[Cornpone]

Time to get a new gun. He needs a a 30-30.

[spodefly]

He could try a shotgun with slugs or buckshot.

There are a couple of places here in GA where I am not too comfortable hunting with my 7mmRemMag. So I'll opt for the Winchester model 94 (.44Mag w/ hollow points) or a Remington 11-48 12 guage shotgun with 00Buckshot.

[elmer fudd]

I've encountered this same problem. A couple years ago a friend and myself spent the season hunting an island that was absolutely teaming with deer. The problem was you almost never got a chance to shoot them because they were ussually standing in someones front yard. Eventually we both did get our deer, but we never chose to hunt there again.

[Timm]

Evidence that the bias is sometimes just pro-conflict, and not necessarily pro-liberal, even in a paper like the WP. The WP finds a place in their hearts for gun owners who want to tromp around in hiding and fire their weapons on, near, or toward other people's homes?

Would someone who wanted to open up a target range in this area get such nice treatment from the WP, do you think? Or even freakin' mountain bikers, riding on other people's property?

If deer get out of control, then local residents will have to decide what to do. In the meantime, it's just too bad that these hunters' recreation is curtailed by other people spending a fortune for property and a home (even a home that looks "zactly" like the others). Someone lives there. You're just going to have go get permission, or shoot somewhere else. Boo hoo.

[Capriole]

Yes, it's true, as the Post article complains--Loudoun County, Virginia, is absolutely infested with these creatures. You can't drive down the road without seeing one or more of them running along the side of the road or standing in the garden of a vulgar McMansion. They're breeding out of control and establishing their habitat in what was formerly beautiful open countryside. They are Yuppie Scum, and I certainly support shooting them. ;-)

More seriously: deer are a problem almost everywhere, but particularly in Loudoun County, which is the second fastest-growing county in the US. Many new Loudoun residents buy or build in what was until recently farmland or forest, and are then surprised that they have to deal with displaced wildlife and the other problems inherent in country living. In my county we have had some luck in dealing with yuppies, PETA types, and deer all at the same time by staging deer drives, in which professional hunters slaughter large numbers of deer which are then used to feed the poor. It's not a perfect solution but it's better than nothing.

[Ursus arctos horribilis]

Sometimes I forget how lucky we are to live within a couple hundred yards to several hundred thousand acres of wilderness area and multiple use public lands.

[taxesareforever]

My question is, why is he hunting, let alone packing that rifle if he is not going to shoot? Something fishy in hunting country with this story.

[Byron_the_Aussie]

..the plastic-tipped rifle bullet McKeever uses can keep goingafter it passes through a deer and travel up to a mile if he misses...

Sounds like a Glaser-like opportunity, for some clever ammunition or projectile maker.

[Conservative Infidel]

Time to buy a crossbow. Arrows almost never ricochet and you can always see where they went and they will never "travel up to one mile" after they ricochet.

[hellinahandcart]

ping

[crushelits]

[palmer]

untouched on the frozen ground next to him

The ground hasn't frozen here so far this year.

[P.O.E.]

Maybe starting a (sub) urban legend that deer meat is an aphrodisiac will drive up poaching?

[Ladysmith]

From the link to the original article: Lately, the talk among hunters at the 7-Eleven coffeepots has been about the explosive story out of Wisconsin, where a Hmong hunter who had been on someone else's deer stand on someone else's land shot and killed six hunters. They say the man was a criminal, not a hunter. They fear that the story will give hunters a black eye and embolden hunting opponents to push for more restrictions. But they acknowledge that some of the same pressure that drove Chai Vang to trespass on private property -- the loss of hunting ground to development -- is being felt in Loudoun in spades.

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[mad_as_he$$]

Crossbow.

[mad_as_he$$]

Crossbow.

[Dan from Michigan]

Sabots my man, sabots.

[crushelits]