RE: A SERIOUS ISSUE
Everywhere I'm familiar with that has crop damage permits does NOT allow the carcass to be utilized, you have to leave it where it's shot.
Here in MD and NJ they shoot them in the guts with .222 and such so they run back and die in the woods, and don't litter up the fields with dead deer.
Disgusting.
A man has to make a living, but shooting does in July so their fawns definitely die, or shooting them in the guts so they don't die in the fieled, makes you want to take a permit out on the shooter.
I know quite a few farms where the land is leased to hunters, and they have no idea about the deer shot during the summer by the landowner.
"In heaven, even the fish have antlers"