Deer

[marksctm]

I remember years ago in New York State when State Troopers and game wardens routinely delivered road dead and confiscated deer to prisons and old age homes. No more. Now the farms adjacent to the prisons, used prisoners and delivered all there produce directly to the prisons have been shut down. The cost of feeding prisoners has gone up about five times and the farmers who ran the farms are scrabbling to find work.

John

Here, In at least my part of Ohio, a lot, If not all go to food banks. Even a large growing number of hunters can donate there dear to designated stations for food banks, I'm in zone B where you can bag no more than 4 dear in a season.

 

[oldsouth]

I'd like to say that my "luck" depended on my incredible skill as a marksman...... but, considering that it was only a 15 yard (maybe less) shot, from an overhead position, at a stationary, grazing deer, using a 150 lb. draw weight crossbow, firing a bolt tipped with fixed blade broadhead point, it would be pretty hard not to make the perfect kill shot.