NY village agrees to hire federal sharpshooters to cull deer

[Uptown Redneck]

FAYETTEVILLE, N.Y. (AP) - A central New York village has agreed to hire federal sharpshooters to cull its deer population.

The Onondaga County village of Fayetteville voted Monday night to hire professional sharpshooters from the U.S. Department of Agriculture, and not use volunteer archers as originally planned.

The village near Syracuse wants to manage the deer population in hopes of decreasing cases of Lyme disease, among other things.

Fayetteville Mayor Mark Olson says the sharpshooters are expected to use suppressed rifles, which are generally prohibited for hunting under state law.

The village is expected to talk with an aviation company on Wednesday to choose a flyover date to count the deer. The mayor says that the agency will let the village know when it can start once that happens.

Sharpshooters will cover four sites over a couple weeks

[Marion]

Great let's let the gov take over shoot the animals and leave them to rot instead of letting volunteers do the work and actually put the meat to good use. Thanks liberals!

You Can't Beat My Meat!

[grampy]

Do I qualify as a sharpshooter? Where do I get a suppressed rifle? Feel like I'm missing all the fun!

[Merlot]

FAYETTEVILLE, N.Y. (AP) - A central New York village has agreed to hire federal sharpshooters to cull its deer population.

The Onondaga County village of Fayetteville voted Monday night to hire professional sharpshooters from the U.S. Department of Agriculture, and not use volunteer archers as originally planned.

The village near Syracuse wants to manage the deer population in hopes of decreasing cases of Lyme disease, among other things.

Fayetteville Mayor Mark Olson says the sharpshooters are expected to use suppressed rifles, which are generally prohibited for hunting under state law.

The village is expected to talk with an aviation company on Wednesday to choose a flyover date to count the deer. The mayor says that the agency will let the village know when it can start once that happens.

Sharpshooters will cover four sites over a couple weeks

Gotta burn up some of those 28 billion bullets state and fed government bought up a few years ago

[fasteddie]

Will King Andy let then have more than 7 rounds in the magazines ?  You don't need 10 bullets to kill a "deah" ! 

[NFA-ADK]

The new norm!  Population problem with deer, lets spend federal money instead of asking free bow hunters to do the job this way we do not have to actually see any deer culling.   Then they will wonder why they still have population problems due to the fact that sharp shooters can not shoot in rural area's. 

 

Funny how we can build an area up and then say deer are over populated when we took over the land the deer use to be on!  They are not over populated the people are just tired of getting lyme and demand the government help them out, lol.  Next is baiting stations, birth control etc!  Like this has not been done before! 

 

Next they will take away the first 2 weeks of bow and say you are responsible to cull all the deer with the worst weapon but we will let federal sharp shooters in at night with bait and lights and silencers shooting from trucks! 

 

 

[wildcat junkie]

Gotta burn up some of those 28 billion bullets state and fed government bought up a few years ago

 

Are you really that delusional?

[growalot]

Well if the suppressed rifles are illegal under state law and these guys are federal ...Not law enforcement officers?? Couldn't a law suit be filed to stop them?..I mean this is town/probably state funds as well and against state laws.

[wildcat junkie]

Well if the suppressed rifles are illegal under state law and these guys are federal ...Not law enforcement officers?? Couldn't a law suit be filed to stop them?..I mean this is town/probably state funds as well and against state laws.

 

They aren't "hunting" & I would think they will use other methods that wouldn't be considered legal for "hunting".

 

[WNYBuckHunter]

Great let's let the gov take over shoot the animals and leave them to rot instead of letting volunteers do the work and actually put the meat to good use. Thanks liberals!

You Can't Beat My Meat!

 

Id rather see people be allowed to hunt them, but I guess I missed the part that said the deer would be left to rot and the meat not used in any way other than to feed the local scavengers (dead deer dont really go to waste if not eaten by humans).

[growalot]

So suppressed rifles aren't illegal under the safe act?

[wildcat junkie]

So suppressed rifles aren't illegal under the safe act?

 

I believe the Safe act had nothing to do with it. "Supressed rifles" are illegal in many states that are governed by conservatives.

[growalot]

Ok I think the point of my original question has been lost...

[Fredbear2]

Ya way to just kill the deer and let rot. So many hunters that would love the meat that they never got this year. That's not what the animal deserves . Way to go. Should be ashamed.

[Critter4321]

So suppressed rifles aren't illegal under the safe act?

 

Looks like there going to try out the 30 cal air rifles

[wildcat junkie]

Where does it say they are going to let them rot? Don't they usually donated them to food banks & such?

 

I'm not condoning the idea of sharpshooters but let's get the facts straight.

[Critter4321]

I dont think a bunch of deer rotten away near a bigger residential area would go over so well they should donate them

[wildcat junkie]

I dont think a bunch of deer rotten away near a bigger residential area would go over so well they should donate them

 

And I would be willing to bet that they will.

[Mr VJP]

This is also done regularly in Princeton, NJ, (where they banned all hunting by making discharge of ANY weapon illegal) but they use a private company called "White Buffalo".   They shoot semi auto black rifles with silencers at night over bait (none of which is legal for hunting in NJ) and often do not recover the dead deer.  They charge taxpayers $1000 per deer and they report how many they have killed without the carcasses.

 

Bowhunters in NJ would be happy to PAY to hunt there, but Princeton is more concerned with control than saving tax dollars.

 

If this town in NY follows the lead of most other places that do this, they will simply be spending a lot of tax money to kill deer, when they could allow bow hunters to do it and make money off of them.

Edited January 12, 2016 by Mr VJP

[wildcat junkie]

Ok I think the point of my original question has been lost...

 

I believe suppressed rifle were illegal before the safe act & therefore they aren't illegal under the safe act specifically.

 

[nyantler]

This town is only a mile or so from me... what you may not know is that there was a plan already in place to allow bow hunter to do this job... it was suppose to have begun a month or so ago and was postponed by the village ( I'm assuming there was some backlash by some of the residents ) .

 

http://www.syracuse.com/news/index.ssf/2015/11/fayetteville_bait-and-kill_deer.html.

 

the plan: http://fayettevilleny.gov/NewsAndInformation/VillageNews/DownloadFile.aspx?id=1253

Edited January 12, 2016 by nyantler

[Mr VJP]

I'm assuming hunting is not allowed in this town?

 

[nyantler]

I'm assuming hunting is not allowed in this town?

Not in the village limits.. no... and the deer are thicker than crows in the village limits... Part of the village is adjacent to Green Lakes State Parks... which holds an unbelievable amount of deer and some of the biggest bucks I've ever seen. No hunting allowed there either. This is a relatively affluent neighborhood with lots and lots of tree huggers for residents.

[Mr VJP]

These towns create these problems by banning hunting and then make taxpayers bear the cost of fixing them.

 

This also isn't a one time fix.  It will need to be done regularly.

Edited January 12, 2016 by Mr VJP

[Lawdwaz]

Some of you guys are pretty thick.................this stuff has been going on for at least 20 and maybe 25 years here in WNY.

 

Only the BEST of equipment; suppressed rifles, night vision, bait, paid shooters etc.  I don't know the ratio of hit & killed vs hit & lost but I'd  bet dollars to donuts they don't loose many.  What is killed is utilized well; IIRC the Buck & Doe Shop in Amherst handles lots of those deer.  Some people in need of a deer or two have been known to have that need filled.  I've seen with my own eyes (and helped process) the expertly field dressed (with a bag of ice in the chest cavity!) deer that have come out of these handoff's.

 

And as far as archers doing the job; get real.  How many deer do you really think the bow hunters are going to get?  Who's going to give the permission (and except liability)  and how's that dead doe (oh it better NOT have horns!!) in the neighbors yard going to fly?  Lordy lordy wait until the pregnant doe's fetus jump out on Mrs Smith's lawn.  UGGH!

 

Unfortunately these municipalities have waited too long to implement a plan for archers to assist, they need to get the numbers down right now and sharpshooters can do that, tonight while you're all sleeping.  It'd be nice to THEN allow archers to keep things under control but that hasn't happened around here and might not happen for you, just Johnny Law get to do the job.........oh and some local farmers of course.