I’d like to buy that guy a beer. Deer are just rats with hooves.
One less deer to cause $2K damage to someones car.
Bumping off Bambi bothers people, but they will eat Elsie. So it goes.
A few years ago a hunting buddy of mine was living out on the edge of town, near town, but not in town. In a covenant controlled community, a homeowners association. A bear was coming around getting in trash and stuff. My hunting buddy and others had young children and was doing everything they could to discourage this bear, which was getting more and more “friendly.”
One early morning, my hunting buddy had enough, and BAM, shot the bear. It turns out, one of the liberal neighbors had been feeding the bear which was making it more and more “friendly” and making it come around more and more. The liberal neighbor was also sitting out in the mornings watching the bear while feeding. The liberal neighbor was very surprised that morning while drinking her coffee and watching the bear, when, BAM, she saw it get shot by my hunting buddy. The liberal neighbor charged my hunting buddy for mental anguish - she lost.
This is still very funny to me.
What these residential idiots don’t know is when there are too many deer in a residential area due to these idiots feeding them, the city management will often quietly call in specialist hunters who, after dark, will use either bows and arrows, or silenced subsonic firearms to quietly kill and remove the deer herd.
Next morning no one knows anything about it, and wonder where all the deer have gone.
They say this like it’s a bad thing.
Very common where I live
Neighborhood deer often have trophy racks
They are unhunted
They are so tame though it’s not for me
I e got ten acres
We shoot a doe for the freezer out the barn window every now and then
My closest neighbor feeds them
She calls my wife...her pal.... crying
It’s a prickly deal
Btw
When I lived in posh forest hills Nashville
Median income. 155,000
Median home value 950,000
I mercy shot two does and one buck and two dogs in 9 years after all had been hit by cars in our very hilly terrain
One time soccer moms sobbed and bean folk took the buck
Another a cop had me do it cause he was forbidden to
One of the dogs was a neighbor and they asked me too after Christy their lab of 12 years got hit on Tyne blvd
That hurt me too actually
In Dixie people usually understand it’s the proper thing to do
I’ve mercy shot many animals in my life
Past twenty years with a Jaeger 54 muzzleloader I keep primed....very effective and fast death like instant
535 grain minie lead bullet
Or my Russian .44 smith antique.....goex black powder cartridges
220 grain...also effective
Deer sadly know when you are the executioner
Dogs don’t oddly
My only question-is it legal to bow hunt in that area? If so, everyone can go fly a kite. if not, he was wrong to shoot it there. Call the GW ad let them figure it out.
Realistic range with a bow is less than 50 yards, so a stray shot hitting the wrong target is highly unlikely, unless the arrow deflects off a branch.
My biggest complaint as a bowhunter is that archers need to stay the same distance from dwellings that shotgunners do, which in Massachusetts is 500 feet. That means if you can see a building through the trees, you’re already too close.
However, the deer have learned that the safest place for them to sleep away the day is in residential woods. You can walk out to your trash barrels every day without incident, but walk past the barrels and into the woods just a few yards and watch what happens!
I can see keeping shotguns at least 500 feet away from houses, but archers need to get into those little patches of woods if we ever hope to control the venison supply.
Hunter Ambushes...
That’s how deer are usually hunted, crybabies.