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Deer stolen in PA: When a Big Buck Means Lots Of Dough, a Deer Is in Peril
Wall Street Journal ^ | Oct 4, 2003 | FASIH AHMED

Posted on 10/05/2003 5:57:49 AM PDT by The Raven

Edited on 04/22/2004 11:50:03 PM PDT by Jim Robinson. [history]

In 1997, he paid $900 for a five-day-old male whitetail for his breeding farm here. "He was just a lil' wee thing," Mr. Miller recalls.

Six years later, the animal could be worth millions of dollars, which explains why it's at the center of a criminal investigation and a nasty court fight, and why it has the world of deer farming abuzz.


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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Front Page News; News/Current Events; US: Pennsylvania
KEYWORDS: bang; hunting
A soft Sunday post
1 posted on 10/05/2003 5:57:49 AM PDT by The Raven
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2 posted on 10/05/2003 5:58:51 AM PDT by Support Free Republic (Your support keeps Free Republic going strong!)
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To: The Raven; wardaddy
Who knew?
3 posted on 10/05/2003 6:01:50 AM PDT by Chancellor Palpatine (New EIB motto - What Would Marion Barry Do?)
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To: The Raven
bump for later
4 posted on 10/05/2003 6:07:18 AM PDT by Fzob (Why does this tag line keep showing up?)
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To: The Raven
Intresting. I'll alert Mr. Ditter.
5 posted on 10/05/2003 6:09:31 AM PDT by Ditter
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To: The Raven
375 lbs?? That is a monster buck!
The largest I have taken was 215, here in ga.
Just not into deer farming if it's not for fair chase.
Improving the herd, ok but breeding for the type of situation they talk about is sh*t.
6 posted on 10/05/2003 6:09:34 AM PDT by tet68 (multiculturalism is an ideological academic fantasy maintained in obvious bad faith. M. Thompson)
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To: Chancellor Palpatine
bump
7 posted on 10/05/2003 6:16:44 AM PDT by RippleFire
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To: tet68
Hunting on private preserves are for those who cannot hunt fairly and don't wnt to put in the time or effort to find a big buck the real way. I myself have never shot a truly huge buck other than a 200 pounder in Missouri, but it was just a 7-pointer and I have seen 1 or 2 other big bucks fleetingly. I generally hunt for meat, which means I shoot a doe or 2 every year rather than a buck, plus the club I hunt on is in a QDM county.
Practicing QDM is the best way to go if you want good bucks to hunt, letting a buck get to his 3rd or 4th year not only makes the racks bigger, but it makes the chase fairer due to the fact that the bucks get "wood-wise" by the time their racks are impressive enough to qualify them as a "shooter".
8 posted on 10/05/2003 6:17:53 AM PDT by Gringo1 (Some days you are the pidgeon....and other days the statue.)
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To: The Raven
Why are people breeding these things on purpose in PA? There are far too many of them here already.
9 posted on 10/05/2003 6:19:04 AM PDT by Snowy (Women complain about PMS, but I think of it as the only time of the month that I can be myself.)
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To: The Raven
52-points and 375 lbs... yow!

but finding a buck in the wild with antlers worth mounting can take forever.

I would be more proud to mount a small eight-point that I took from skill and perseverance than a fenced monster regardless of the acreage. It's the hunt, not the rack.
10 posted on 10/05/2003 6:23:17 AM PDT by kenth (This is not your father's tagline.)
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To: The Raven
Wouldn't a big buck mean lots of doe?
11 posted on 10/05/2003 6:24:40 AM PDT by Libloather (No son of mine eats pigeons with transient train hoppers...)
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To: Gringo1
This is what QDM can get you


12 posted on 10/05/2003 6:29:01 AM PDT by Fzob (Why does this tag line keep showing up?)
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To: Fzob
I'll take the 7 point or 5 point Elk I had in my yard eating apples last night anytime over a deer. (The deer that was in the yard with them looked like a large dog in comparison.)
13 posted on 10/05/2003 6:52:29 AM PDT by 11B3 (Old enough to remember the real America, young enough to fight to bring it back.)
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To: kenth
I would be more proud to mount a small eight-point that I took from skill and perseverance than a fenced monster regardless of the acreage. It's the hunt, not the rack

That's exactly what I wanted to say but couldn't quite find the words for. Thanks for doing it for me!

Too bad the point is lost on a lot of these so-called "hunters" who are only interested in nice-looking tchotkes for their walls.

LQ

14 posted on 10/05/2003 7:38:08 AM PDT by LizardQueen
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To: Snowy
I wish some of the expert hunters out there would come to Alabama and kill off some of these pests. Evidently our local hunters are more interested in drinking Jack Daniels than they are in killing off a deer population that is too large. We have about 1,600,000 of them and you have to be really careful at night to keep from hitting them with your car. I have hit several in the last few years. If I was in charge of the conservation department I would give out of state hunters a free license to help get rid of them. They are pretty but to me they are totally worthless and are nothing but trouble.
15 posted on 10/05/2003 7:56:41 AM PDT by Quigley
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To: The Raven
On July 29, four local deer farmers embarked on a cross-country sperm-shopping trip.

I really didn't need to read that.

16 posted on 10/05/2003 8:26:25 AM PDT by Imal (I set my browser to "Maximum Sarcasm", then broke off the knob.)
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To: 11B3; All
speaking of things on all fours, tonight VH1 has 'Surviving Ted Nugent' a hunting reality show. Looks pretty good...
17 posted on 10/05/2003 8:35:40 AM PDT by cyborg (X-tra strength industrial grade tinfoil hat for maximum zottage)
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To: Chancellor Palpatine
I'm all for buck management but fenced hunting is not my cup of tea.
18 posted on 10/05/2003 11:57:55 AM PDT by wardaddy (The Lizard King it was.....)
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