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Grinding Away..Things that grind your gears, part three

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dxmnkd316 said:
Let's not forget that deer are almost a nuisance in minnesota in the month or two leading up to the culling of the herd. If you don't trim the numbers, the car/deer accidents alone would have a staggering price tag (and possibly death toll - hit a deer going 65 and see what happens). Honestly speaking, the percentage of meat that is actually eaten is irrelevant, it's just a bonus to those who actually bag a deer. You simply can't allow them to go unchecked. The white tailed deer's natural range is pretty much the continental United States. Encroachment ensmoachment.
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This. Whitetail deer are an overpopulated nuisance animal in the Midwest, where large tracts of land and plenty of farms make for convenient cover and food. In populated areas, where hunting isn't even allowed (for the most part), they've learned to adapt to life in swamps and small areas of forest, while chowing down on people's landscaping and gardens. During mild winters, the population explodes when nearly every surviving doe drops a fawn in May.

I've hit a deer going 50. Stupid thing just jumped out into the highway, 10 feet in front of me. Once was enough - thankfully, insurance covered the $3,000 worth of auto body repair.
 
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FadeToBlack&Gold said:
This. Whitetail deer are an overpopulated nuisance animal in the Midwest, where large tracts of land and plenty of farms make for convenient cover and food. In populated areas, where hunting isn't even allowed (for the most part), they've learned to adapt to life in swamps and small areas of forest, while chowing down on people's landscaping and gardens. During mild winters, the population explodes when nearly every surviving doe drops a fawn in May.

I've hit a deer going 50. Stupid thing just jumped out into the highway, 10 feet in front of me. Once was enough - thankfully, insurance covered the $3,000 worth of auto body repair.
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I read this as autopsy. :p We had to pull all the yews in the front of my house because they chewed them bare. They also ate most of my hostas, and had snacks off most of my non-deer-repellent perennials. Wasn's a problem until they built a few developments where farm land used to be. Now we have herds running thru the back yard in the woods. :mad:
 
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leswp1 said:
I read this as autopsy. :p We had to pull all the yews in the front of my house because they chewed them bare. They also ate most of my hostas, and had snacks off most of my non-deer-repellent perennials. Wasn's a problem until they built a few developments where farm land used to be. Now we have herds running thru the back yard in the woods. :mad:
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Go buy drain oil pans, and about 10 gallons of anti-freeze, dump a couple gallons of anti-freeze in each pan and leave in your yard. Should help take care of the problem. :D
 
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bigblue_dl said:
Go buy drain oil pans, and about 10 gallons of anti-freeze, dump a couple gallons of anti-freeze in each pan and leave in your yard. Should help take care of the problem. :D
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Also any neighborhood dogs that are allowed to run free...
 
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Beer Pong Horn said:
FYP

The only problem (besides the massive number of dead creatures) would be that you couldn't eat the meat from those deer. ;)
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I'm not so sure. Ethylene glycol is not that toxic. I doubt it would build up in the meat from the one fatal does. Make sure you use the cheap anti-freeze, the propylene glycol is not toxic.
 
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goldy_331 said:
I'm not so sure. Ethylene glycol is not that toxic. I doubt it would build up in the meat from the one fatal does. Make sure you use the cheap anti-freeze, the propylene glycol is not toxic.
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If it's toxic enough to kill a deer, I still don't think I'd want to eat that venison. :p Who knows though, the cooking process may cause it to evaporate (or may cause it to be in higher concentrations.)
 
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Beer Pong Horn said:
If it's toxic enough to kill a deer, I still don't think I'd want to eat that venison. :p Who knows though, the cooking process may cause it to evaporate (or may cause it to be in higher concentrations.)
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My guess is that the deer wouldn't metabolize it fast enough for it to get into the muscle in enough concentration to be dangerous. The problem would be finding the dead deer soon enough and field dressing it before the meat spoils.
 
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bigblue_dl said:
My guess is that the deer wouldn't metabolize it fast enough for it to get into the muscle in enough concentration to be dangerous. The problem would be finding the dead deer soon enough and field dressing it before the meat spoils.
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True, but if it's left in the deer for long enough, it will essentially marinate the deer with it. Concentration gradient through the tissues.
 
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dxmnkd316 said:
True, but if it's left in the deer for long enough, it will essentially marinate the deer with it. Concentration gradient through the tissues.
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Well, if the deer lays for more than about 3 hours before being gutted, I wouldn't eat the meat. The meat goes bad pretty fast when it lays on the ground with the guts still in there.
 
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This conversation would be better if I hadn't read it right after breakfast.
 
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GRRRRR. It grinds my gears when family knows that I am prepping for T-day and invariably call telling me they know I am busy butthey want to get info about something they don't need for days and then want to have a conversation about world events. I say I can't talk, multiple times. I end up being firm and saying I need to get off the phone. Then I am the bad person because I am not social/ I really don't have time for them ever/ I don't care about them. Hellllllo! You told me you know I am maxed. Do you really need to be calling me to have human contact NOW? You are going to see me in less than 24 hours. :mad: This person does this every time I am getting ready for something big and then it hurts their feelings that I can't talk. Way to set up fail. Call me when I am not eye deep in prepping. I usually don't answer the phone but today I had a brain fart.
 
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leswp1 said:
GRRRRR. It grinds my gears when family knows that I am prepping for T-day and invariably call telling me they know I am busy butthey want to get info about something they don't need for days and then want to have a conversation about world events. I say I can't talk, multiple times. I end up being firm and saying I need to get off the phone. Then I am the bad person because I am not social/ I really don't have time for them ever/ I don't care about them. Hellllllo! You told me you know I am maxed. Do you really need to be calling me to have human contact NOW? You are going to see me in less than 24 hours. :mad: This person does this every time I am getting ready for something big and then it hurts their feelings that I can't talk. Way to set up fail. Call me when I am not eye deep in prepping. I usually don't answer the phone but today I had a brain fart.
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Caller ID.
 
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