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We don't waste any..If we don't need they go to families in the area that do need them...I process my own, have my own grinder and turn alot into hamburger, alot of people don't know what do do with a whole ham, but they can make chili, spaghetti, tacos, etc...btw...We kill about 40-50 on our farms, have for 10-12 years...How does that grab you???:)

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Some where in the 100-200 range. I've lost count, but my average is about 5 per season.

With a bow, I know exactly - 11.

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Only 14. Twelve in the past seven years, including net scores of 105,109,117,129,and 140. All public land in MT -12 rifle, 2 bow.

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Been hunting 10 years have taken a total of 16.6 bucks and 10 does.

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We usually eat 5 or 6 deer a year. We make lots of jerky and smoke some too.

I give alot away to relatives. My grandmother,and aunt love venison, but they don't hunt.

I also have several co workers, that always ask, if I get an extra deer, they'd like to have one.

On the property we hunt now, we usually give the land owner a deer or two. He doesn't hunt, but loves deer meat. I think it is a fair exchange considering that between me and the kids, we usually get 4 or 5 off his land. None of the other hunters even offer. He once told me he was considering posting his land but he'd letus hunt it. He is always grateful when he gets a deer. I wish he would post it, but he hasn't yet.

When I use to hunt West Virginia, you could legally take 7 deer a year then. There were lots of deer and usually by noon, on the first day, everyone got there buck. They were small but they were legal.

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another

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one more of me, my daughter and dad in PA.

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To those whom live and hunt areas where the limits are high because of over population, or whom hunt many states so as to be able to havest that many, I appologize if you tookmy questionas against you.

But I can't help but consider that there are those who may come across these sites and find such statements as proof that hunters are interested in nothing more than killing as many animals as they can.
And for those who are new to the sport, and don't realize that it may be a case of "feeding the whole family" and/or being in an area where it is legal and needed to havest 2 per day for the entire season, to realize that it is not what they may be able to expect.

(heck, I've helped a few farmers with cull-permits before myself, and I get my bonus tags every year so I can harvest my 2 or 3 that we are allowed. I'm not talking about when it's right, I just am trying to consider how it sounds.)

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I can see your point.

The anti hunting public are on the other side of the fence anyway. Yes ,they consider all hunters, blood thirsty killers, whether they kill one deer or 10 deer a year.

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2 deer in 2 years a doe and a buck