[Adder]

WTH?

LOL!

[Terry L Smith]

How many othet “blue San Franciscans” have emigrated to red states, without leaving their damnable politics behind them?

[Openurmind]

Lol, A man’s castle has no room for crybabies.

[riverrunner]

What BS.

[Elsie]

Gotta love it!

...prance to the fence...

[OKSooner]

Humberto is a cool guy, I’d like to meet him.

[Tudorfly]

Thanks.

[KarlInOhio]

"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!"

Only a used and very expensive copy is available on Amazon.

[Scarlett156]

And this is why we never have anything to do with our families.

[Pollard]

“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.”

My wife works third shift here in rural and has had several deer run into or in front of the vehicle. She's driving a little car now which scares me when I think about the size of an adult, horned buck.

[9YearLurker]

Freddie actually sounds like a very decent fella, underneath it all. He should be given some time, not pushed too hard, and he will come around.

[Born to Conserve]

Deer, a valuable resource, vanished from my area 300 years ago, came back 75 years ago, and are now seen as a plague — same with the trees.

— S.E. Pa.

[Charles Martel]

IIRC, the author is one of the lucky Cubans who successfully fled the Communist uprising there. I’ve read a book of his, titled “The Helldivers’ Rodeo”, about spearfishing in the Gulf of Mexico. His usual writings are more political in nature, he’s quite a gifted writer.

[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?

[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?”

[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.