A great "blog"

[Hooker771]

Ive been reading this guy for a while now. Pretty decent insights.

http://fieldandstream.blogs.com/sportsmanslife/

Overpopulated Whitetails, Come On Down!

A suburban couple in a well-to-do neighborhood near here got fed up with deer destroying their flowers and bushes. John and Carmela Peterson tried deterrents, even considered a fence, but decided getting the required variance might be slow and expensive. The county verified the extent of the damage and recommended hunting, in part because the local deer herd is at or beyond the land’s carrying capacity. Now holding a damage control permit, the Petersons invited a licensed bowhunter in. They had every reason to believe they had hit upon a way to manage, if not solve, the problem.

But things play out differently if your neighbors are wealthy, well-connected, and rabidly anti-hunting. The people next door, Martina and Anthony Caputy, were horrified. “None of us are farmers,†she told the Washington Post. “We’re not dependent on crops or anything like that.†She called their efforts “senseless slaughter.†It didn’t stop there. Anthony Caputy is former chief of neurosurgery at an area hospital, where he once operated on Bob Barker, the 85-year-old former host of “The Price Is Right,†a man always happy to lend his celebrity to animal rights causes. Barker dashed off a letter to the state about deer treading “an ancestral path that leads them to and from their sleeping place †and saying killing them would render nearby children “catatonic†and the adults “up in arms.â€

PETA founder Ingrid Newkirk, never one to pass up the chance to pour accelerant onto a house fire, roused the troops and weighed in with a predictable statement, calling hunting “selfish, callous and cowardly.â€

When told by a Post reporter that PETA and Bob Barker were issuing press releases about her backyard deer, Carmela Peterson’s first reaction was: “You’ve got to be kidding.†The Petersons met with their neighbors. In the end, they decided the loss of landscaping wasn’t worth the enmity of the community. The irony? The Petersons themselves are longtime PETA supporters. Mrs. Peterson once donated her car to the group.

The lesson for hunters is not that PETA will cannibalize its own supporters if they stop drinking the Kool-Aid. It’s that we face an extremely motivated, shrewd, and relentless group that would like to see hunting outlawed. If you’re a hunter, always be on your best behavior in public. Next time you see a hunter acting like a slob, remember that he’s hurting all of us.

[Guest JavaGuy]

Thanks for the link. You're right. It is a good read...

[Guest Major Pain]

Glad I live in the sticks, I'll thin the herd before the neighbors get to close.--MP

[Guest jackdog]

Me too Thin the herd out every year. But I also make good use of the meat.