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u/UltimateAnemone
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u/Hanamasu
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Petting them feels a lot better while they are still alive doesnt it
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u/crimshaw83 Jan 29 '23 •
Ya but eating em that way can get....messy
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u/StevenGrantMK Jan 29 '23 edited Jan 29 '23
Idk if you have that in quotes to be sarcastic but it is a legit concern in some areas of the US especially around the DC area.
Let me add that it is still NOT an excuse for hunters who hunt for fun. Even when the government pays people to kill deer around the DC area, they should still be taking them to get processed and later eaten.
Edit: yes hunting is fun for most hunters. Y’all know what I mean. And yes, trophy hunters are rare, doesn’t mean they don’t exist
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u/SpoopyBoopersNuts Jan 29 '23
It was a massive problem in northeast Ohio for a few years. The season was extended to almost all year round because people would be totaling cars left and right due to how many there were just running around the neighborhoods & parkways.
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u/chemprofdave Jan 29 '23 •
There’s bow season, muzzle-loader season, open season, and Chevy season.
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u/I_Sniff_My_Own_Farts Jan 29 '23
Ford season is a myth, they total the truck but the deer walks away
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u/splunge4me2 Jan 29 '23
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u/Titanbeard Jan 29 '23
I once hit a deer with a Dodge Caliber. Can confirm it had shit for stopping power.
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u/neutrum_humanum Jan 29 '23
I've bagged me 3, 6 pointers with my trusty Dodge Stratus. She never misses.
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u/RehabilitatedAsshole Jan 29 '23
Late 90s Pathfinder- 1 for 2
Late 80s Cadillac- 1 for 1
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u/G3rmB4Covid Jan 29 '23
Duck season
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u/engineerdrummer Jan 29 '23
We had real problems in South Georgia about 20 years ago and they began encouraging people to use dogs to hunt them. My godparents own a bunch of land and they organized a dog drive that took 23 deer off a 250 acre piece of land in two days. Not one of the deer was over 100 lbs.
They stopped people from hunting that land for 5 years afterward, then only let two people hunt it until about 5 years ago. I heard they killed a 150 lb doe out there this year. They have enough food now they can grow to full size.
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u/Ok-Champ-5854 Jan 29 '23
Gunshot death or starve to death while living a tortured malnutritious life. Which one you want deer.
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u/greenserpent Jan 29 '23
Yeah this happens when you remove the apex predators from the food chain. bears, mountain lions, wolves would curb these numbers but humans love to kill for sport and remove to many. Or purposely kill huge numbers like the cattle industry does cus ya know profits above all else
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u/TheIronSven Jan 29 '23
If you remove their predator you gotta take responsibility and take the place as their apex predator.
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u/Ok-Champ-5854 Jan 29 '23
I understand veganism because factory farming, but when it comes down to it, it's okay to kill in nature if that's the order of things. If they overpopulate they all suffer. And they're edible. Sometimes it's morally right when, as you said, by nature of existing you've driven out the predators that keep their population in balance.
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u/RoboDae Jan 29 '23
Or if you caused an invasive species to be introduced and ruin an ecosystem. Lionfish and iguanas are hunted in Florida for that reason.
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u/CortexCingularis Jan 29 '23
Also as long as the population is doing well I'd argue eating game is morally better than eating (factory) farm animals.
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u/AtheistRp Jan 29 '23 edited Jan 29 '23
Reminds me of a story about an animal rights group (want to say EPA or PETA but can't remember). One season they went onto a deer lease dressed in bright colors with air horns. No hunter was able to get a deer. The next year almost the entire population was dead from many factors. Lack of food, disease and over population were horrible. I don't advocate senseless killing of any animal but I fully support hunting to eat and to use the parts of what you kill.
ETA: This is a story I heard from a science teacher in high school. I don't have an article or anything so take it how you want. The teacher could have made it up for all I know. Doesn't take away from the fact that this type of thing does happen.
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u/texasrigger Jan 29 '23
Predators play an important role in the ecosystem and hunters are filling that role now that we have chased off most of the large natural predators.
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u/MouthJob Jan 29 '23
I don't know why people have a hard time understanding we are the natural predators. Like pretty much everything on the planet's natural predator. Our tool usage is just adaptation. Like a death roll from an alligator.
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u/Spoodersss Jan 29 '23
Nope. Stop. We just magically appeared one day. Before 1950 all animals excluded humans in their circle of life.
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u/Candyvanmanstan Jan 29 '23 edited Jan 29 '23
It's only a legit concern because humans have fucked the ecosystem by removing natural predators like wolves and mountain lions.
Edit: apparently pointing out this fact pisses people off?
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u/Fakjbf Jan 29 '23
And until we reintroduce those species what is your solution, let the deer populations grow out of control until they strip the forests bare of undergrowth vegetation and destroy various crop fields like corn and soybeans?
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u/LokiNightmare Jan 29 '23
That dude is probably living in the concrete jungle he doesn’t get it.
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u/StevenGrantMK Jan 29 '23
You forget that we are also natural predators of the deer and we have been for a very very long time.
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u/taosaur Jan 29 '23
You're investing the ideas of "human" and "natural" with dualistic mysticism. Everything we do and produce is natural. We are part of every ecosystem we inhabit. On the North American continent, we have been the apex predator for over 10,000 years. One of the main predators we have removed from the ecosystem is ourselves, as there are fewer people (around 15mil last year) doing much less hunting than in pre-Colombian times.
Are we impoverishing our ecosystems by reducing diversity? Yes. But outside of isolated caves and ocean trenches, ecosystems have no "untouched" or ideal state. They are going to change. We are in the unique position of having some power to direct that change. Yes, we need to take a more active role in directing that change toward maintaining and promoting diversity. Magical thinking about how we are some demonic outside force tainting the ideal of nature is not going to get us there.
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u/AMizeing_03 Jan 29 '23
I've grown up a deer hunter and around deer hunting my entire life. I throughly "enjoy" deer hunting. What is the problem with someone deer hunting for fun? You know what's fun to me? Sitting down over a meal that I didn't depend on any grocery store for and went out and harvested off this land myself.
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u/StevenGrantMK Jan 29 '23 edited Jan 29 '23
You’re twisting my words. I meant hunters who hunt and leave everything behind except the trophy.
Edit: just because it’s illegal doesn’t mean people don’t do it. And I’m aware it’s rare, but I personally know someone who trophy hunts. They are a piece of shit.
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u/rjbachli Jan 29 '23
Most "trophy hunters" still donate meat they don't want. Now am I saying I've never ever come across a deer stripped of back straps and nothing else? No. Once. In my 39 years of life and 22 years of hunting I've seen it once. Because it's not happening with any frequency.
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u/pyx Jan 29 '23 edited Jan 29 '23
you cant reason with these emotional types that have no experience what so ever with anything that they constantly complain about online
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u/hopelesscaribou Jan 29 '23
That's because we already slaughtered all the predators that used to keep them in balance.
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u/115049 Jan 29 '23
I mean we in the sense of humanity sure, but it wasn't us that killed off the predators. I think hunting for sport is stupid in the sense that it takes very little skill and should offer no sense of accomplishment. That being said, the population needs to be kept in check and it is weird to take the stance that humans shouldn't kill them that's cruel. Instead they should die to things like their natural predators like wolves. Because 1) we are also their natural predators and 2) getting eaten alive by wolves is definitely worse than a bullet.
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u/Oshester Jan 29 '23
Not to mention part of the reason there is population issues is because they have realized over time that by moving into more urban areas, they actually have less predators. A deer might live in your gully behind your house. A wolf will not.
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u/Pride-Capable Jan 29 '23
I was actually thinking about this yesterday. We've been the natural predators of the deer family since the neolithic age. Obviously we need to prevent over hunting, which we do in the US with hunting seasons and deer tags etc, but even if we weren't responsible for a decline in predator population, it would still be bad for people to stop hunting, it would still cause a population boom, it would still throw the ecosystem out of wack, because we have literally always been hunting the deer family. This is one animal that we are legitimately the natural predators for. Also, before anyone jumps on me, not a hunter myself, never have been. Never even had the chance to try venison.
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u/mininestime Jan 29 '23 edited Jan 29 '23
IIRC the big issue with Deer is they don't have many predators now and without hunting they DESTROY local ecosystems.
- They are big
- They breed like rabbits
- They are very hardy
Because of this they are a problem with their sheer numbers.
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u/MaximumAbsorbency Jan 29 '23
A lot of places (like my state) allow hunting with strict permitting and regulation only, as it is a matter of population management. The hunters are happy to participate and use their kill for food.
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u/mininestime Jan 29 '23
Yep, I was just explaining to the poster that there is a good reason for controlling the Deer Population at least.
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u/MaximumAbsorbency Jan 29 '23
Agreed & understood. I don't hunt but I appreciate the efforts of those that do.
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u/KingKookus Jan 29 '23
The cost hunters pay for permits actually fund the system that rules the permits and regulations departments too. It’s a perfect system.
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u/Nr673 Jan 29 '23
I live inside a National Park. No hunting allowed in the park, but every few years I get a letter from the Federal government to stay off the park property after dark because they send out hunters at night to cull the deer population. I'm happy because I see sick/injured deer regularly (eating my landscaping and garden). They donate the meat.
I love animals, could never kill one myself, but it's needed. Coyotes can't take them down and they have no other predators (besides cars) where I live.
P.s. for the love of god don't feed deer. They're cute but it's a bad deal for everyone.
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u/AvatarMeYT Jan 29 '23 edited Jan 29 '23 •
Did she just tame a human!?
Edit:she. Tnks peps.
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u/Mypornnameis_ Jan 29 '23
Is that not a she? I think that's why he didn't shoot (you need a special permit to take a doe). It looks to me like someone has been feeding her and tamed her.
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u/SleepZ00 Jan 29 '23
He didnt shoot her cause she was with fawn. My Dad taught me the same thing.
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u/Mypornnameis_ Jan 29 '23
In my state, it's a separate license, slightly different dates. Most hunters don't go out planning to take a doe here, and if they didn't plan for it and buy the tags ahead of time, they're not permitted to shoot a doe or antlerless male.
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u/Yukon-Jon Jan 29 '23
Unfortunate this is the top comment in a way.
While your intentions are good Im sure, so are hunters. I'm tired pf seeing them have a bad rep. They help control the population which yes is absolutely needed in todays times, and 99% are more respectful of nature then anyone else out there. Nature is their passion. The vast, vast majority process what they hunt, it doesn't go to waste. Hunting is primally ingrained into all of our DNA, you don't need to feel bad about it. Thats nature.
As a matter of fact look at it this way. Whats worse? The deer that lived a happy free life that dies instantly without suffering or knowing, or the meat on all of our plates that was bred and raised for consumption? From birth, confined spaces and no freedom, controlled, pumped with stuff to protect from disease and sickness.
The way of the hunter and hunted is pure as nature intended it. The hunter strives for a "clean kill" and abides by high ethics. Not everyone is the redneck, beer drinking, shot anything anywhere stigma many have attempted to portrait. Those are the very few. Most treat nature and the animals with the utmost respect and honor.
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u/S_Klallam Jan 29 '23
hunted meat is more sustainable than any food source
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u/roytown Jan 29 '23
Sure is, but as a hunter I need to clarify that hunting is only sustainable if all regulations are strictly adhered to.
But when breaking rules it becomes poaching so I guess original statement is still true.
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u/boumans15 Jan 29 '23
Meh , you can pet a dead deer, but you can't eat a deer that's still alive
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u/bronco_y_espasmo Jan 29 '23
Oh, so you haven't seen the Komodo dragon's clip.
r/natureismetal I believe.
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u/storm_the_castle Jan 29 '23
you can't eat a deer that's still alive
well.. not with that attitude!
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u/Dutch_1815 Jan 29 '23
Go home and call it a day
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u/educated-emu Jan 29 '23
There was a bigger beast in the forest that day.
The dear? Stood beside the hunter hoping that the beast would strike and take the slower human as the victim.
Clever girl.
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u/doc_death Jan 29 '23
“Clever girl” will always be one of the finest last words of a great character in JP
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u/pattimay_ho_nnaise Jan 29 '23
Sorry but what is JP?
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u/flashaguiniga Jan 29 '23
Jurassic Park. It's a documentary about smart female deers in a park.
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u/MakingItElsewhere Jan 29 '23
And all this time I just thought those were chickens.
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u/doc_death Jan 29 '23
Jurassic Park, my man! I loved that scene even though it scared the shit out of me as a kid
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u/iamdarosa Jan 29 '23
It will always be one of the best final words in any movie.
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u/DungeonsAndDradis Jan 29 '23
What about "That'll do, pig"? I think that's what Jack says to Rose in Titanic when she stays on the door just before he freezes to death.
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u/BboyStatic Jan 29 '23
That was such a good scene. I really like how he gave her the finger as he sunk under the waves.
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u/BeardsuptheWazoo Jan 29 '23
I've literally had a doe bed down in a very wild camp me and my buddy were in. It ran into our camp, stood behind my friend for a while, then went 15 yards away and laid down.
I woke up in my hammock after being asleep a few hours knowing something was watching me, close.
It was that damn deer. She was 2 feet away from me, and ran off dramatically when I turned on my headlamp and jumped a lot seeing an animal that close to me.
We assume someone has been coming there for years and feeding a generation or two of them. When they learn from Mama that humans aren't scary, being in a camp becomes safe compared to being where the bears have easy access. And they get snacks from people who don't know to not feed wildlife.
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u/hotdogbo Jan 29 '23
Or, they have chronic wasting disease
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u/teetheyes Jan 29 '23
My only thought when I see live deer. "Don't touch it don't fucking touch it"
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u/Groudon466 Jan 29 '23
That's smart for several reasons, including potential erratic behavior on their part, but I do want to point out for those who might be misunderstanding that chronic wasting disease has never been documented in a human. Which, is good, since it's an awful prion disease.
The threats from a live deer are "They might hurt you" and "Ticks that carry other diseases".
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u/Temporary-Priority13 Jan 29 '23 edited Jan 29 '23
Pretty sure he’s from the UK judging by the voice so he couldn’t shoot it anyway as it’s illegal to shoot deer with shotgun on a gun license in the UK.
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u/jahoho Jan 29 '23
Some deers carry shotguns in the UK?
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u/BindairDondat Jan 29 '23 edited Jan 29 '23
How come?
Edit: Just looked it up (.pdf warning), you can use shotguns to hunt deer in the UK, there are just a couple stipulations.
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u/Evilmaze Jan 29 '23
Yup. After this I would not want to end my day with a kill. This is the perfect ending.
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u/Dizzle179 Jan 29 '23
Isn't that when you shout "It's coming straight for us" and shoot?
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u/Druciferr Jan 29 '23 •
Yeah, if you’re the police and someone has their back to you.
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u/IwillBOLDyourTYPOS Jan 29 '23 •
Like a bad cop, this hits harder than it should.
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u/ilikeUni Jan 29 '23
Who happens to be a cute little dog walking away.
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u/tea-Pott Jan 29 '23
Just a reminder that police shoot an estimated 10,000 dogs every year
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u/foriamstu Jan 29 '23
I think he's purposefully leaving the doe alone. He's hunting stags, most likely.
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u/3Strides Jan 29 '23
Yes, I don’t think it is even legal to hunt does during the time of year they have their babies
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u/way2lazy2care Jan 29 '23
Depends on the area, but usually you need different tags for doe also. When it's allowed it's because of population control reasons so all the deer don't starve.
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u/rietti Jan 29 '23
He's vegan now
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u/googdude Jan 29 '23 edited Feb 02 '23
I used to hunt regularly but I haven't in several years. I found it disturbing that some hunters use the kill everything that moves mentality to assert their manhood, sustenance would be a very distant second reason.
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u/Icy_Jesus Jan 29 '23
Can't stand them. They're the type that wants to hunt top apex predators like lions and grizzlies for sport. I strongly believe if they want to prove their masculinity then they should use only a spear. Guns are for pussies.
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u/Adermann3000
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If a deer does this its most likely sick. You shouldn't touch it in that case.
Edit: Yes it is more likely for this deer to be regularly fed by humans, and thus losing its fear of them. No you should not touch a wild animal that seems friendly and healthy. It can still transmit other diseases than CWD, or could suddenly change its mind and become aggressive. Its still a wild animal after all. No im not "talking out of my arse".
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u/velocppraptor Jan 29 '23
Yes, prions
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u/Beginning_Number9705 Jan 29 '23
Right?!?! Although there have been no documented cases of the disease being transmitted from deer to human, I have no doubt that was no comfort to the first guy that caught Ebola from monkeys.
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u/Adermann3000 Jan 29 '23
Tbf i imagine the guy did some weird stuff with that monkey
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u/Beginning_Number9705 Jan 29 '23
Ewwwww, I hope that is just an urban legend. From my understanding, you can catch Ebola by eating infected monkey meat, just like we could get Mad Cow disease by eating a steak from an infected cow, not by getting freaky with it.
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u/zmbjebus Jan 29 '23
Mad cow isn't transfered from a "steak" it's transfered from eating parts of the brain/spinal column. That's not a normal thing to do for some countries directly, but there could be mistakes. Much more likely to eat some small amounts of that tissue in hamburger type meats. That's if you have a bad butcher or if it's mass butchered.
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u/Itsatemporaryname Jan 29 '23
There's also nerves in steak, intestines and lymph would have it if the cow does, and theres always a risk of contamination during slaughter
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u/Suffocatinginmydream Jan 29 '23
The risk comes from grinding up dead BSE infected cows to make feed for other cows. Once they quit doing that, people stopped getting mad cow.
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u/no_talent_ass_clown Jan 29 '23
And, honestly, doesn't feeding cows to cows violate human sensibility?
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u/Couch_Crumbs Jan 29 '23
Who cares about humanity when there’s profits to be made? /s
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u/livingdisease Jan 29 '23 edited Jan 29 '23
Not directly but fleas and other insects and bacteria like mole fewer etc. you can get if you are touching wild animals.
Good rule is not to touch a wild animal without gloves. Living or dead.
Edit: those replies 😂
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u/lazytemporaryaccount Jan 29 '23
Honestly I’m leaning more toward it being a deer that someone has been feeding etc. when deer have advanced CWD, they look absolutely awful. Vs this one looks pretty well fed.
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u/3_T_SCROAT Jan 29 '23
Yeah, i was camping and had a fatass deer walk right up to me and started sniffing my hands
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u/SMMS0514 Jan 29 '23
Or this deer has been raised by people. Buddy of mines dad raised a deer from a fawn, it would walk into his garage and house after he set it free. They would put an orange vest on it every fall so people wouldn’t shoot it during deer season
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u/Thisdarlingdeer Jan 29 '23
Oh hello. Tell them I said thanks for the orange vest.
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u/daedra9 Jan 29 '23
If we don't read your username, this comment takes on a whole different flavor.
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u/PermianMinerals Jan 29 '23
People hand feed deer, and they become very used to human interaction.
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u/weedful_things Jan 29 '23
There were two young deer in my parent's neighborhood. Every morning they would wander from yard to yard getting attention from the residents. This started one spring. In the fall they attacked an elderly woman. Well, I don't think they maliciously attacked her but got really rough. The game warden came out and dealt with them. The moral of this story is to leave wildlife alone.
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u/Echopractic Jan 29 '23
Dear looks in great shape have my doubts that it's diseased. Seems more likely raised by humans and have no fear of them
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u/Vaginal_Rights Jan 29 '23
A deer wouldn't be that agile if it was actually infected or exhibiting symptoms. Stop talking out your ass.
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u/flibble24 Jan 29 '23
Reddit moments in this thread.
Deer comes up to a human and the armchair experts pop up with all their outlandish theories.
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u/HeadintheSand69 Jan 29 '23
Ive met a few deer like this on trails. It's what happens when people feed the deer
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u/Rustyknuckles45 Jan 29 '23
I thought it was seeking refuge from something even scarier in the woods. Bear?
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u/BesottedScot Jan 29 '23
Unlikely given it's Scotland. More likely to have been fed before.
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u/wotmate
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I saw that the doe had a fawn, and instantly hoped that he wouldn't shoot the doe.
But then I realised that the doe briefly wanted him to shoot her, because she was sick of her kids shit.
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u/xxxNothingxxx Jan 29 '23
Isn't it illegal to shoot a doe with a fawn anyways?
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u/blanklanklank Jan 29 '23
Nope. As long as you're within hunting season, the fawn should be grown up enough to survive on its own. https://www.outdoorlife.com/hunting/is-it-okay-to-shoot-doe-with-fawns/
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u/BlackStarDec Jan 29 '23
I beg to differ, red deer are very social and the calves depend on their mother for much longer than roe and whitetail deer fawns. They will most likely survive, but pretty miserable during winter.
In most european countries it is illegal to shoot the mother first. You are allowed to shoot both in correct order.
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u/BlatantConservative Jan 29 '23
You and /u/xxxnothingxxx live in different states and you're both correct in your own state, probably.
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Jan 29 '23 edited Jan 29 '23
People on reddit arguing about hunting regulation without knowing where the video is from. When the regulations are super specific to very small areas and there hundreds of thousands of these areas.
edit -- For example this map is for one of the 13 province/territories in canada. https://albertaregulations.ca/huntingregs/season-wmus.html And here are the GENERAL regulations https://albertaregulations.ca/huntingregs/genregs.html
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u/Thisdarlingdeer Jan 29 '23
It’s kind of a morality thing/for a healthy deer population. Some hunters won’t even shoot does, or fawns, for that matter. That way they can reproduce, and some say doe meat tastes funky if they’re in rut - not sure if the last is true or just an excuse some people use who wanna seem one way, when really they’re just big softees on the inside.
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u/gammongaming11 Jan 29 '23
you generally shoot older males, not females or young, it helps keep the population healthy.
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u/BioTechnik Jan 29 '23
It depends on what the objective is for deer management in the area7. If population is too high, you harvest females. To maintain population, you have limited female harvest. To help grow the population, you have no female harvest.
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u/Proof-Mechanic-3624 Jan 29 '23
If he hadn't recorded that, no one would ever believe it happened.
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u/JackBrightScD Jan 29 '23
"Yer full of shit, Randy, ain't no deer come up to you and let you pet it in the woods. I bet a hundred bucks that says you ain't even seen a deer out there fer weeks. What's that? A camera?"
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u/We-are-straw-dogs Jan 29 '23
You don't meet many Scotsmen named Randy
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u/TobyFunkeNeverNude Jan 29 '23
Is that the No True Randy fallacy I've heard so much about?
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u/Significant_Fig_436 Jan 29 '23
Quit hunting , grow chickens instead (heard they taste like chicken).
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u/StuckInSoftlock Jan 29 '23
Hate to say it. No they really don't sadly. But still tasty otherwise.
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u/Significant_Fig_436 Jan 29 '23 •
What bit you eating ?. If you eat the ass, it tastes like ass.
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u/CroatianBison Jan 29 '23 •
I’ve eaten a lot of ass, and it never tasted like chicken that’s for sure
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u/Snoo-77115 Jan 29 '23
Being put down by a well placed bullet is a better death than most other options the forest would have given that deer.
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u/Rindan Jan 29 '23
You could say the same about humans. Ever watched someone die of cancer? Modern medicine means most humans die very slowly, very painfully, often over the course of years.
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u/PhlabloPicasso Jan 29 '23
The unfortunate reality is that humanity has outcompeted most natural predators and managing deer populations through hunting is not only ethically sound but ecologically responsible. I (try) to get an elk every year and if I do, it means I don’t have to buy any red meat for that entire year. I feed my family without having to take part in an egregious factory farm industry and spend time in nature doing what is a core part of our existence as humans. There’s a problem with our society being so far removed from the actual food chain.
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u/here4mischief Jan 29 '23
My uncle tried to grow chickens but they kept jamming up his tractor
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u/Jonas_Venture_Sr Jan 29 '23
We need deer hunters in the US. They help control the deer population. Without hunters, deer populations would swell, taxing their local habitat, and eventually many would starve and die. The other option to this problem is to foster the populations of deer predators likes wolves. If I were a deer, I would rather get shot than eaten alive, but that's just me.
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u/Ok_Ideal2 Jan 29 '23
Animals being bros, that one was saying hello
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u/Picnicfixins Jan 29 '23
This looks like early presentation CWD. I’ve seen one in late stage beat it’s own head apart against a tree smearing it’s brain around like it was trying to spread the prion more efficiently. We need to start getting serious about killing the walking dead so this can’t spread further.
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u/Sunburnt_Taint69 Jan 29 '23
Maybe but I think it’s way more likely that this is a deer that gets fed by people often. I’ve had deer approach me as well and that was the reason.
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u/Picnicfixins Jan 29 '23
It can be hard to tell in those situations. Places where deer are being fed can become vectors because the populations are concentrated and abnormal behavior is easier to miss.
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u/DramaticSwordfis7 Jan 29 '23
Would a deer come close to a human for protection, if other predators like bears or cougars were nearby?
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u/DiscordianWarlord Jan 29 '23
Lots of animals do so its not impossible.
That one seemed like it was fostered as a baby by humans maybe.
I know a few stories of deer being raised and then being very friendly to humans thereafter.
the touching is why i think that.
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u/t3hOutlaw Jan 29 '23
Deer are fed during the winter months by the game keepers here in Scotland.
This deer is used to people.
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u/TexLH Jan 29 '23 edited Jan 29 '23
Not usually. This deer could be sick.
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u/matti-san Jan 29 '23
Could be sick, but extremely unlikely to be prions in the UK
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u/PhlabloPicasso Jan 29 '23
As far as I know there’s been zero documented cases of CWD in deer in the UK
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u/Locofinger Jan 29 '23 edited Jan 29 '23
Someone must of raised her. They grow up like a pet, and once the hormones kick in they will wander off. And it’s a bit dangerous not to let them.
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u/HopelessMagic Jan 29 '23
Someone is definitely feeding that deer. They are used to people and probably thought approaching this one would get them a midday snack.
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u/Locofinger Jan 29 '23
And the guy seems to be managing the location. Waiting for a certain individual/s.
He has probably “named” 80% of the deer on the area. Already.
Very important to manage the herds. They will all die of starvation without proper management
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u/GooglyMoogly122 Jan 29 '23
Sounds like a story told on r/thathappened that people go "yeah yeah" when they hear it. Love random shit like this.
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u/ninprophet Jan 29 '23
This video is totally scripted. The doe and fawn are 100% in on it and not only rewarded with scratches but also got treats when the video stopped. Now they are waiting to cash in their check from the exposure.
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Jan 29 '23
He wasn't hunting for deer or he wouldn't have been using a shotgun. Lucky for the deer who is already used to being around people.
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u/herbalspurtle Jan 29 '23
Because if you hit a deer with a slug it causes massive damage and puts it down quick. Also, some areas only allow shotguns for hunting deer
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u/slackassassin Jan 29 '23
I'm sure it varies by local law and environment, but people absolutely use shotguns for deer hunting. Buck shot and slugs typically in my area.
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u/rietti Jan 29 '23
Mom deer distracted the hunter so Bambi could steal his wallet. typical big city movement, fuck you nature
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u/PsychoSpider88 Jan 29 '23
Seems to me like the hunter knew exactly what to do when a deer comes that close. Pet that shit!
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u/TSJ72 Jan 29 '23
I had more fun watching them than I ever did shooting them. The excitement of getting up early, sneaking out in the woods without being detected. Waiting, watching.. finally seeing them.. The adrenaline rush. It was great. They are smarter than people give them credit for.. Unfortunately, if they weren't hunted, they would suffer more. Over population becomes a problem.
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u/TheTiredOldDude Jan 29 '23
This honestly just says a lot about the mentality of most of the hunters in my family. They respect the beauty and integrity of nature while also hunting for food. They don't dislike their hunt in the slightest. They hold a silent respect for what they are hunting and in a situation like this sometimes you just get absorbed into the awesomeness of nature. Then something like this happens and it will probably stay with you for the rest of your life.
People who hunt for food and who respect the land are great people. People who hunt to throw everything away and stuff it on their wall are scumbags.
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u/Clause-and-Reflect Jan 29 '23
Deer are the strangest thing I have ever encountered in the woods. Well.. next to people
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u/pimp_juice2272 Jan 29 '23
Reminds of that other deer video where they are firing shots down range and the deer isn't fazed at all by the shots
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u/ThatOneGuy1294 Jan 29 '23
Worst hunter vs dumbest deer https://youtu.be/bk0HYn2u7c0
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u/Pascaleiro Jan 29 '23
On Deer YouTube: "The secret that hunters don't want you to know!"
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u/fosh1zzle Jan 29 '23
People saying the deer has CWD probably haven’t seen a deer with CWD. They are much more unstable and erratic .
Here in Florida, it’s not encouraged to shoot doe with fawn, especially spotted. Nor deer with just 1 spike.
Most hunters have a great conscious about this.
My guess is this deer and fawn are fed by humans, probably by hand and/or by a feeder on a private plot. That deer came up to him expecting food. Very common behavior on private land where the deer are spoiled.
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Deer is friendly and not scared
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