Only Answer for Deer is Licensed Hunting

Gus why are you collecting porcupine crap?

Tai chi--youre not chai tea in anagram form are you?

For the record, I don't mind hunting to cull wild deer populations.

I mind that hunting and development has to do with why they're so out of control -- that their natural predators like wolves aren't able to do what they've done forever.

sozobe wrote:

For the record, I don't mind hunting to cull wild deer populations.

I mind that hunting and development has to do with why they're so out of control -- that their natural predators like wolves aren't able to do what they've done forever.

You'd stop minding that the very first day one of your kids got torn apart by a pack of wolves. Our ancestors were not idiots; they got rid of wolves in the south 48 for real and substantial reasons.

... To protect livestock, ranchers and government agencies began a campaign to eliminate the wolf. Bounty programs, initiated in the 19th Century, continued as late as 1965, offering $20 to $50 per wolf.

Gus, that's bullshit. You can easily hit a deer even if you're paying full attention. A deer could run right in front of your car and you simply wouldn't have enough reaction time to stop. Just because you haven't hit one yet doesn't mean you never will.

Intrepid wrote:

... To protect livestock, ranchers and government agencies began a campaign to eliminate the wolf. Bounty programs, initiated in the 19th Century, continued as late as 1965, offering $20 to $50 per wolf.

On this planet and probably in the entire Milky Way galaxy, there is not a better or more productive way to spend twenty to fifty dollars.

You didn't read my post properly, Slappy. I said almost never. I realize there are instances where there is virtually nothing the driver can do, but that is a very, very, small percentage of the time.

And, by the way, I never expect you to correct me, or try to correct me, again.

Is that understood?

gungasnake wrote:

Intrepid wrote:

... To protect livestock, ranchers and government agencies began a campaign to eliminate the wolf. Bounty programs, initiated in the 19th Century, continued as late as 1965, offering $20 to $50 per wolf.

On this planet and probably in the entire Milky Way galaxy, there is not a better or more productive way to spend twenty to fifty dollars.

They might put the money to better use in curbing the gun population

Robert Weber saw them out his kitchen window, hopping in inch-deep snow in the pasture where his sheep were supposed to be.

Out of the house to investigate in the early morning light, Weber saw what had drawn the black-and-white scavengers to his Paradise Valley ranch. The birds were picking away at his dead sheep.

"I counted eight dead sheep and a couple more torn up pretty bad," Weber said, recalling the morning last December. "I could see wolf tracks all over, about five inches long. That's one hell of a track."

The sheep that survived were huddled together and terrified - some are still stricken with fear today, Weber said. The wolves returned the next night to his brother's place next door, scattering 17 dead sheep over a half-mile, according to Weber.

"This was like Pearl Harbor for my brother and me," said Weber, 79. "I've fought coyotes out here for 50 years but they don't hold a candle to these wolves." ...................

A...s her husband swung his rifle in her direction, Diana Sundles threw herself to the ground. His fourth shot finally killed the large grey wolf that was charging at them, dropping the animal just 10 feet from her prone figure....

Mountain lions are the same way. In California, lion hunting was stupidly put a a vote, and now there are lions showing up in downtown areas, and people getting killed. My wife and I were once stalked by a mountain lion - we almost didn't notice it until it was too late. Not cool.