[riverrunner]

Right toddst the dnr is always complaining that we can not shot enough deer but they still strickly enforce nonsafety violations on deer hunters. If they want more deer shot they have to loosen the regulations.

[Redleg Duke]

In Californicatia, they have a thriving pig population. The limit is one...per day...all year long. Wild pork is delicious and the population doesn't seem to be hurt by this brutal hunting pressure.

Maybe we need to consider a year-round season for deer hunting. That would take the emphasis off of the annual "Red Army" in November (never guess I grew up in Wisconsin, would you?). I know that the Enviro-Nazi Bambi Lovers will cry that it will leave thousands of baby Bambis orphaned, but so does road kill.

The burgeoning population may have pushed us to seeing the deer herd as just short of varmint status.

[toddst]

If they want more deer shot they have to loosen the regulations.

10-4. Actually, a coalition of hunters and farmers can probably get restrictions reduced. The excess population problem will then quickly be dealt with.

[panaxanax]

"If they want more deer shot they have to loosen the regulations."

OR....they could do what the New York Dept. of Conservation did and release 5 mountain lions into a semi-populated area in order to control the rising deer populations. DUH.

Two days later a nearby farmer awoke to find nearly all his chickens, ducks and geese had been killed. Cat tracks were seen throughout his barnyard.

Within a week, a mare had been attacked during the night while defending her foal. Again, cat tracks were found and the nature of the wounds confirmed an attack from a large cat.

Even though local residents have videotaped Mountain Lions in their backyards, NYSDEC continues to deny any such release program! According to NYSDEC, there are no lions in NY, yet it is illegal to shoot them.

There should be a year round open season on the Whitetails until the herds are balanced.