I think Harry will really be saddened to hear that I went to the seminar at
Fort A.P.Hill here in Virginia and got my deer permit for the base this
coming
season. Venison steaks will be for dinner!

Butch Ammon


Deer hunting? Maybe your deer are bigger, meaner, and warier back east but
shooting a deer out west here anymore is like gunning down the neighbor's pet
goat.
Darn things are all semi-tame. They are so acclimated to people that about
half
of them come up and beg for snacks when they see human beings. There was
probably something to the "sport" at one time, but most of the deer around
here
are not much bigger than (and no more clever than) a typical petting-zoo
goat.


Some of the deer in Virginia (western part around the Blue Ridge Mts and
Skyline drive areas) are HUGE... Massive 16 point bucks that can easily weigh
as much as a full grown man. The rest of Virginia has ordinary, common, deer
herds. They are not tame, but are starting to venture more and more into urban
areas and trash people's gardens - and get hit by cars!

I don't exactly "shoot" deer, as in using a rifle - I don't own a rifle. But I
have a big compound bow with 65 lbs of pull to it, and merely launch an arrow
at a deer. It's more sporty that way - you have to get REAL CLOSE to a deer
too.

Butch Ammon