Home Forums Hunting & Shooting Hunter's Campfire 8 months of deer season just started here...

No license, day or night... many as a man wants.

Dogs are gonna love more fresh meat.

Hmmmmm?

Damage permit.

Killed 78 deer off 300 acres and they just kept coming. I gave up trying to kill all the deer. If you can't grow enough for the deer to eat you might as well get out, because you ain't going to make it.

Yepp... lotta places are just slam overrun with deer...

Dressing a pregnant doe can be an experience. Open her up and the young fawns run off……..

I tried to explain to a vegan how many deer get shot to protect the food they are eating. They still didn't believe it. Delusional idiots.

I know you're joking but orphaned fawns is why I've never done the nuisance hunts. Maybe I'd feel different if my livelihood depended on it.

I rather they be shot ethically vs starvation or disease.

After mid February ya just leave the sweet loins be and dress from the outside.

Or ya just kill them in bunches and bury them with a backhoe.

It isn't complicated... they are just deer.

We kill about 40 a year (group of us) on a 250 acre place out in Floyd during regular hunting season (100% legal with licenses).

Every year there are more. Been doing this for 20+ years. Nobody cares. Landowner is glad of it. The number of deer strikes on Route 8 is insane.

A few years ago I rode with my BIL to deliver fertilizer to a farmer in South Alabama and it looked like a good place to hunt. I asked him about their deer population and he kind of looked around to see if anyone was listening and said he had probably shot a thousand in the last 5 years and could probably stil! shoot 20 a day. I asked what he did with them and he said he drug them out of his fields and dumped them in the woods. Don't know if he was truthful or not.

I haven't seen 1 deer in my whole county since August before last. We had a massive die off. We used to me flush with them.

Want some wolves?😁😁😁

When we go down to Leesburg, VA the hillsides are just covered with deer. When you first see it you think it's livestock but when you look again it's just huge herds of deer.

Cash, 20 years ago they said there were 50 deer per square mile in Floyd, I can only assume its just gotten worse. I grew up in the copper hill side of Floyd. A buddy of mine grew up on Alum Ridge. We have been trying to thin the herds on my inlaws farm in Winchester and seems like killing them just creates a vacuum that brings in even more.

I know my cousins over in West Va, just use to buy Orchard Permits each year...

Cost was $2.00 and you could take up to 25 deer on one permit.... but they'd buy one a year... no one in the county were keeping score.. they didn't have to let anyone know that they shot any deer or how many...I'm sure the cost probably changed since those 1970s prices, but that is about it...

My cousins kids all grew up eating venison and pork.... beef tastes funny to them...even to this day....they'll eat chicken, but those came off the farm also....

Here in Oregon, I can shoot ONE deer a year.... was the same thing when I lived in Minnesota... Hunted in Jr High when my dad was stationed at Ft Bragg, we hunted on base.... then he was sent over to SE Asia and mom didn't want guns in the house, so they were sent to my grandparents place in WVa... when he died, we got them back... but mom allowed NO AMMO in the house...

My kid took one out with his truck grille last night.

Most of the farmers I know that use damage permits are dressing deer. They're putting them in a hole.

One year on my stepfathers farm[Floyd Co. line] we killed 27 dcap deer pre-season, 200 acres.

On the early MZ opener 2 of us saw over 30 deer before noon.

It's crazy how many are there are these days and no wonder we're starting to see ma nature do her thing[CWD]