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]

Need any help? Have gun-will travel.

Cash;
Good morning to you my cyber friend, I trust the start of the day has been going well enough to be promising and you're all well.

Thanks for the thread, it's educational for someone such as myself to read for certain and one of the main reasons I keep pulling up a log to this ether net 'Fire.

When I started coming on here there was a chap who was I believe it's called a "crop sniper" in Tennessee who shot hundreds of deer from soybean fields. He supplied some videos and stills which were eye opening for me to say the least.

While we might see herds of 40 plus whitetail deer in winter at night back on the prairies, the numbers that this chap from Tennessee and you talk about are tough for me to wrap my head around.

For context Cash and I'd have to check the field notes I keep every hunting season, but in 3 months of hunting I'm fairly confident we didn't see a dozen whitetails this year and I never laid eyes on a whitetail buck.

Please understand I'm not complaining in any way about that, it is what it has become and since it used to be a bit better, it's possible it'll be again - but - we'll never see the numbers you folks have.

Our limiting factor here in the mountains is winter range, to some degree predators as well, but there just is not and never will be enough winter forage for large populations of deer.

Thanks for the education this morning and all the best as we head towards a weekend.

Dwayne

Yep. People around here were pissed when one farmer said he killed over 300 on a nuisance permit.

Anyway, Cash, have fun! Should be interesting to test the cartridges you're tinkering with.

Clearly you guys need some cougars. We do not have a deer problem here.

The deer don't venture anywhere near the bars after dark.

FWIW, during my short stay in AL, the legal limit in my county was a buck and a doe per day. That was for, I believe, a 120 day season.

I used to shoot on a couple of farms in South Georgia. I haven’t done it in many years but I’ve shot way over a thousand deer. At first I’d shoot them like I would hunting for meat. Back then you couldn’t legally do anything with the deer except pull them out of the field. At the suggestion of one of the farmers I started to just gut shoot them. They’d run out of the field back into the swamp. Kind of harsh but as far as the farmers were concerned the deer were just big rats. Every time a deer popped it’s head up in the field they were chewing a mouthful of cash.

Sure wish I was close to an impending slaughter like that. I'd sure like some of that organic free range red meat. Just tell me where it fell, I'll take care of the rest.

We have plenty of Cougers... but I am happily married.

Cougars are for the younger crowd.

Winters are a non-issue here most of the time Mr. Dwayne.

Occasionally we had a hard one in the mountains and deer are relegated to eating Mountain Laurel (Kalmia latifolia)... taints the meat pretty bad IMHO... I reckon like sage for Western folks. i.e. I have never eaten a Speed Goat, but have heard tales.

In Virginia lots of folks use food plots and try to manage DNA for big racks. I am not much on worrying about racks. Big plump doe or some Sika is always my preference. Come August we will be looking for the "milk lips".

This was a huge (200+) WT from a year or so back... huge body, tiny rack (Regular fall season) in Floyd... Cull I would call him. Too much food most years.



We do have a monster on our place here on the Chesapeake Bay that I leave be... He takes refuge on our place (back-a-lane kinda thing)... Throwing good DNA I reckon... and the dogs love to jump him some. Give me joy. He can swim like a SOB.

Parts of Virginia have so many deer, there is no limit in some counties during the season. It's nothing for me to go ourside in the morning just belfore light and find a dozen of them in my yard.

I still own a horse farm near Americus (Sumter County). No damage stamps available (only 10 ares), but a huge deer population... I am sure there are Kill Permits open in the area. Georgia is thick with deer.

IIRC, Georgia was about the same 20 years ago... small deer down South, but thick as fleas.

Rounding to the nearest dozen for a season was very common practice back then.

While I can understand the problem and some of the related headaches, I'd like to find someone near here with that problem that'd like help to fix it.