ORIGINAL: BTBowhunter
look how much GRANT money comes in from these groups.
What Grant money are you talking about Sproul? Do you have knowledge of actual grants you can share with us?
BTW, at least one of those you listed is pure myth, BS , urban legend, or whatever you wanna call it and It's been proven over and over here. The insurance industry, which I retired from after 30 years never once spent a dime on deer management one way or another. I worked with dozens of Insurance companies and never once heard a peep about our deer claims in PA.
You see, insurance companies are like the racetrack or the casino. They have things like deer claims statistically figured out and anything thatcauses claims that they can figure out will make them money. Just like the casino never loses, the insurance companies never lose on things like deer claims. Big natural disasters and man made terrorist attacks only make them panic because they cant adequately plan and charge for them.
But deer claims=$$$profits$$$ for insurance companies. It wouldn't be politicallly correct for them to say it publicly but if they had a position, they'd be on the side of more deer, therefore more claims, and more premiums charged and more profits made!
wco told me about grant money,he is on here, i forgot his intials,i think like rwj or something.
next, i was with SENATOR,yes, i do have that influence but not as much now.
he is big insurance senator too,he backs them and his family is in it bigtime too.
he has broughtthat up many times behind closed door meetings in harrisburg.
my local state farm agent told me many times that state farm was pushing to have deer reduced in pa.
he hunts too and ALSO WANTED them kiled off.
he talked just like the DCNR boys do about deer.
you cant blame insurance co. for doing what they can to deer.
with all the FRAUD info that is given them,over 50% of wrecks that say they MISSED a deer ,never did.
they were speeding,fixing eye lases,cell phones,drunk,yelling at kids,falling asleep.
of course, you could say because you were in the insurance business, i am wrong but i feel the deer get blamed for too many accidents that they did not happen.