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Post by drs on Jul 27, 2010 6:58:17 GMT -5
The shorter gun season for Deer plus a VERY liberal Doe harvest will be harmful to the Indiana Deer Herd. It will take the Deer population back to where it was in the late 1960's. IMHO.
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Post by thecommissioner on Jul 27, 2010 11:58:42 GMT -5
I've said for years and years that if they want people to kill more deer they have to give them an incentive to do so. Years ago killing a deer, any deer, was tough to do. Now it is a pretty darn simple IF the area holds a good amount of deer. Killing a deer is not tough and the more that you kill the more work it becomes. This true, but let me expand on it. To kill more deer there must be more than one incentive. The current pool of hunters won't kill more deer because either they don't want more meat, don't want to pay more processing fees, can't find someone who wants the carcass, or don't want to leave the carcass for the coyotes. One solution is to enlarge the pool of hunters and the ONLY way that is going to happen is either through reduced license fees and/or easier access to land. In effect, the highest barriers to entry to the sport must be lowered. The other incentive is for the state or other non governmental organizations to make it easy for the carcass to be donated. I'll kill more deer only if I know it is not going to cost me more for meat I don't want. One deer per year is plenty for my family. Who gets the additional one I take? Lower the barriers to disposing of venison and more will be disposed of. |
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Post by Woody Williams on Jul 27, 2010 12:04:23 GMT -5
I've said for years and years that if they want people to kill more deer they have to give them an incentive to do so. Years ago killing a deer, any deer, was tough to do. Now it is a pretty darn simple IF the area holds a good amount of deer. Killing a deer is not tough and the more that you kill the more work it becomes. This true, but let me expand on it. To kill more deer there must be more than one incentive. The current pool of hunters won't kill more deer because either they don't want more meat, don't want to pay more processing fees, can't find someone who wants the carcass, or don't want to leave the carcass for the coyotes. One solution is to enlarge the pool of hunters and the ONLY way that is going to happen is either through reduced license fees and/or easier access to land. In effect, the highest barriers to entry to the sport must be lowered. The other incentive is for the state or other non governmental organizations to make it easy for the carcass to be donated. I'll kill more deer only if I know it is not going to cost me more for meat I don't want. One deer per year is plenty for my family. Who gets the additional one I take? Lower the barriers to disposing of venison and more will be disposed of. Agreed.. a full freezer is a full freezer. I donate most of my deer to my church's food pantry.. I caught three kinds of heck form one of the big antler guys in that I wasn't personally eating what I killed. Even said," I had not trained my wife right" cause she did not care to cook it.. Ain't that a hoot? |
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Post by tenring on Jul 27, 2010 12:38:36 GMT -5
Tell that "one of the big antler guys" to drop by my house and train my wife, going on 40 years and I've try every thing I could think of, and some suggestions from others. That bozo wouldn't last 5 minutes at my house before she nailed him to the wall.
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Post by thecommissioner on Jul 27, 2010 13:50:17 GMT -5
I donate most of my deer to my church's food pantry.. My experience with my church's food pantry is the 'customers' turn their noses up at any frozen meat that doesn't come from a farm animal. And it can't be beef tongue either. Beggars are certainly choosy in my little town. But that's a topic for another thread. |
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Post by DEERTRACKS on Jul 27, 2010 14:34:31 GMT -5
The folks at our local "homeless" shelter look forward to deer season & my 2-3 whole deer donations on my dime. It has to be rationed out so everyone gets some. Homelessness seems to change picky eaters in my neck of the woods.
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Post by drs on Jul 27, 2010 14:43:50 GMT -5
I once donated several pounds of Deer Burger to Evansville's Food Pantry.
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Post by tenring on Jul 27, 2010 15:20:42 GMT -5
The folks at our local "homeless" shelter look forward to deer season & my 2-3 whole deer donations on my dime. It has to be rationed out so everyone gets some. Homelessness seems to change picky eaters in my neck of the woods. Where is the local homeless shelter, and how do I go about donating, and I'm not paying for processing. The money tree in the back yard got zapped by a late frost this spring. |
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