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I guess they don’t count the deer hit by stray gunfire.
WOW, this is really good news! It gives hope across the board that we may be able to retrieve some of Legacy America.
yeah, they are really difficult to tell apart...................
We used to hunt rabbits after school out along Army Trail Rd west of Gary when I was in grade school. I wish they’d open some of the DuPage Forest Preserves to a deer lottery.
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I guess you can’t say Mad Cow if it’s a deer.
:: I have heard that some pheasant hunters mistakenly harvested some deer. ::
That would be the Chicago definition of “mistakenly”.
First Deer Harvest that they officially know of.
I’ve seen plenty of deer, pheasants, and coyotes, on the west side of Chicago. Had a deer struck and killed by a car at Lake St. and Pulaski Rd. An old black man came up to a sergeant on the scene and asked for the carcass for the meat.
Where we live in Eastern PA, the only deer you can see are in the suburbs and city limits.
The Amish don’t care about licenses or seasons, and will harvest a deer anytime they see it. They have hunted the countryside clean
So you hunt either on suburban soccer fields (LOL-beware of Karen!) or you have to go deep into state game lands.
William Powers Recreation Area: that’s Wolf Lake, which is kind of a unique “urban” location: remains of an abandoned Nike missile base on it’s north shore;
a Standard Oil refinery (once the biggest in the world) across the lake on the Indiana side; a trailer park and single-family homes to the south; and residual marshes and prairie to the west, and the Indiana Tollway connection to the Chicago Skyway running right down the middle.
Interesting background. The Chicago area was a swamp originally referred to to by the American Indians as “chik-a-goo” which meant “stinky weeds”. That’s how it got its name. Some things never change.
There are more whitetail deer in the US today than when Boone and Crockett were alive.
Part of this is because of state wildlife management efforts but in the last quarter century, but small private game preserves all have become a booming cottage industry. A great many land owners have begun growing deer food plots, which draws the deer and habituates them to their land, then they sell to sportsmen the right to hunt on their land.
It’s a case of Mother Nature benefiting from entrepreneurship and the free market economy. I know land owners who clear enough from their hunting leases each year to pay their land taxes. And most of them are maxed out on hunters and have a waiting list.
When I was a kid deer here were so scarce I knew people who had deer hunted their entire lives and never bagged one. Now even Elmer Fudd can get a couple every season without much effort.