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Hey yall.
It's been a while.

Anyhoo, so I read this story today and I started thinking about deer hunting in general and how this applies to the concept.

I grew up in a small town in "The Heart of Texas" called Brady.
This is smack dab in the middle of deer hunting country so I have literally been around it all my life. I have absolutely no problem with culling deer because if you have ever spent any time down in that area then you know there are WAAAAY too many of them. I have been in a truck or car that has hit a deer 3 times and I had several friends wreck, get hurt and even die from deer overcrowding.

Take a stroll down Highy 377 South some time and breathe in the roadside carnage.
Its kind of hard to miss.

Anyway, speaking as someone that has been around this and eaten tons of deer meat myself... I hope you can understand that I am not a vegetarian or a member of PETA or anything... but I have to make some comments...

First off, this person that killed this tame deer is pathetic... but most hunters are actually. These deer that we have down in Brady are all tame. They are fed year round by the ranchers that want to rent out their property to city folk and they get used to people pretty much from the day they are born. That is why there are so many of them dead on the road side. That's also why they would wander into my high school and hang out on our football field back when I lived there.

Most "hunters" are actually city grown BLEEP bags that decide one time a year that they want to kill something so they pay a bunch of money to rent a cabin or call up their drinkin buddies and all lease out a piece of land and then head down to bag a buck.

...and this is how they "hunt":

They stick a big lolly pop in the ground where the deer hang out or throw out some corn and then wait a few minutes until the deer come moseying on up. Then they shoot them and get the local taxidermist to stuff the piece they care about.

That is pretty much what "hunting" is in Texas.
There are a few people out there that actually do real hunting but not as many as there used to be... and they are clearly the minority.

I say this because anybody that gets all up in arms about this tame deer getting killed needs to understand that this is just how most people that "hunt" think about their hobby. They are used to killing tame deer so this is no big deal to someone like that.

Who cares as long as you get the head right?

Personally, I have never killed a deer myself... not on purpose anyway... but if I ever wanted to I would do it some place where the deer were actually wild and hunting still meant something. Maybe if we treated it like a sport again instead of a financial transaction between ranchers and city chumps then this sort of mentality wouldnt be so acceptable.

Just my two cents.

Thanks yall.
-Cy

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