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To: jstassis
I grew up on a farm in western Massachusetts and we had to keep all the animals in the "night pasture" during deer season. Our neighbor's pony was shot by a hunter who thought it was a deer. The pony was shot with buckshot, so the hunter was within 50 yards. It was only about a hundred feet from their house.

Our farm was posted and hunters still cut or knocked down fences to get on our property. One man was shot while chopping wood behind his barn. My mother wouldn't let us go into the woods during deer season, even to chase stray livestock.

Most of the problems were from city folks who came from out near Boston. They would drive all the way out to the Berkshires once a year to hunt. They didn't know where the houses were and couldn't tell a pony from whitetail.

92 posted on 12/06/2007 6:46:36 AM PST by mbynack (Retired USAF SMSgt)
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To: mbynack
Most of the problems were from city folks who came from out near Boston. They would drive all the way out to the Berkshires once a year to hunt. They didn't know where the houses were and couldn't tell a pony from whitetail.

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It wouldn't surprise me if that's our problem here. I was listening to WTKK a few years ago, and someone called in and mentioned our town as a great place to hunt. For a few years, we would hear multiple gunshots at daylight all during the season.

112 posted on 12/06/2007 6:54:21 AM PST by trisham (Zen is not easy. It takes effort to attain nothingness. And then what do you have? Bupkis.)
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