I don't fully understand hunting, but for those who hunt, doing it legally should be a given.

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I do eat fresh road kill. In fact I prefer it to shooting deer.
But that’s just me. Lucky enough to live on a busy highway in deer country and have never hit one with my car. Deputy is always happy to write me a tag when I show up.

so much for bowhunting.

And this is not the first time he's been busted for hunting after hours or on private land.

Personally, I consider deer as pests and there are just too many of them here in the northeast. They destroy woodlands and cause damage to us. But, guys like this aren't going to solve the problem.

If so, it explains why it took that jerk a week to find the animal. In addition to being a scofflaw, the guy is probably a lousy shot, and he subjected that animal to needless suffering.

Bowhunting is a barbarous, outdated means of killing game animals. Even with a well-placed arrow, there is virtually never an instant, humane kill---like there is with a bullet from a powerful rifle. I know ranch owners here in Texas who ended up prohibiting bowhunting on their places---they got tired of finding the remains of deer that bowhunters didn't have the skill or patience to stalk and retrieve. It's an ugly "sport," and I say that as someone with quite a few years of hunting experience.

In one part of Missouri (southeast of the Ozarks) where my family lives behind a state park, we've had over 5-6 deer/vehicle accidents alone within the family over 25 years (off a 2 lane, unmarked county highway, all forested). Folks need to go very slow since you can't see deer crossing at the road until the last moment, then WHAM. Thank goodness no one's been hurt (the vehicles, yes, people, no).

For those of you complaining about deer as vermin, hunters can be a big part of that. All those deer feeders result in large numbers of deer for the hunters' convenience and they're usually fairly docile and unafraid, which is not a good combination for drivers.

That "landowner" might well be more of a rancher. If he was, then this deer was known and probably named. Johnson is going to be very unpopular in that area for damaging the local revenue stream.

But it might as well be.