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Deer
Sam06
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I have never seen so many deer around my place in the last 10 years. There are deer everywhere. I have between 7-12 in my yard every day. Most are doe's with fawns but there are a few small bucks mixed in.
It is like a deer explosion. There are dead deer along the road all over. I used to feed them but not anymore. My wife puts old bread out and chips maybe once a week and it is eaten right away.
They need to be thinned out but I don't think enough are getting run over, I might need to get a permit and shoot a few.
RLTW
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"There are dead deer along the road all over. I used to feed them but not anymore."
Why would you feed dead deer? Don
There's an ammo shortage and they're taking advantage of it.
And fiery auto crashes
Some will die in hot pursuit
While sifting through my ashes
Some will fall in love with life
And drink it from a fountain
That is pouring like an avalanche
Coming down the mountain
We have a real shortage here in the NC mountains. I usually see a couple of mommies with fawns per day at this time of year.
This year, I have seen two does in the past 4 months, no bucks and no fawns. Makes me wonder if some disease has wiped out the whitetail population.
Judy and I had to stop in our driveway coming home from the high school skeet team banquet a couple of hours ago to watch momma and her fawn ambling around the yard. Now there is a doe vacuuming up the walnut leaves knocked down by last nights winds. I never knew that they were that fond of walnut leaves but she is doing a pretty thorough job. We haven't seen the turkeys and their chicks in a couple of days - I hope the yotes didn't get them. As I type this the Orioles are squabbling over the jelly in the window feeder. They are taking beaks full with them to feed their chicks. I hope I can find a Welches jelly sale because it looks like it might be a record year for Oriole feeding. Did I ever mention how much I like living in a rural area? Bob
allen, when I was a kid growing up in the area where you live,there were no deer.Our hillbilly ancestors killed them for survival food.There were a few deer around Biltmore when it was a dairy but deer were very scarce in the mountains.I would have thought they would have made a come back around Asheville being the new weirdo residents would never shoot an animal.
As I was driving the back road this afternoon to sit my grandsons, I came upon a newborn, still partially wet fawn in the road. It was very wobbly and disoriented - mom nowhere in sight. I was able to help it off the road and into the woods - didn't see a smashed body when I returned home, so I guess there's a good chance it made it. Karma says I'll probably meet it with the front end of my GMC after it's grown up big. No pictures - traffic was backed up with rubberneckers, as it was.
No shortage in the MidWest. I counted 68 on our north farm while checking fences and water tanks in February. Most any trip beyond the yard includes a deer sighting.
You are right, buddy. The new arrivals in the Asheville area won't shoot a deer. And they have made a big comeback. A year ago I was seeing a dozen deer a day, at this time of year I saw lots of fawns. Something is wrong this year.
Down in the Biltmore Forest neighborhood where the rich folks live, s. side of Asheville, they were having lots of deer/car wrecks. About 15 years ago they hired an outfit out of New Hampshire named White Buffalo to cull the herd. They couldn't find a local hillbilly to shoot some does and fawns?
At any rate they paid a lot of money for White Buffalo, and the day before the hunt was to begin, one of the residents got her husband to file a lawsuit. Her husband, a lawyer, she got her legal help for free. He got an injunction and put the hunt off for a year. So they had even more deer killed by cars that year.
The next year, she got another injunction and halted the cull for a second year, and I don't know what has happened since then.
Obviously the wrong people/person are/is hitting the deer.
They eat less.
who hunts when you can play vidio games