Just the fat by itself tastes like crap but it renders down to some of the best lard you can get anywhere.

"I'm not sure I could enjoy getting so many tags so easily. I like the challenge of getting the tag, but especially trying to get a mature buck on millions of acre's of public land. I get bored easily when something is too easy."

You can make the hunting in VA as easy or as hard as you want. Nothing stops people from hunting public land. There are millions of acres of that too in the Natl Forests etc... But the point of the damage tags isn't sport, it is preventing crop damage. Besides, for the most part the Southern states have a lot more deer than any other area of the country. Winterkill isn't a problem and they grow crops pretty much year round. Things are done differently down here than in my native CO.

By the time a serious deer hunter in the South turns 25 years old he/she will probably have racked up at least 30 or 40 deer. How long would it take the average hunter in CO or WY to get that many? I know I grew up in CO and I didn't fill every deer tag I held during those short seasons. In VA you can hunt deer from late Sept until the end of Feb.