Serving Venison to an Anti-Hunter

Townhall.com ^ | December 11, 2021 | Humberto Fontova

[Kaslin]

“The overpopulation of deer in New Jersey is a well-known hazard that contributes to crop damage and car accidents, particularly during mating season,” reports the New York Times. “In 2019, between October and December, there were 4,753 collisions between cars and animals, primarily deer, in New Jersey, according to an analysis by AAA Northeast, the most recent data of such collisions available….In New York, where deer have also proliferated, the number of animal crashes in 2020 — 33,956 — included six fatalities.”

For some reason we never seem to have these “deer overpopulation” problems in Red States. Dixie states in particular. To wit:

I’d just hung the deer by its neck on the swingset for skinning and butchering when..... "Oh Hum-BERTO! Puh-LEAZE!"

I looked over and it was our new neighbor Freddie, wailing from his patio door, his face a mask of horror and disgust. "Humberto! How could you?! Why that’s awful!"

Freddie moved to south Louisiana recently from San Francisco. People didn’t skin deer in their backyards there. Freddie used to open his back door, prance to the fence, and discuss the screen and stage with fellow wine sniffers. Now he opens his back door and finds an assassinated deer dangling with its tongue hanging out, and some guy in blood-spattered camo slashing at it with a skinning knife between swigs from a sixteen-ounce Brewskie encased in a crumpled bag.

I looked over after a hearty swig. "How could?" I belched. "How could I? It’s easy, Fred." I wiped my bloody finger on my pants, held it aloft and curled it. "You do this," then made trigger-pulling motions. "See Fred? Bet even you could do it Freddie my boy. You’re good with your fingers aren’t ya? Aren’t...?"

"Oh! You... you...YOU!" —SLAM!

Good riddance. Then the door opens again and my wife, Shirley, storms out. "Haven’t I told you to do that SOME PLACE ELSE? My GOODNESS! Can’t you... OH WHY BOTHER!" —SLAM!

Shirley’s always having coffee with Freddie. They get along famously. He’s a designer of some kind, designs Mardi Gras floats in fact. Always happens that way: straight women and gay men get along.

But I was in no mood for sociological reflection. I was still giddy from the ego-buzz of a successful hunt.

Five hours later--sure enough-- there’s Freddie’s distinctive knock. I opened and he dangled a bottle of wine from hand. Freddie looked primed to rip into the braised backstrap (with Burgundy mushroom sauce) of the deer he denounced me for assassinating. Shirley had--naturally--invited him over for dinner.

"Monica!" Freddie called to my daughter upstairs. "Dinner’s served. Hurry before it gets cold." Monica was home from LSU for the holidays. They get along well. Freddie helped pick her prom dress, did her hair, suggested a restaurant—the whole bit.

"Like your meat warm, do ya Freddie?" I said while pouring a hefty glass from his Chateau- something or other. I quickly gulped a second glass then leaped from my chair towards the bookcase, just as Monica entered.

"OH NO!" She wailed while rolling her eyes ceiling-ward. "Not again, mom! He’s grabbing that STUPID book of his again!"

"Stupid book?" I wheeled around and shook the dog-eared copy of Jose Ortega y Gasset’s Meditations on Hunting. "A work of genius!" I yelled. "Ortega was the century’s most acute philosopher!"

"Yeah, right," Monica huffed. "My philosophy professor says he was a reactionary."

"Figures!" I howled while turning to Shirley. "See?! See what we’re paying for?"

"She won a scholarship," Shirley said in her best Alice Kramden. "Remember?"

"That’s not the point." Then I turned to my multi-earringed (but mercifully, still only with fake tattoos) daughter..."Tell me Monica. What philosophers are they teaching you about up there? Taylor Swift? Or Alec Baldwin?"

"Beyonce, actually" she said smugly. ‘We’re discussing her lyrics."

"Heaven help us!" I shrieked, then opened the book and read: "Man’s being consisted first of being a hunter." I looked up with a Jack Nicholson-type leer. "Hear that folks. That’s the man who wrote Revolt of the Masses—I don’t suppose they’ve assigned that for Philosophy class, huh, Monica?"

"No, Da-ad" she said with another eye-roll. "But in English they assigned Noam Chomsky’s…”

"Silence! Before I puke! Now back to Ortega: If we imagine our species to have disappeared in the Paleolithic era the word man would lack meaning. We would have to call him hunter."

Then I pointed a white-knuckle fist inches from Freddie’s face. "And you." Then I looked around the room with a lunatic leer, pointing. "And you... and you. You’re all killers! Every time you buy a hamburger you’re paying for the death of an animal, you’re putting a contract, a hit if you will, on a poor stupid cow. YES! It’s called the law of supply and demand—don’t suppose they’re teaching you anything about THAT up in college, huh, Monica?"

"No, Da-ad, but we learned about Che Guevara and...."

"Figures!" I snarled. "Anyway folks, I make my own hits, like Mikey Corleone. Greenie-Weenie Bill Maher and his gang were horrified to hear this on Politically Incorrect ... Remember Michael Corleone, Freddie? Remember when he whacked Sollazo and Police Chief McCluskey in that restaurant, huh? BLAM! I slammed the table with my fist. Right through the neck!"

"WHATCHIT, you CLOD!" Shirley screeched. "You’re spilling the—!"

"Ooops!"

"And watch the lamp behind you! And the coffee table! And the Christmas tree! And there goes the red wine all over the damn RUG!"

"Ooops! Here, I’ll get the towel, nothing to it. Well, same with this deer we’re eating, folks. Poor sucker was enjoying his meal just like McCluskey, contentedly munching away on acorns. He hears my whistle...looks up – BLAM!" I slammed my fist into my palm inches from Freddie’s nose. Right through his white throat patch. Never knew what hit him."

"Mom, tell Dad to shut up! Please!"

"We’re ALL killers!" I turned back to Freddie. "It’s encoded into your genes Freddie! Be true to your human heritage. Stalk the fields and forests!"

"HUMBERTO!" Shirley yelled as Freddie tried to leap to his feet. STOP IT! You’re...!"

"Yes! Freddie!" I seized him roughly by the shoulders. "I’m going tomorrow. Come with me and prey on deer and ducks!"

"Oh! OH! Shirley!" Freddie shook free and looked towards her for succor, nearing tears. "He’s IMPOSSIBLE! This man is so MEAN! He’s simply IMPOSSIBLE!"

"More wine!" I snarled while holding out my glass.

"Get it yourself!" Monica glowered. "Mom? Don’t! You’re not his slave!"

"You!" I pointed at Monica. "You stay outta this, before I backhand ya!"

"Aahh-Ahhh!" Monica went apes**t. "Mom, did you hear that? Heard Dad? Ms. Rabinowitz, my Sociology professor says I can sue you for abuse! Dad, you’re such a… a.. a…fascist!"

"Oh Monica, hush-up." Shirley said. "You know he’s never laid a hand on you. He’s just showing off in front of Freddie." Then she turned to me and yelled: "Humberto! You know Freddie doesn’t do those type of things! You apologize this minute! And after drinking all his wine. Now you apologize! I MEAN it!"

But Freddie had already run home in a teary huff.

[qaz123]

I’d just hung the deer by its neck on the swingset for skinning and butchering when

Who hangs their deer from the neck?

[Paal Gulli]

Deer in particular is one of those game animals whose survival is most dependent on herd management because of Chronic Wasting Disease. CWD linked to overpopulation and once it takes hold it will lay waste to a herd. The best way to prevent that happening is to keep the herd thinned to manageable levels, which is a service hunters not only provide free of charge, they pay license and game tag fees to the state for the privilege.

If somebody's got to kill a certain few for the betterment of the herd as a whole, why would you let the meat go to waste?

[qaz123]

Former co-worker of mine is from Iowa. Monster deer. Absolute monsters.

Apparently the food banks in Iowa never go empty. All the excess deer meat is donated.

You can get a deer tag. Fill it. Get another one. Fill it. And keep going. So many deer that they’re a nuisance as well as being monsters. He told me the insurance companies play a big role in how deer are harvested in the state. He’s a cop and said, at night, it would be nothing to see herds of them crossing the roads.

[qaz123]

you’ll make your money figuring out how to keep them from rolling onto the hood and through the windshield. That’s where all the hurt comes from.

On a side note, for such a docile and tame looking animal, they can straight up ruin a vehicle when they get hit.

[Kaslin]

I always enjoy reading Humberto Fontova.

[taxcontrol]

My old neighbor had a daughter that was a militant vegan.
She had a bumper sticker that read “Real friends to let their friends eat meat”. One day the daughter pulled up and it was the first time I was being introduced to her. She STARTED with “I am a vegan” as if it was the most important thing about her.

My reply was to look at her with a concerned expression, and said “You know that they have found a cure for that ... right?”

[Born to Conserve]

“They run through suburban neighborhoods like dogs.”

Dogs? You let a dog run through here, they wind up downtown in a wok.

[Leep]

I knew something didn’t sound right but couldn’t figure it out.
Thats it.
You hang it upside down and cut it’s throat. So,it bleads out.

[Georgia Girl 2]

😮

[SamAdams76]

Venison is an acquired taste but it's well worth acquiring and will be in plentiful supply for quite some time. I see those deer on the sides of the road every morning and evening as I'm commuting to and from work.

So far I haven't hit one but I've had some close calls.