Rough times for whitetails?

[Dftodd]

fortunately missed two already this week with the new car, both close calls.

We smoked one with our jeep wrangler 3 days before we were to leave on vacation. We were planning on driving the jeep.

We got lucky. It scuffed up the driver side fender flare, and left some poop and fur on the front bumper

 

[bdhsfz6]

An interesting whitetail story:

A tree in the back of a coworkers yard was struck by lightning a few years ago. There were 7 deer under it and all were killed. He called the PA game commission and asked what he should do. The warden he spoke with said it would be ok to take them all to a butcher who would then donate the meat. On the way to the butcher, he was stopped, with 7 deer in the bed of his pickup, by the state police. He explained that the game commission told him it was ok, but he was arrested anyway. The warden he spoke with was out of the office and couldn't verify the story. He spent a night in jail before the whole affair was resolved.

 

[LouNY]

An interesting whitetail story:

A tree in the back of a coworkers yard was struck by lightning a few years ago. There were 7 deer under it and all were killed. He called the PA game commission and asked what he should do. The warden he spoke with said it would be ok to take them all to a butcher who would then donate the meat. On the way to the butcher, he was stopped, with 7 deer in the bed of his pickup, by the state police. He explained that the game commission told him it was ok, but he was arrested anyway. The warden he spoke with was out of the office and couldn't verify the story. He spent a night in jail before the whole affair was resolved.

That would have been interesting to be that poor butcher, his shop would have been a mess. I also have to wonder about the taste of that meat with the animal not having been bleed out.

 

[bdhsfz6]

That would have been interesting to be that poor butcher, his shop would have been a mess. I also have to wonder about the taste of that meat with the animal not having been bleed out.

The butcher was recommended by the warden. Apparently, they deal with situations like this. The warden said my coworker could keep one for himself but he declined for the reasons you mention.

 

[garry1p]

Cooked from the inside out like a microwave.

 

[bdhsfz6]

Cooked from the inside out like a microwave.

I wish more would get fried. The whitetail population here in PA is just ridiculous. It's rumored the PA Game Commission may allow Sunday hunting in an attempt to cull the herd.

 

[kenmbz]

I wish more would get fried. The whitetail population here in PA is just ridiculous. It's rumored the PA Game Commission may allow Sunday hunting in an attempt to cull the herd.

A few of our neighbors did a big cull and a lot of does were cleared out.
Unfortunately it looks like they took out all the young bucks too, being investigated.
I guess they've never seen antlers before?

We still have too many, but at least I only see 2-3/day instead of 5-20.

With the numbers I was seeing, I would imagine winter would be very rough.

We have lots of autumn olive with berries out now, so they have a lot to eat for winter prep.
We even had one try to eat one of our hot peppers, learning experience..Deer backed up pretty fast!

 

[NoTrespassing]

Bluetongue disease - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

We're losing them like flies to Blue Tongue disease. There were 3 dead within 300 ft. of our house with buzzards eating them.

 

[kenmbz]

Bluetongue disease - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

We're losing them like flies to Blue Tongue disease. There were 3 dead within 300 ft. of our house with buzzards eating them.

That sounds pretty bad, we have chronic wasting disease not too far away, Hopefully we won't be hit by either, but.....

 

[garry1p]

I read an article in a hunting magazine where 1 buck can service 10 does.

I think it was in NC and they wanted to keep it close to that ratio.