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My fellow hunters.

They need to open up the area to bow hunting!
Make anyone interested in Attending go through a 'training course' or something to prove that they're capable...

And dish out tags like candy... lol
 
Got the same issue here in Northern Virginia my dude. Everyone complaining about all the roadkill and deer eating the carefully manicured landscaping but a fella can’t get permission to harvest a few to manage the herd. Oh well. Bon appetit for the deer
 
Got the same issue here in Northern Virginia my dude. Everyone complaining about all the roadkill and deer eating the carefully manicured landscaping but a fella can’t get permission to harvest a few to manage the herd. Oh well. Bon appetit for the deer
Then they quietly hire the silenced sniper team to come in under the cover of darkness to execute a few dozen. It’s so much more politically correct to do it that way….
 
Then they quietly hire the silenced sniper team to come in under the cover of darkness to execute a few dozen.
That's a real thing man. Paid them to come to the Roanoke area years ago. They were effective but then the city realized if they opened up an urban archery season, they achieved the same results.
 
Everything revolves around money and can't understand why they don't act accordingly on it.

Have the state DNR do an analysis on the population or even have a grad student do it as part of a project. If they need to reduce the herd by 10, offer a lottery for $20 to city residents only. If 100 by a ticket, the city made $2k which then going into a fund to pay for the herd management. Using the same number, lottery winners would be broken into (2) groups of 5 with each group hunting a specific weekend. Allow for anterless only and make a stipulation that they cannot gut in the field.

Herd is reduced, hunters get some meat and city gets some cash.
 
Everything revolves around money and can't understand why they don't act accordingly on it.

Have the state DNR do an analysis on the population or even have a grad student do it as part of a project. If they need to reduce the herd by 10, offer a lottery for $20 to city residents only. If 100 by a ticket, the city made $2k which then going into a fund to pay for the herd management. Using the same number, lottery winners would be broken into (2) groups of 5 with each group hunting a specific weekend. Allow for anterless only and make a stipulation that they cannot gut in the field.

Herd is reduced, hunters get some meat and city gets some cash.
They are doing that at Lake Springfield in Illinois this year, which hasn’t been hunted in over 27 years.
 
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