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Deer and Vehicles
As I was driving to work a deer decided to run straight into the side of my car. My Ford could have probably taken the hit but my Celica didn't fair to well. I have not seen a deer that had that nice of a rack in all my years of hunting.
Meanwhile, as I went and got a truck to at least grab my trophy somebody had stolen the fallen beast. This was a bad day. Here is a question.
How do you feel about extending hunting season to eliminate deer accidents?
Meanwhile, as I went and got a truck to at least grab my trophy somebody had stolen the fallen beast. This was a bad day. Here is a question.
How do you feel about extending hunting season to eliminate deer accidents?
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From: Bellingham, WA
i dont know about extending the season but making more lenient laws wo uld be nice. I know in WA state wher ei used to live muzzleloader hunter are not aloud to kill anything unless its a 3 point (western standard) buck or more. Here in Indiana its basically 3-4 deer depending where you are.... If you extend the hunting season it would deplete the population to almost null, as it is now i think that it is kept fairly in check
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From: SouthWest Ohio
I don't hunt, but I say extend the season as long as necessary to thin the herd. There's way too many deer here in SW Ohio. They eat my plants, they run in front of my truck, and there's fresh ones that are hit daily along-side the road. I'm very lucky I haven't smacked one yet (MR looks for wood to knock on). Are these animals that stupid that they haven't adapted yet to fear moving vehicles?
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From: fremont ohio
In certain parts of Ohio, you can only take 1 deer a season. Others are 2, and very few you can take 3 a season. There's still a ton of deer out and about though. MrOld, I know what you mean, I'm in S.E. Ohio and I've seen quite a few runnin around.
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From: The Star-Club, Hamburg
I am definitely in favor of thinning the herd. I have'nt hit a deer on the road yet (knock on wood), but I've seen them in my fields when I was combining and nearly ran them through the combine. They destroy crops, spread disease, and are a menace on the road. And worse yet, the laws say that if you get caught with one out of season, you go to jail because that deer belongs to the state, but if you hit one with your car, it's your insurance that pays. Seems terribly unfair to me. I say open the season up... around here, there are diehard hunters who would hunt year-round if you gave them a chance at it.
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My minivan was hit by a deer while I was traveling 70mph down I-71 near Columbus,OH. Mind you, I didn't hit the deer, he ran into the side of the van, blowing out the rear side window and causing paint damage. That same season, only 6 of the 140 persons where I work did not have a deer/car incident. With that memory and having to see bloated carcasses strewn along the roads through my area, I'll heartily endorse a longer season!
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From: Near Wamego KS
FarmForward;
Two of my brothers combine with Mini30s in the cabs, deer are shot whenever the oppurtunity presents its self. One brother "claims" to have picked off 34 this year, thought he was full of it until I helped them a couple weeks ago. Twice a herd of over thirty where chased out of the corn. They stood around like cattle waiting for the combine to go by so they could eat the shellings coming out of the back. Didn't run until my brother stood on the platform and shot three of them. Part of my job running the grain cart was to haul off the bodies. Walking through the corn rows you could see the damage caused by them was enormous.
There will be flack about not butchering them, but you can legally shoot them for causing damage if you DON'T eat them. I'm all for a longer season, wish they'd drop the tagging idea and just have an open season for a year or two (or three) to get the numbers back down. When I was kid growing up seeing a deer was a rare site, now they are as common as cows.
Two of my brothers combine with Mini30s in the cabs, deer are shot whenever the oppurtunity presents its self. One brother "claims" to have picked off 34 this year, thought he was full of it until I helped them a couple weeks ago. Twice a herd of over thirty where chased out of the corn. They stood around like cattle waiting for the combine to go by so they could eat the shellings coming out of the back. Didn't run until my brother stood on the platform and shot three of them. Part of my job running the grain cart was to haul off the bodies. Walking through the corn rows you could see the damage caused by them was enormous.
There will be flack about not butchering them, but you can legally shoot them for causing damage if you DON'T eat them. I'm all for a longer season, wish they'd drop the tagging idea and just have an open season for a year or two (or three) to get the numbers back down. When I was kid growing up seeing a deer was a rare site, now they are as common as cows.
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From: Missouri
here in missouri, you can get a buck tag, and 2 antlerless only tags, but I *think*, you may be able to buy more tags, somebody from mo might know more about this...
we don't have them as thick in the crop fields as you Kansas fellers, but, I think that the state should take the meat, and donate to needy people, in a situation like that...
on another note, think what it would be like if hunting and guns were eliminated altogether! have to kick deer out of the house, probably.
my grandparents have a coupla concrete deer yard ornaments, when I was in high school (about 10 years ago) I was waiting for the bus, when a monster of a buck ran right past me, within 15 feet of me, ran to the concrete buck, and did battle with it, broke the antlers of the yard ornament, and knocked it over, the live deer then ran out of the yard, wish I'd had a gun!
we don't have them as thick in the crop fields as you Kansas fellers, but, I think that the state should take the meat, and donate to needy people, in a situation like that...
on another note, think what it would be like if hunting and guns were eliminated altogether! have to kick deer out of the house, probably.
my grandparents have a coupla concrete deer yard ornaments, when I was in high school (about 10 years ago) I was waiting for the bus, when a monster of a buck ran right past me, within 15 feet of me, ran to the concrete buck, and did battle with it, broke the antlers of the yard ornament, and knocked it over, the live deer then ran out of the yard, wish I'd had a gun!
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From: Southern Alberta
Originally Posted by BJake86
As I was driving to work a deer decided to run straight into the side of my car. My Ford could have probably taken the hit but my Celica didn't fair to well. I have not seen a deer that had that nice of a rack in all my years of hunting.
Meanwhile, as I went and got a truck to at least grab my trophy somebody had stolen the fallen beast. This was a bad day. Here is a question.
How do you feel about extending hunting season to eliminate deer accidents?
Meanwhile, as I went and got a truck to at least grab my trophy somebody had stolen the fallen beast. This was a bad day. Here is a question.
How do you feel about extending hunting season to eliminate deer accidents?
I think they should allow bow hunting within the city of the durn varmints.
The deer I hit BTW was a 5 point whitetail buck. Luckily I saw it run up out of the ditch on the right or it would've popped my airbags and maybe come thru the windsheild, because it was trying to PASS me
It ran away from the scene with one leg badly broken. My dad happened to be golfing on a par 3 near there about a week later, asked me what size the buck was. It had died just off the fourth hole, and the coyotes and magpies had been at it, but it's rack was still there.
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From: Atlanta GA
In any state where they have more then 500 deer accidents a year, I think they should allow unlimited kills for bow hunting until the population is bought back under control. Then if it is still too high, increase the limits for black powder hunters too.
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We have a serious deer problem in Michigan. The insurance companies constantly complain about deer related accident claims. I can't remember the stats on it, but I was shocked at the high number. Many of these accidents result in multiple deaths when occuring on the highway.
I say extended the season. We lost nearly 200,000 jobs in Michigan over the past few years. Not only would it make our roads safer, an extended deer hunting season would be good for our economy up here too.
I say extended the season. We lost nearly 200,000 jobs in Michigan over the past few years. Not only would it make our roads safer, an extended deer hunting season would be good for our economy up here too.
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From: Eastern Shore, Md.
In maryland, The bag limit is 12 per season (bow, muzzleloader, firearm)for a total of 36, some parts of the state is umlimited antlerless. The problem is areas with the greatest population of deer happen to be where the human population is the greatest.
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From: Mount Calvary, WI
I was reading an article on the internet. The DMV in Wisconsin reported 21,666 deer vs. vehicle reports for 2003, up 5.8% from 2002. I think WI definately needs to do something about that. Almost 800 injuries and 13 deaths.