Cayuga Heights Deer Culling Plan

[MuzzyLoader]

Cayuga Heights has TOO MANY Deer...  ???

http://elmira-corning.ynn.com/content/top_stories/539454/cayuga-heights-to-begin-deer-culling-plan/

[5.9cummins]

A couple months back i wrote a letter to the village board stating my support of culling the herd.

Its there job to do what right and cost effective for the community. I don't like this plan as much as what i said they should do "open a special bow hunt".

If the Idiots that want to sterilize the deer that's fine put there money where there mouth is and don't use tax dollars to do it.

[fasteddie]

They had a serious deer problem in Irondiquoit a few years ago . They hired off duty police to bait and shoot the deer in Durand-Eastman Park . They quit doing that and started letting a few select Bow Hunters hunt in residental areas during the season under some specific rules . problem solved !

[G-Man]

it always seems to come down to bait n shoot..at the taxpayers expense.. why not allow bow and set up a profeciency test and charge 50$ for a buck tag aftr you remove 2 doe, or remove 4 doe and buck tag is 10$ five doe buck tag free! i bet a lot of culling will happen and at no expense and maybe a slight profit! 

[fasteddie]

It has saved Irondiquoit a bundle of meney !

[MuzzyLoader]

it always seems to come down to bait n shoot..at the taxpayers expense.. why not allow bow and set up a profeciency test and charge 50$ for a buck tag aftr you remove 2 doe, or remove 4 doe and buck tag is 10$ five doe buck tag free! i bet a lot of culling will happen and at no expense and maybe a slight profit! 

That's a good idea.

[SteveB]

Bowhunting would not help much in this area.

More info in this thread: http://huntingny.com/forums/index.php/topic,4329.msg54008.html#msg54008

[Doc]

Whenever I hear about another one of these Urban/suburban areas with a deer problem, I always get the feeling that we ought to just let them suffer with it. What a superb in-your-face laboratory such a situation would provide to show non-hunters the exact necessity for hunting. What a great classroom to show what happens without hunting. What a wonderful thing it would be to hear suburbia demanding that someone come and hunt these deer that are destroying thousands of dollars worth of landscape (and cars).

Ah, but I guess in the end we are better people than that. We will come to the rescue with our bowhunters and most likely see the anti-hunting editorials when a bloody wounded deer with an arrow sticking out of it stumbles into a sandbox in the middle of some day-care center and dies in the middle of a bunch of screaming children. A bit too much drama? .... lol. Well it may not be a scenario that extreme, but you get the idea.

[nyantler]

Whenever I hear about another one of these Urban/suburban areas with a deer problem, I always get the feeling that we ought to just let them suffer with it. What a superb in-your-face laboratory such a situation would provide to show non-hunters the exact necessity for hunting. What a great classroom to show what happens without hunting. What a wonderful thing it would be to hear suburbia demanding that someone come and hunt these deer that are destroying thousands of dollars worth of landscape (and cars).

Ah, but I guess in the end we are better people than that. We will come to the rescue with our bowhunters and most likely see the anti-hunting editorials when a bloody wounded deer with an arrow sticking out of it stumbles into a sandbox in the middle of some day-care center and dies in the middle of a bunch of screaming children. A bit too much drama? .... lol. Well it may not be a scenario that extreme, but you get the idea.

Good post!!

[Mr VJP]

Usually, it's the local elected officials who decide if a hunt happens, or cops get to bait and shoot.  Seems it's more about controlling the shooters than the deer.