Open Season

19 Replies to “Open Season”

1. Why Kate? It’s not like you can actually hit one!
   😉
   Sorry! I had to comment on that after this last hunting season you posted about!
   I love you! Really I do!

2. I will eat as many deer as I want to when I need to.

3. If we had reasonable firearms laws and a reasonable quota on high deer density areas, then hunters could manage this quite easily. We used to. Over abundance of wild game is a recent problem invented by the government.
   If hunters could get…say two tags a month over later August into December, their freezers would be full. Small butcher shops could take donated deer and it could be distributed to the poor or elderly. New hunters could be easily trained and rewarded for their efforts.
   Don’t create a new “agency” to deal with what ordinary citizens unfettered by red tape can solve easily and cheaply.
   Add in the increased number of deer/vehicle collisions and you also have a public safety problem, again created by the government.
   This herd is in Alberta, well ask Danielle Smith if the Wildrose Alliance will return wildlife management to the public interest that hunting and conservation groups initiated years ago.

4. Mommy has to hit a few deer with her precious snowflakes in the car before anything can be done.

5. Looks like a job for a 50 calibre “Ma Deuce”.

6. Too many deer will likely lead to too many large predators.
   Then we’ll have to shoot the deer and the predators.

7. The problem with deer populations on Vancouver island is approaching the point of insanity; talk about hunting and you get jumped on for “wanting to kill Bambi”. I’ve had a few close calls with deer on the highway driving back roads SW of Victoria and, at a friends place near Metchosen, a herd of 10 deer would walk through his yard every night completely unafraid of humans. Needless to say, gardening was not an option.
   Victoria is full of moonbats as was evidenced by the major uproar over plans to kill rabbits that were getting into Victoria General hospital and chewing through wiring. UVic campus was swarming with rabbits and no-one did anything about it until last year. If I was a starving student at UVic, I’d be feasting on rabbit daily but rabbits that have been captured there are “relocated” rather than going on someones dinner table.
   Here’s where Canada’s native Indian population can be very helpful. One of the common problems I see in this population is quite significant obesity as the result of eating an unnatural diet and my prescription for that is a high protein/high fat diet which can be easily attained by eating large amounts of wild meat. Patients of mine who have followed this advice have lost large amounts of weight as well as doing their bit to protect the environment from predations of deer. Must be nice to be able to hunt year round and piss off moonbats with the traditional customs excuse when they get outraged over someone actually killing animals instead of distributing condoms for deer.
   I’m sure that the disappearance of BC bird species will be blamed on CAGW, not innocent Bambi who can’t possibly do any harm.

8. I haven’t been to Mayne Island for some 20+ years, but here’s a current report on their no hunting policy repercussions:
   http://www.vancouversun.com/technology/Soaring+deer+numbers+hurting+other+species+study+finds/4154435/story.html
   Quote: ”
   Deer are munching vegetation on some Gulf Islands to the point where they’re changing the environment, such as driving away songbirds that rely on vegetation for food and nesting, a University of B.C. study has found.”

9. Good one Bacardi. Not too healthy for you but funny anyhow.

10. Last evening around dusk I had to wait for a herd of white tails at least that big to cross the road.
    Some didn’t want to leave the road as it must be tough slogging through the deep snow in the fields.

11. Check out the moose problem in Newfoundland – 40% population increase every year – no natural predators. They’re like meece.

12. “Looks like a job for a 50 calibre “Ma Deuce”.”
    Posted by: RCGZ at January 26, 2011 2:25 AM
    I thought the idea was to eat them, not vapourize.

13. I just watched a news report about a women in Trawna last night who was hoarding cats. Starving, filthy, and riddled with disease. Looks like the tree huggers are given a free pass when they do it with deer.

14. It’s curious that these large herds don’t succumb to infection. Are the moonbats giving them antibiotics?

15. I used to traverse the US to access the Canadian West without the long trek through Northern Ontario.
    The observed pattern was anything north of Saganaw through to Winterpeg or Portal ND was deer alley.
    Also Marshall Mi (junction of I69 and I94) was a bad spot, indeed, lots of sightings of “throngs” much bigger than Kate’s post….indeed I69 from Lansing through to the Indiana line and south was deer hazard.
    Hereabouts we are more than suspecious that government is clandestinely introducing large predators to control deer. A farmer, after being ridiculed, by the ministry, for reporting a cougar, popped the critter in his livestock and quietly buried the body…only to have it exhumed next day by the ministry and fined. The criter was “chipped”.
    Local radio is constantly reporting vehicle/deer “interactions”……
    The Hamilton area conservation authority authorized FN hunting of deer in one of their area….inciting the bambi lovers and hoplophobes although the lads were using bows…..
    Meanwhile packs of coyotes are nocturnally patroling the streets of Woodstock….Joe Molnar can confirm….
    At least the bears are likely denned up for the winter….
    I have observed 1(one) cotton tail all winter….
    Pasture Poodles(woodchucks) seem to be extinct. The 50 acre alfalfa field across the road has NO groundhogs….back in the ’50’s a 10 acre field would have 10-15…..
    Haleluya

16. I get issued 2 doe tags every year for my Mule doe draws. But I only take 1. There’s not a lot of room in my freezer for two beasts and one usually lasts me the winter.
    So I propose this: a Spring hunting season! And a Summer season. The deer can have winter when it’s cold.

17. Hooved rats.

18. This is interesting,I’ve read on several blogs that the deer population has increased in all parts of B.C.,Alberta,Sask.,Manitoba,and Ontario.
    Now,I wonder if this is the result of less hunting pressure,due to the “gun control” movement, or something natural.
    Some might say it’s global warming. In the fifty-odd years I’ve been hunting,there have been cycles of cold and not so cold Winters,but the deer population has steadily increased across such a broad area of Canada over the last twenty years,I have to question my own theory.
    And,NO,I’m NOT a believer in AGW.
    The BC Wildlife branch has started issuing Doe licences in some areas, season a week long,so that might cut the population down a bit.
    Last Fall I noticed that every Doe had two fawns though, so maybe even Doe licences won’t have much of an impact. Most young hunters I’ve met are determined to take a “big buck” or nothing.
    Someone on “Metis Online” suggested a commercial hunt,that might be the way to go.
    In the meantime,the area I hunt has seen an explosion of the cougar and bear populations,more of both than at any time since the ‘fifties.

19. John Lewis>
    “It’s curious that these large herds don’t succumb to infection”
    They spread tick borne diseases like Lyme’s.