say if you got a deer!

my dad got a deer!

I once almost got an elk with my car...

Is it alive or dinner

That would freak me the hell out if I woke up in the middle of the night.

Okay, the obvious needs to be said… “if you got a deer!”

Correct.

What’s on the other side of the wall?

Woolly, the deer situation here in the states isn't good. For various reasons, and over time, we've removed the natural predators for the deer population. Now the only thing that keeps the deer population in check is the hunters. If it weren't for the hunters, the deer population would explode, and the deer would meet an even uglier demise through starvation and getting hit by vehicles. That is actually happening in cities where hunting isn't allowed, so we have verified proof of what happens to the deer population when they aren't hunted. So in an ironic way, hunting deer is actually the kinder thing to do.

In some of the cities surrounded by rural areas, the deer population has gotten so bad that some of the cities have had to spend big money to hire licensed bow hunters to hide in trees and thin the deer herds out via bow and arrow. Weird, huh?

Deer meat must be really inexpensive in these areas, I suppose?

I'm no economist, but I'd suspect that deer meat (venison) helps keep the price of other meat in check. If there's a lot of hunters with lots of venison packed away in their freezers, that keeps the prices of other meat (beef, chicken, pork, etc.) from getting too high in the grocery stores.

licensed bow hunters..yes, i think it is to prevent abusing the bows and arrows from people with unstable emotions..

The alternative is to have the deer eat every single flower and vegetable from every single resident's yard. Then some of the deer will be killed in auto accidents (and the car is often totaled, and the auto occupants are sometimes injured or killed). The deer that survive live in people's yards and carry tick-borne diseases. And many of them will die of starvation due to overpopulation.

Other than that, everything is peachy keen...

Oh, and I guess the reason those cities hire bow hunters is I guess they reason that bows are safer than guns in a residential area. You don't have gunshots scaring residents, and I guess an arrow ricochet wouldn't be as much of a concern than a bullet ricochet. Also, the bow hunters are required to shoot downward from the tree perch.

I'm not a bow hunter, but I'd imagine with the higher powered bows, an arrow could kill a deer just as cleanly (read humanely) as a gun could.