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My ex-sister-in-laws new husband is a hunter. If and when he gets a deer....I will get some Venison. My ex-sister-in-law doesn't eat Bambi meat....so I will cook some it for her husband.

I usually do a deer hunt with the bow during the year but not this one.

I avoid people who go out and kill harmless, wild animals like deer. I'm one who feeds deer. There are those who think the "sport" of hunting won't ever be a sport until the deer are equally armed.

I've had venison. I don't care for it that much.

Huntin' season ?. Always thought it was all year round on EMW !.

GG, that's where we differ. Your idealist views as opposed to the realist views I hold. Have you ever hit a deer in your car or on a motorcycle? I've hit 6 and killed 3 with my car. Have you ever had the deer wipe out your garden or fruit trees? They are not harmless by any stretch of the imagination. My guess is that about the only thing you know about supplying food is Safeway or a similar venue. I always felt it rather condensending when hunting was attacked as a sport by any meat eating person. I've never been able to understand how paying someone else to kill and prepare your food for you, gives someone any moral high ground as opposed to doing it yourself. It amazes me when anyone opposes hunting wild animals but makes not mention of the farm and ranch raised animals that are slaughtered to provide them bacon, hot wings or hamburgers. I always thought dead was dead, that there wasn't any varying levels. I've never understood that concept and you see it elsewhere in beliefs as well. If you get killed in a car crash, you're dead but if you get shot, somehow your Dead Dead or your just a farm turkey or hog as opposed to being wild and harmless. ???? By relying on a store, people are financing the free market only. Hunters buy licenses, stamps, tags and usage fees that support the managing of the wild life besides the free market for our equiptment and other needs. Being a country boy, I grew up with slaughtering chickens, hogs, cows and the processing and preserving needs. If I take a deer, it goes on the table the same as anything else. We simply arrived at the same conclusion by different means. By the way, if you enjoy watching wildlife and have the room (not a backyard), put out a salt lick and prepare your camera but beware that you may find wild animals that occupy your space that you wasn't even aware of.

WARNING/Very Graphic - Don't open this video if you're faint of heart about watching a wild turkey loosing its head prior to this hunting lady putting it in her oven. For realist only eyes!

GG, this ones safe and funny. This stupid fool doused himself with doe esteress and went out and hid behind a bush so he could find a nice buck. He found one more than he really bargained for.

No, I've never hit a deer with my auto or anything else. Oh, I have avoided a few who hopped out in front of my car, at least half a dozen times. With lightning fast reflexes and being a professional driver, so far I've never hit one.

Yes, deer came into my organic, daily tended with sweat and labor garden this spring. One visited one night, chomped leaves off several veggies and the next night didn't like the cayenne sprinkled on the leaves. For he took one leaf, dropped it and didn't come back again..

I've had a salt lick out before and observed the deer every day, watched their behavior the does with their fawns. Proud bucks who stood back while the does and fawns got first pick of the food I left out and stood watch. Then came for the food when another buck showed up to take his place. A local bakery used to rid itself of bread by the bag full which a neighbor tossed out to feed them. It's one of the funniest sights to see a fawn with a bagel, trotting off as if he had a purse of gold.

I spent some time raising chickens, too, killing them, plucking them. After learning how Smithfield Farms factory raising pigs in cages one on top of the other, in such filth and stench many sicken and die as well as a carelessw worker who tends without proper protective clothing or accidentally falls into one of their sewage pools, I'm off pork completely now since Smithfiled has 75% of the pork market.

Where I live now, a fox comes through every night, possum, an occasional raccoon, feral cats abound and birds from turkey vultures to the sweetest sounding red birds who grace the yard every morning. Most of the animals dig in my compost pile for the cooked vegetables and stale breads. I quit burying the first day, so the animals don't have to dig through leaves and dirt to get at what they want. Have you ever seen a fox trotting off with a bagel, head held high, like he had a prize?

Over the years I've been less and less red meat. The more I learn of the factory farms, how the animals are kept, the sick ones that are dragged to slaughter and butchered for meat to show up on our supermarket shelves, coupled with the incidence of colon cancer and other ailments directly traceable to the amount of red meat we eat, I'm opting for less and less on the table.

Who knows but someday I may become a vegetarian, or at least opt for fish and maybe fowl on the plate. And the fowl free range, at that.

Yaaaaaay for that deer! LOl!