Yeah jimicrk, if I got permission to pick up the fresh not-overly beat up road killed deer around here, I'd have plenty of venison but I'm about the only one that eats the stuff straight (and its not my favorite flavored meat--bbq sauce always helps) except my one kid that will eat some. He likes meat sticks a lot (so do I) but I probably don't need to eat tons more salt. Never spent the effort to make sticks and sausage on my own. Maybe I would in another situation.
I could also shoot my share of deer walking from my place back towards the "big" city down along the river or up and down through the hills but some of that is owned by a big ultiltiy compnay that has a wonderful de facto (I guess they allow some "special" bow hunters on the place) and some good area that's in the big city's winter park area. Some of the best deer territory is actually in the city boundaries itself that's not developed or in some sort of industrial use. They actually started a lottery system for anterless deer archery tags for this part of the city but I haven't done archery hunting in a long time. Maybe next year...
And I could have shot deer from my back yard as my area gets built out. Last time I saw any right here was one night a round Christmas time when a group of five crossed the new street behind my house just off of the street light area. Kind of fun to watch. Of course the lead doe stopped and raised her hoof to flip me off as we watched. They like doing that especially when I'm on the last few miles of coming home after a multi-hundred mile hunting trip to some of the more rural areas of my state
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