Poacher

There are few battles as important as our public image, With us being in the minority I would think that it would just make sense to most of you that we need to think about what we do and how the non hunting population sees us, especially when they are turning out to the poling booths is mass numbers and despite the outcome of our last election they are becoming more leftest and as Art put it wimpy. No where in the constitution does it give us the right to hunt, the non hunters can and do take that away from us when they vote from time to time, and as most of you may know it does not even take a vote. They can legislate away our rights from the bench as they have done here in Idaho with the wolf, or as they have in some back east area with the bear.
 
Pardon me my friend but my rights do not emanate from the Constitution. The Constitution is a list of not to exceeds for the Government. You need another cup of coffee before telling people that they have no right to hunt because we do!
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I am sorry I don't know this already, but can my wife or I shoot a deer thats in our backyard on our property??

no, we haven't done this. they have been lying in our field before at night when I got home from work. a little scary because you don't know what it is at first. we're just curious if it is allowed(mainly for deer due to thread but also any non-endangered species)??

ps- shooting on our property isn't an issue and we know this depends on where people live due to laws and/or common sense
 
game wardedn might not even have thought of it while he was just doing his job. I'm not taking sides on that one- just saying that he/her has a job to do
 
Re "display": Forty/fifty years ago and back beyond, there were not nearly as many deer as there are today. It was darned near a required thing to carry a buck home in a display setup. It was not until the late 1960s and 1970s that so many people started making mouth music about the evils of killing Bambi.
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At one time it was illegal to conceal a deer or bear while transporting it in NY. It had to be openly displayed on the vehicle
 
therealdeal, if you can legally shoot at all on your own property, I doubt that a deer's location on that property matter at all. I know of more than one deer that's been shot from a farmer's/rancher's window. :)

SFAIK, the only controls for you would be license, season and legal hours for taking game.
 
But as a hunting population we are in the minority at about 7% of the population.
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Sorry but in Iowa almost all are hunters :) and we as a whole wish for less deer so hunt often :) and show it off.

On I 80 I see lots of trucks and such have dead elk and so on in the back.
 
ok thanx guyz. that should definately work then. I do need to check the laws to be sure of everything since I don't even know if its legal to fire weapons on the property. we do it, everybody else does it near here, so we think its ok- just never officially checked. sounds bad but it really isn't that much of an issue here but Definately needs to be checked out more thoroughly for the future. I did read the virginia laws a while back and after skimming a long while I am pretty confident the private property shooting isn't an issue legally
 
Shooting is rarely restricted outside of city limits, unless a state has enabled some regulation of small tracts. Such regulation is commonly for tracts of ten acres or less.
 
As noted there are way more deer than in the 40s...all because of hunters.

A bambi lover never helped any deer and there money goes??I suppose it stays in their pocket.

There used to be Fund for Animals, Cleveland Amory etc.. Where have they all gone? Most donations to thjose groups went for a Lincoln for the 'director' and those kinds of things.
 
A bambi lover never helped any deer
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Aint that the truth, years ago in Fla there was some flooding, islands were disappearing. A group of hunters wanted to thin the deer herd so they could survive. But no, peta lobbied got the hunt stopped, went out in boats and traps, got all them deer off them islands but the deer died from trapping and the ride in. I belive this was in the 80s. Let the hunters do their thing and them deer or some of them would still be around now.
 
markj, that was a Cleveland Amory deal. The wildlife folks got pushed into netting and transporting via helicopter. What didn't make the newspapers much and certainly was not repeated by Amory was that the cost was $1,500 per deer, and the mortality rate from injury and stress was around 80%.

I still say that the worst enemies of rational wildlife management were Felix Salter (author of "Bambi") and Walt Disney/Marlin Perkins with the Disney shtick and "Wild Kingdom".
 
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