It becomes easy to get this way. I have talked to several folks who were anti-hunter because deer are so cute. Several maybe needs to be defined as dozens. Now those very same people want the deer brought back under control.

When any animal gets over populated such as deer in so many areas, they become nothing short of a nuisance, very distructive, a disease threat and lets not leave out a life threat. To sum it all up they loose their popularity quickly.

I ask you how many special tags are issued today vs only ten years ago. My answer is not nearly enough in most areas. So far this year there has been 60 speacial tags bragged about on this hunting site. Those issued are distributed amoungst three people and a few lucky friends. Don't think I'm complaining about being left out. I wouldn't want anything to do with those tick infested creatures until after next Fall's cold spell. Enjoy your hunting.

What I will point out is it does boils down to too many deer and not enough hunters. Limits need to be raised and possibly go to unlimited. More available hunting days need to be opened up. Land should also be opened up on the basis if it isn't posted bow hunters can hunt there legally, public or private (I believe at least one county in NC has this law). Only when the deer population is brought back under control will the deer go from nuisance to cute again in these areas.

I love bow hunting to no end. Ethically I should be filling out all of my tags to get this problem under control. On the flip side ethically I shouldn't shoot more then I can possibly clean. Well I think the happy medium for me is to shoot the bambis when I want meat to process. If you say just donate the deer, I have no problem with that. You are still responsible to procees the deer half way. They only take hind qrts,shoulders and back straps.

Now I'm back to the theme of this thread "To gut or not to gut?"