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Trapping deer at Land’s End golf course on Lake Fork.
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Well your argument that there is no overpopulation and then saying you have recommended a bowhunting program in this neighborhood to control population? Just say it- your are upset that the deer are not being controlled by hunting and are being trapped. Yea I get it. You see hunting opportunity. Just think of the liability on 2 acre lots with children and broad heads flying. Id trap them too.
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Originally posted by glen View PostWell your argument that there is no overpopulation and then saying you have recommended a bowhunting program in this neighborhood to control population? Just say it- your are upset that the deer are not being controlled by hunting and are being trapped. Yea I get it. You see hunting opportunity. Just think of the liability on 2 acre lots with children and broad heads flying. Id trap them too.
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Originally posted by glen View PostWell your argument that there is no overpopulation and then saying you have recommended a bowhunting program in this neighborhood to control population? Just say it- your are upset that the deer are not being controlled by hunting and are being trapped. Yea I get it. You see hunting opportunity. Just think of the liability on 2 acre lots with children and broad heads flying. Id trap them too.
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I lived in Austin years ago & I faintly remember something similar like this that took place. The best of my memory, the deer were processed & sent to the homeless shelters in the city. If that's what they're going to do with these deer I think that's a good thing. Now If we could only see these measures being taken on the wild hog population these shelters would have enough food to feed a lot of homeless folks.
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Sun City here close to Georgetown spends over $50,000 a year to trap and move up to 200 deer a year. The trapper says they lose half to stress every time. The half that dies are processed, the half that lives are relocated. I tried back in the nineties to form a bow hunting program so they could get rid of the deer and make a little money instead of spending money. They wouldn't do it because they didn't want the deer to get killed.
They did it in Fountain Wood sub-division where Bisch used to live and it worked great and still does. I think Bisch killed 9 one year.
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I wish to heck I could remember the name of the subdivision near San Antonio that did this back in the 90's. A trapper was called in to relocate the deer that were just all over the place down there. The retired folks that lived there were hand feeding some big un's and all was well until two things happened. 1) Several folks were attacked by the deer getting to the corn bucket or when the home owners tried to "shoo" them out of their gardens, I guess they just lost their fear of people. 2) A few guys were caught using bows to take deer out of their back yards.
In some instances trapping and relocating makes sense.
Richard
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Originally posted by Bear Charge View PostKLTV is based out of Tyler. Can't see how/why they are involved with Fork.
Lands End is just a quick 45 min drive North from KLTV headquarters.Last edited by Antlers86; 01-08-2019, 11:37 PM.
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Originally posted by rocky View PostIt’s about to get ugly. KLTV just contacted me. I’m not known for my political correctness.
Good luck! The fact that you helped with a solution encouraging female bow hunters and then got shot down by TPWD is very frustrating. What was the reasoning on their side? There is plenty of places out there to allow safe hunting. Do it during the weekdays while kids are in school and most folks are out working. Surely there are some folks living within the HOA that are hunters. Wonder what their opinion is.
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