I respect the "if I don't eat it, I don't shoot it crowd."

But, I give deer meat away all the time. There is no way my family and I could ever eat as much as we kill. So, I have several families that are not very well placed economically that are overjoyed when I give them a deer. It makes their day, and week, to have some extra meat in the house that they would otherwise not have.

What is the difference here? I have traveled to allot of third world countries, nothing goes to waste. Every scrap of meat, every shard of bone gets used. I am certain that the elephant meat, bones and all went to very good use. It is all a matter of perspective.

OBTW, if you want to get all up in your back and accuse me and my sons for killing too many deer, we hunt on a military reservation that requires the deer to be culled. We have way too many and must thin the herd every year. We do not shoot over our limit, but with three bucks and three does plus two extra with a bow a year, that makes for allot of deer.

Hank