near me are some great fishing spot's, and the garbage (big pieces of auto's, washing machine's etc.) that is thrown & left on the surrounding farmer's field's is SHOCKING. One farmer was growing Popular Trees, on a plot of land approx 30 acres, had to abandon his goal because the quantity of garbage thrown & left on the property, out in the proverbial middle of nowhere. Cleared the trees out, no more garbage.
He should’ve taken both of them....and then gone looking for the rest of the herd.
They’re nothing but overgrown pests.
You obviously don't farm for a living. I've seen what the mule deer population will typically do to a winter wheat field in N.W. Kansas.......Not just from devouring it but trampling down the freshly planted shoots.......
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