They are delicious. There is a bunch of them and a lot of hungry people.
They re-introduced the Gray Wolf in the Adirondack. Not shockingly, they multiplied and have been spreading South. Why? Because there are lots of deer to eat.
Eat them? Yes, but look out for what is eating them.
We are overrun with them in North Idaho around Coeur d’Alene. The town of Dalton Gardens north of CdA has a huge brouhaha going on about the deer. Half the people want the herd culled and managed and think the best way to do that is bow hunting. Half the people say “NO WAY!” you cannot hurt pretty little Bambi and her fawns. The town is peppered with “No hunting in Dalton Gardens” signs.
We live in rural MO Ozarks and my wife works third shift. I bought an F150 that had been crashed in the right front. I banged out the fender pretty close to it's original shape. Two weeks later, a deer ran into the front right. I banged out the fender again. A month later a deer ran into the front right again. She ended up sliding in the snow and hitting a tree so we took it off the road and got a Chevy truck. Two weeks later, a deer slammed into the right front corner. We now have a Ford Focus and right after we got it, I grabbed a pair of noise makers that are supposed to alert a deer. Within a month, a deer slammed into the driver's door. When I worked in Springfield, a deer totaled an F150 work truck of theirs. A month later, one totaled a co-worker's Caddy. Yeah, we have some deer out here.
Deer. It’s what’s for dinner.
I used too harvest 7 deer a year which was to max allowed in Oklahoma for archery, muzzle loading, and gun seasons. We had several freezers to keep the meat as I also hunted elk and pronghorn. We never ate beef. My wife liked to prepare the meat.
She passed away a couple years ago and not being much of a cook I quit hunting for meat. Mostly eat TV dinners.
My college town allows bow-hunting for deer on city-owned properties. My backyard butts up to one of them. I have a ladder stand a hundred feet from my back door. I have a freezer full of venison I took from it. Pretty cool.
After more than 20 years in my suburban NJ location, we had our first deer ever on our street early one recent morning. The closest area I know of where there are enough woods is several miles away and would have required first passing through many neighborhoods to get to ours.
Lots of black tail deer around our place, south Puget Sound boonies. Three bucks in velvet were feeding near the house yesterday. It’s a tough area to hunt them in the fall being so brushy.
SHTF and they are gone in two weeks.
“As Mr. Brooks says, “The U.S. is the only nation I know of where you can’t serve wild game.””
The US allows the serving of wild game.
Sister in law lives in N.W. New Jersey.
Every night she has too many deer and bear most nights yet she can not take one for nutrition.
NOt in Jersey even though there are too many.
They are every where there.
A deer jumping eleven feet? Now that I'd like to see.
Any deer that can jump that high are welcome to snack on my day lilies and Rhododendrons.
As opposed to tamed or domesticated deer?
*wild deer* is more than a bit redundant.
The neighborhood Karens here in Montgomery county Maryland feed the local deer. Corn, other grain, and they supplement their diet with my figs (shoots, leaves), pomegranate, tomato plants, peppers (not the Habaneros), and pretty much everything around.
I have counted over 20 deer in a single herd in the 16 acres of county watershed parkland behind my house, often 2 or 3 less during bow season as I harvest what I can.
As I get older it’s harder to climb trees or haul 100+ lb carcasses out of the woods. A single large doe can yield over 60 lbs of meat - Knott’s butcher up in Mt. Airy does wonders with beef tallow making burger and the market in Highland makes the best breakfast sausage.
Same neighbors feel the effing feral cats - even the local chinese restaurants won’t take ‘em off my hands so I leave ‘em for the vultures - which won’t eat them for some reason.
Tending a herd in TN on my retirement property, depredation permits, locals hunt the property for me until I get down there. Have a couple spots sited for feed stations, feed plots I’ve been seeding in a pasture. Sure they’ll be eating my apples, figs, etc., I’ll be responding in kind.
But talk to the locals here in MD about hunting and eating the deer and you get the stinkeye pronto.
The obvious answer is obvious.
We obviously need to start up a government re-education encampment where deer can be re-trained and thought corrected to fill the role of currently endangered species.
That way, we eliminate deer overpopulation and can remove some species from the endangered list.
Semper Smart!
Minnesota Twin Cities has a real deer problem made worse by a hunting season that’s too short. 1.5 weeks. Collisions, property damage, habitat damage. The wokesters in Minnecraponus are of course anti hunting.
Yes, we need to reform that law. I’ve eaten wild game including venison at restaurants in Europe. It was tasty.
They’ve become so numerous they are a pest. They are also tasty. The solution is staring us in the face.