“Just let humans harvest more deer.”
That’s where I am at.
Screw the King, let the People eat.
Here in Michigan, we have very liberal deer hunting laws. From does, to bucks, to bows, to rifles, to black powder, it's almost endless.
Here in Alabama, each hunter can harvest 3 deer, no license needed on private property or private leases and no license for residents 65 and older including fishing license. We have a ton of public TVA land for hunters. Still lots of deer in the state.
less hunters
period
NRA - TALK UP HUNTING
I was raised in my early years in the Rocky Mountains and saw deer all the time. Then in 1956, dad moved us to the Ozarks where I never saw a deer till 1970. All those hillbillies shot them on sight no matter what time of the year.
With better enforcement I saw an increase in deer by 1977, now they are everywhere as people are too lazy to shoot and butcher them. My game cameras show deer all around anymore. I have a man who hunts my property and has taken quite a few legal ones.
In Arkansas and Oklahoma the limit is six deer of which two must be bucks.
I am an NRA member since I was a kid, and know Hunters are the salt of the Earth. That said, the deer in my backyard just decided they liked me, and became tame, and I have gotten to know them, and it is astonishing how human they are. You can communicate with them, they will mime thoughts and requests to you. And some are astonishingly smart and even noble and self-sacrificing, especially mothers for fawns. Have had a daughter who wanted to eat with mom, who was standing next to me, motion with her nose for me to go in the house, pushing her nose at me, and throwing it at the door on my house. I have seen a mother, hearing a jogger run by where another mother’s baby was, run out into the road, and challenge the jogger to chase her, to guide the jogger away from the baby. I even cut up apples for them sometimes, and I have had a few actually push their nose against mine in appreciation. And you watch the families interact, and it is just like humans.
Here, a mother kisses me to thank me, and then has to settle a dispute between children from this year, and one from last year:
https://rumble.com/v6zx0wm-deer-are-more-human-than-you-think.html
It is just weird now to think of them hunted. It is very much like someone telling me they hunt the poorer Chinese people in the city, because they are too overpopulated. I am thinking, “I know those people, they are nice people. But the people setting up stands by the subway exits and strapping the Chinese guys to the roofs of their cars just have no idea.