Ive heard unemployment pays pretty good when u can work the system and stay on it half the year too

Have shot deer in Virginia,West Virginia,North Carolina,Pa,Michigan,Conn,Mass,Vermont,New Hampshire,Maryland,and New Jersey as well as Maine.

It sure does.I would work 4 to 5 union nuclear shutdowns for 3 to 4 weeks each, then stop off in Mass on my way home from the last job around Sept to draw unemployment the rest of the year always having the falls and winters off.

Holy buckets!!! That's a lot of deer!!

It was easy CoyoteCowboy.In those blue ridge mountains with all those gullys and ravines all those hunters would be parked down below in good areas waiting on daylight to arrive.I would already be up above them in my treestand watching the deers escape routes.I would hear the doors shutting,etc. at daylight and here would come the deer.

Surprised it is not more. I hunt with some forester collogues that manage large timber holdings. One parcel, we take on average of 50 deer a season, almost all does.
I take 3 doe in my timber and travel to PA and get 2-4 deer at the farm.
All this hunting and it does not seem to put a dent in the population.

Thank you

Not to argue the point but Virginia has a 6 per year bag limit. Even using urban bonus tags no more than 6. You must’ve been poaching Mike you say we killed 50. Different state and sounds like several guys. You killed 7 at most. I’m a numbers guy.
Bruce but if you started at 15 I doubt the herd was that big that bag limits allowed you to legally kill 12 per
But I’m sure you have killed your share. Great job

Not true.You can keep buying tags for private land

Bruce T … opening day … blueridge mountains 1985

Was that a morning hunt? Must have really had those escape routes covered well.

Only one trailer load? Big deal. Probably took you all day.

Well Bruce, I'm glad you decided not to come to Alaska to trap wolverine. There might not be any left.

LOL AV.



Wait, Bruce... are you bragging about being supported by the taxpayer for half of the year so you can run around hunting and trapping?

The forester gets DMP's from NYSDEC and strict records are kept on sex and age. The hunters have a buck tag and 2 doe tags along with the DMP's. We usually have 10 to 12 guys hunting the timber.

Nice stout Maine white-tails, even the does are hefty!

That sounds logical. 5 per hunter to get the 50 deer

Crop tag hunters around here kill 5 per day easy.

Wait, Bruce... are you bragging about being supported by the taxpayer for half of the year so you can run around hunting and trapping?
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They all can justify their entitlement to what others worked for.

I dont really think there's was much to worry about.....there's a reappearing pattern here, I'm not going to be the spoiler but u will probably be able to read about it in the book he's planning to write

Might be doable........would be hard to eat them to completion at that rate