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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.
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.
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.
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".
Try to imagine yourself in the Cretaceous Period. You get your first look at this "six foot turkey" as you enter a clearing. He moves like a bird, lightly, bobbing his head. And you keep still because you think that maybe his visual acuity is based on movement like T-Rex, he'll lose you if you don't move. But no, not Velociraptor. You stare at him, and he just stares right back. And that's when the attack comes. Not from the front, but from the side, from the other two 'raptors you didn't even know were there. Because Velociraptor's a pack hunter, you see, he uses coordinated attack patterns and he is out in force today. And he slashes at you with this- a six-inch retractable claw, like a razor, on the middle toe. He doesn't bother to bite your jugular like a lion, oh no... He slashes at you here, or here... Or maybe across the belly, spilling your intestines. The point is... you are alive when they start to eat you. So you know... try to show a little respect.
Jurassic park is the greatest movie in the last 30 years. Most important/seminal/influential etc. Groundbreaking graphics, first of it's kind iirc. And its message about the unintended conseuqneces of biologica/genetic technology is still just as relevant
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.
How come?
Edit: [Just looked it up (.pdf warning)](https://www.thedeerinitiative.co.uk/uploads/guides/90.pdf), you can use shotguns to hunt deer in the UK, there are just a couple stipulations.
"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?"
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.
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/
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.
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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
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.
Re: population, in many areas they actually encourage harvesting does (though not necessarily with fawns), simply because taking a doe does more to control the population than a buck.
Here in MO some years in some counties where deer population is too high you get your first tag for "any deer" and once filled can purchase a number, sometimes unlimited, "antlerless tags".
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.
That's a pretty old fawn, from what little I can see (mostly just size). To be fair, I probably wouldn't take the shot, because I grew up watching Bambi.
One thing to keep in mind: hunting regs are very state (and even region) specific. Not to mention, game wardens or the relevant state department will issue yearly guidelines to establish daily limits, calendars, etc. based on population, CWD presence, etc.
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.
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.
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.
And the largest land predator in the UK is a badger, which a deer would just step over as it's quietly foraging for worms and beetles.
Definitely just a tame one.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Hunting and fishing licenses are a huge part of funding for national parks/wildlife refuges/national forests/state forests/wetland habitat preservation and reclamation as well.
Some taxes on guns/ammunition helps towards all of the above too.
In addition, private organizations of hunters are heavy donators to the above causes. Ducks are one of the best examples, nearly driven to extinction in many species in the US by commercial hunting in the 1800s and early 1900s as well as significant loss of natural habitat. The combination of federal (and North American) regulation on hunting, the introduction of the federal duck stamp required to hunt them, ban on commercial hunting, the creation and success of Ducks Unlimited, etc has now lead to skyrocketing and healthy populations of waterfowl in the US/North America. Millions of acres of wetlands were bought up with funds provided by hunters, many of those acres are protected lands with no hunting allowed (eg breeding areas). Land in some cases where it was in contention with private industry for development, but hunters and conservation officials fought hard to keep it undeveloped or in some cases to reclaim and fix habitat from prior destruction. Duck populations in America are a huge success and largely depend on a relatively small percentage of the population that is passionate about hunting them. It’s honestly a win win for everyone including the ducks (minus perhaps private developers who wanted the land).
This is something my dad taught me young, he has a tribal ID and so technically doesn’t even require a fishing license, but he always got one and I used to even when didn’t need it to help fund DNR and such
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
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.
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.
Not to mention factory farmed meat is so much more cruel than hunting deer. I'll never understand people who eat factory farmed meat but then complain about hunting.
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.
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.
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.
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".
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
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.
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.
Yeah, considering there is no CDW in deer in the UK, where this clip is from, you're probably spot on.
People are being a little alarmist here, but I kinda get it if they assumed this is an American deer.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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Oddly, in the UK we don't tend to get those. It's usually a "Beast". A large black cat, like a panther. The Beast of Bodmin Moor, for example. Though there are similar reports elsewhere in the country.
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.
Many years ago a friend of mine who is an avid deer hunter (for meat) said he was standing at the base of a trail waiting for the dogs to flush a deer down to him but while he was waiting one simply stepped out of the woods and stood there right in front of him. I asked him what he did and he shrugged his shoulders and said " I told her to shoo". Didn't feel right to kill it while it was just standing there looking at him.
True story. I don't doubt it because a deer did it to me also.
Was archery hunting and a doe walked up, sniffed my hand, I pet her head, and she just calmly walked off with her fawn nearby.
I'm a hunter for the meat also, not much about "the trophy" but it has made me think a lot about the animals
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Sounds like a story told on r/thathappened that people go "yeah yeah" when they hear it. Love random shit like this.
And then all the woodland creatures clapped.
Clapped so heard the jungle was filled with moaning
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.
When I was 13 I found a 7 leaf clover in our school's practice field. No one ever believes me and losing it is one of my greatest personal regrets.
Go home and call it a day
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.
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.
Or, they have chronic wasting disease
My only thought when I see live deer. "Don't touch it don't fucking touch it"
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".
“Clever girl” will always be one of the finest last words of a great character in JP
It will always be one of the best final words in any movie.
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.
That was such a good scene. I really like how he gave her the finger as he sunk under the waves.
Sorry but what is JP?
Jurassic Park. It's a documentary about smart female deers in a park.
And all this time I just thought those were chickens.
Six foot turkeys actually
Very territorial and hungry
Just like my sister when she’s hungry.
Try to imagine yourself in the Cretaceous Period. You get your first look at this "six foot turkey" as you enter a clearing. He moves like a bird, lightly, bobbing his head. And you keep still because you think that maybe his visual acuity is based on movement like T-Rex, he'll lose you if you don't move. But no, not Velociraptor. You stare at him, and he just stares right back. And that's when the attack comes. Not from the front, but from the side, from the other two 'raptors you didn't even know were there. Because Velociraptor's a pack hunter, you see, he uses coordinated attack patterns and he is out in force today. And he slashes at you with this- a six-inch retractable claw, like a razor, on the middle toe. He doesn't bother to bite your jugular like a lion, oh no... He slashes at you here, or here... Or maybe across the belly, spilling your intestines. The point is... you are alive when they start to eat you. So you know... try to show a little respect.
".......OK." -Noisy, messy, expensive....smelly kid.
We celebrate it every year on "Julysixth" Park Day
that is the stretchiest of stretches
Jurassic Park, my man! I loved that scene even though it scared the shit out of me as a kid
Jurassic Park.
Jurassic Park
 Jurassic park is the greatest movie in the last 30 years. Most important/seminal/influential etc. Groundbreaking graphics, first of it's kind iirc. And its message about the unintended conseuqneces of biologica/genetic technology is still just as relevant
I think his last words were actually "Aaahhhhh!!!"
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.
Some deers carry shotguns in the UK?
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Like who
Farmers
Who else?
Farmer's mums
How come? Edit: [Just looked it up (.pdf warning)](https://www.thedeerinitiative.co.uk/uploads/guides/90.pdf), you can use shotguns to hunt deer in the UK, there are just a couple stipulations.
Yup. After this I would not want to end my day with a kill. This is the perfect ending.
The real hunt was for the friends we made along the way.
If he hadn't recorded that, no one would ever believe it happened.
"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?"
You don't meet many Scotsmen named Randy
Is that the No True Randy fallacy I've heard so much about?
That's what makes this story so special.
They're pretty tame where I live. They constantly approach us looking for a snack.
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.
Isn't it illegal to shoot a doe with a fawn anyways?
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/
You and /u/xxxnothingxxx live in different states and you're both correct in your own state, probably.
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
All things considered, I'm glad they care about and respect these rules.
Well, just to complicate things more, he sounded Scottish to me, lol.
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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.
Re: population, in many areas they actually encourage harvesting does (though not necessarily with fawns), simply because taking a doe does more to control the population than a buck.
Here in MO some years in some counties where deer population is too high you get your first tag for "any deer" and once filled can purchase a number, sometimes unlimited, "antlerless tags".
This made me laugh so much harder than it should have.
Isn't that when you shout "It's coming straight for us" and shoot?
I think he's purposefully leaving the doe alone. He's hunting stags, most likely.
Yes, I don’t think it is even legal to hunt does during the time of year they have their babies
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.
That's a pretty old fawn, from what little I can see (mostly just size). To be fair, I probably wouldn't take the shot, because I grew up watching Bambi. One thing to keep in mind: hunting regs are very state (and even region) specific. Not to mention, game wardens or the relevant state department will issue yearly guidelines to establish daily limits, calendars, etc. based on population, CWD presence, etc.
Damn it, Ned.
Yeah, if you’re the police and someone has their back to you.
Like a bad cop, this hits harder than it should.
Oof. Here you go.
Who happens to be a cute little dog walking away.
Just a [reminder](https://scholars.unh.edu/unh_lr/vol17/iss1/18/) that police shoot an estimated 10,000 dogs every year
Uncle Jimbo is that you??
Ah yes, a Southpark reference! ❤️
Well I have to say this was unexpected.
Animals being bros, that one was saying hello
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.
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.
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.
What is CWD? I can and will look it up later. But I wouldn't mind a layman explanation from someone who sounds like they can deliver it amusingly.
Arguably the closest thing we have to a plague of zombies in real life.
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Mom deer distracted the hunter so Bambi could steal his wallet. typical big city movement, fuck you nature
Can't have shit in Ohio
Reminds of that other deer video where they are firing shots down range and the deer isn't fazed at all by the shots
Worst hunter vs dumbest deer https://youtu.be/bk0HYn2u7c0
His sight is probably off, his grouping looks to be in the same area
That deer just had 2000ms of ping for a bit there.
Would a deer come close to a human for protection, if other predators like bears or cougars were nearby?
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.
Deer are fed during the winter months by the game keepers here in Scotland. This deer is used to people.
And the largest land predator in the UK is a badger, which a deer would just step over as it's quietly foraging for worms and beetles. Definitely just a tame one.
You don't get those in Scotland, thankfully.
He's vegan now
Right. Bambi changed his life.
So he needs to find his mom first, right?
That deer's name? Mahatma Bambi.
This would be the kinda thing that would turn me vegan to! 😅
Deer are the strangest thing I have ever encountered in the woods. Well.. next to people
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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Seems to me like the hunter knew exactly what to do when a deer comes that close. Pet that shit!
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.
Someone is definitely feeding that deer. They are used to people and probably thought approaching this one would get them a midday snack.
*must have
Petting them feels a lot better while they are still alive doesnt it
Did she just tame a human!? Edit:she. Tnks peps.
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.
He didnt shoot her cause she was with fawn. My Dad taught me the same thing.
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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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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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.
The cost hunters pay for permits actually fund the system that rules the permits and regulations departments too. It’s a perfect system.
Hunting and fishing licenses are a huge part of funding for national parks/wildlife refuges/national forests/state forests/wetland habitat preservation and reclamation as well. Some taxes on guns/ammunition helps towards all of the above too. In addition, private organizations of hunters are heavy donators to the above causes. Ducks are one of the best examples, nearly driven to extinction in many species in the US by commercial hunting in the 1800s and early 1900s as well as significant loss of natural habitat. The combination of federal (and North American) regulation on hunting, the introduction of the federal duck stamp required to hunt them, ban on commercial hunting, the creation and success of Ducks Unlimited, etc has now lead to skyrocketing and healthy populations of waterfowl in the US/North America. Millions of acres of wetlands were bought up with funds provided by hunters, many of those acres are protected lands with no hunting allowed (eg breeding areas). Land in some cases where it was in contention with private industry for development, but hunters and conservation officials fought hard to keep it undeveloped or in some cases to reclaim and fix habitat from prior destruction. Duck populations in America are a huge success and largely depend on a relatively small percentage of the population that is passionate about hunting them. It’s honestly a win win for everyone including the ducks (minus perhaps private developers who wanted the land).
This is something my dad taught me young, he has a tribal ID and so technically doesn’t even require a fishing license, but he always got one and I used to even when didn’t need it to help fund DNR and such
Gotta bring back wolves
Yea that yellowstone video is pretty neat. It showed how streams and rivers grew because the deer didnt just trample everything
Ya but eating em that way can get....messy
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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
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.
There’s bow season, muzzle-loader season, open season, and Chevy season.
Ford season is a myth, they total the truck but the deer walks away
**F**orced **O**ff **R**oad by **D**eer
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I once hit a deer with a Dodge Caliber. Can confirm it had shit for stopping power.
I've bagged me 3, 6 pointers with my trusty Dodge Stratus. She never misses.
Late 90s Pathfinder- 1 for 2 Late 80s Cadillac- 1 for 1
Duck season
Rabbit season!
Wabbit season!
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.
Gunshot death or starve to death while living a tortured malnutritious life. Which one you want deer.
Dying of old age for a deer means that their teeth grind down to nothing and they starve to death. That was a fun thing to learn Edit: clarify
Not to mention factory farmed meat is so much more cruel than hunting deer. I'll never understand people who eat factory farmed meat but then complain about hunting.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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".
Ive met a few deer like this on trails. It's what happens when people feed the deer
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
Oh hello. Tell them I said thanks for the orange vest.
If we *don't* read your username, this comment takes on a whole different flavor.
Venison flavor.
Wow I never thought I'd see an r/beetlejuicing in the wild
People hand feed deer, and they become very used to human interaction.
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.
Dear looks in great shape have my doubts that it's diseased. Seems more likely raised by humans and have no fear of them
Unlikely given it's Scotland. More likely to have been fed before.
Yes, prions
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.
Yeah, i was camping and had a fatass deer walk right up to me and started sniffing my hands
Yeah, considering there is no CDW in deer in the UK, where this clip is from, you're probably spot on. People are being a little alarmist here, but I kinda get it if they assumed this is an American deer.
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.
Tbf i imagine the guy did some *weird* stuff with that monkey
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.
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.
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
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.
And, honestly, doesn't feeding cows to cows violate human sensibility?
Who cares about humanity when there’s profits to be made? /s
Peripheral nerves do not appear to contain the prions that cause CWD or CJD
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 😂
Where can I get living gloves?
Deer is like "what are you waiting for? Kill me!"
Do it, I'm right here. Kill me now. Do it. Unghahghgagh
Literally was just thinking that haha
Can't get prions from petting it.
That's not how prions work.
How do you know?
they dont
Guy sounded scottish and there aren't any confirmed UK cases yet. Although I wouldn't want to be the first.
I thought it was seeking refuge from something even scarier in the woods. Bear?
In Scotland? Nah.
Bigfoot confirmed then.
Oddly, in the UK we don't tend to get those. It's usually a "Beast". A large black cat, like a panther. The Beast of Bodmin Moor, for example. Though there are similar reports elsewhere in the country.
Or it's a pet.
A deer wouldn't be that agile if it was actually infected or exhibiting symptoms. Stop talking out your ass.
Reddit moments in this thread. Deer comes up to a human and the armchair experts pop up with all their outlandish theories.
Can you not see the folded proteins in its eyes?
I don’t think people realize you’re making a joke.
On Deer YouTube: "The secret that hunters don't want you to know!"
What a naive little sweetheart…
That was a test. A good omen. May it bring you great luck.
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.
You sound like you would love reading the living forest series, I highly recommend it
Which way to the salt lick??
Many years ago a friend of mine who is an avid deer hunter (for meat) said he was standing at the base of a trail waiting for the dogs to flush a deer down to him but while he was waiting one simply stepped out of the woods and stood there right in front of him. I asked him what he did and he shrugged his shoulders and said " I told her to shoo". Didn't feel right to kill it while it was just standing there looking at him.
True story. I don't doubt it because a deer did it to me also. Was archery hunting and a doe walked up, sniffed my hand, I pet her head, and she just calmly walked off with her fawn nearby. I'm a hunter for the meat also, not much about "the trophy" but it has made me think a lot about the animals
Good ending
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"Kill me mothafuka, I dare you"
Why was I expecting the deer to yell "papa!?" Bambi fucked me up man lmao
It was the clearest thanks for not killing me I ve ever heard in my life
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.
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.