Mojo2
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Until I was fourteen years old, I ate far more venison than beef. Prepared right, it is not gamey, unless you are stupid enough to shoot a buck in rutting season. There was a special agricultural season in Montana not long ago, seven deer allowed per hunter. One of my cousins and four freinds got 32 deer. Dressed them out, had a truck with a cooler, and took one for each family, the rest went for the families in their churches that were having a rough time of it.
If they are going to have that many allowed per hunter, there should be some rules specifiing that the meat not be wasted, and go to where it is needed. And the deer population can get rapidly out of control. I really don't think bringing in cougers and wolves into areas of fairly high population density is a reasonable solution. And cayotes are not going to take deer except in a starvation winter. Too dangerous for them, they are not large animals at all.
As for sport hunting, never saw the sport of killing an animal with a weapon that can shoot farther than they can identify you. But hunting for meat is quite a differant matter. And, prepared right, I prefer venison above any other meat I have had so far.
Hunting INCREASES the deer population.