They’re Here…
Every year about this time about 300,000 folks with guns descend on West Virginia. Yeah, it IS an invasion, but it is a GOOD kind of invasion.
The West Virginia traditional buck firearms season begins on Monday, and deer hunters should enjoy a good season, said Curtis I. Taylor, chief of the Wildlife Resources Section of the Division of Natural Resources.
“Mast conditions are not as good this year as last year, and deer will be more concentrated around specific food sources,” Taylor said in a news release. “In addition, there should be more mature bucks available to hunters this year because of the lower harvest and abundant food conditions in 2010.”
Three bucks already taken from my back yard during bow season.
Averaging 10 to 20 total deer on any given night.
Category: Geezer Alert!
I am not against hunting deer. My problem is that I have developed a relationship with the deer. On multiple occasions, without ever having fed them a single kernel of corn or an apple, I have had them walk right up to me and say hello. So, when it comes to hunting them, I can’t do it. On the other hand, if I were very hungry, it’s nice to know that my next meal doesn’t have to be hunted: It will just surrender itself!
AC #1: I’m much the same. I haven’t hunted in decades.
If and/or when the time comes I’ll likely do a piss-poor job of cleaning bambi, but I will eat.
I’m not aganst hunting, but on the day I need a tail light assembly on my truck and the service departments and parts departments of the two Chevy dealers in the area are all out hunting….well, I’ve got a problem with that.
I’m just waiting for the inevitable story of some dipshit city dweller who “forgot” to field dress his kill before strapping it to the hood of his Prius (or in Jonn’s case, Kia) before heading back to the big city.
Yeah, we get the Massholes up here, if you couldn’t already tell.
Best Christmas lights ever:
I haven’t hunted in many years, but not because I can’t shoot bambi, but for other reasons. I have looked at the possibility of getting back into it, but haven’t had the time over the last few years. It’s not that I don’t have the weaponry, either, as some here can attest to, but the availability of hunting areas as well (most people hunt on private land, I won’t hunt on public land, but that’s part of the other story for another day), since I know people in both rifle areas and shotgun areas and I’m on the waiting list for a spot to open up.
Even though some deer are rather tame, I know that up here, if the population isn’t managed, then you will have a lot of deer suffering from starvation and that ain’t a good thought, especially when it gets a little cool around here come January. Plus, the amount of deer hit by vehicles will go up and that puts both humans and deer in danger.
Joh Lilyea @ #3. It would not have made any difference if they were there or not. With all the deer – car collisions, the light assembly would have been out of stock and back-ordered.
The last deer I got was like Ron White did:
I was going 55 with my horn blaring and high beams on…
I am pretty sure I can get one in my back yard with a hatchet on any given day, for that matter I can get a turkey also.