[FITZ]

That's what it sounds like. The deer figure out they won't be shot if they get to the farmland areas plus the food is better --- all that corn. But the farmers don't like hunters shooting their cows, horses, dogs, kids by mistake.

[nothingnew]

But the farmers don't like hunters shooting their cows, horses, dogs, kids by mistake.

I've never shot any of those, but I do have a good record for feral cats up in the NW corner of CT while upland bird hunting....oh yeah, sorry and a few wild dogs who were running deer....

FMCDH(BITS)

[ChefKeith]

It's really simple:

Bambi has the State Hunting Guide and a calender and knows when it open season and they stay where the "No Hunting" signs are posted for safety.

I see it all the time, they group up and have class for the younger of the herd.

[IrishCatholic]

You are right about farmers not wanting yahoos shooting everything in sight. Some absentee landlord type bought the neighboring farm. I came home one day and they had put up a permanent deer stand on telephone poles six feet from my upper pasture fence line pointed into my woods. I was hot under the collar when I went up there. The door was facing their property and the windows mine. They looked over my pasture into a section of black walnuts at the border to my lake(In Kansas that means 20 acres of water. It means a pond to some of you folks that have more of the stuff). They claimed they would only come on to my property to get wounded deer. The only way to wound them is to shoot them on my property. Well, I have a walking path through the woods that my family takes and I walk it on the way to another pasture. I had no trespassing signs on the fence the next day.
I still allow hunting on the property, just about everyone I know supplements their freezer with venison. But not the people who belong next door. Never allowed them on the property again.

[E. Pluribus Unum]

But the farmers don't like hunters shooting their cows, horses, dogs, kids by mistake.

Just like the city slicker don't like people marrying their sisters and cousins.

(This opinion offerred in the spirit of "One bogus stereotype deserves another.')