Deer are plentiful. Lining up permissions is a little tougher. Then there’s the game warden.
But, if I catch 'em eating my fruit, no permits or permissions are going to be needed.
I’d be happy to have visitors but my little property isn’t going to get you much unless you get lucky.
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How did the '21 freeze impact your axis population? I have a friend outside Fredericksburg and he said they all died around there. Backhoe time.
My dad and other community members, formed the Lee County (AL) Rod and Gun Club, working with AL Fish & Game folks to reintroduce whitetail deer and wild turkeys into our area of East Alabama. I still recall home movies of them releasing the first deer and turkeys into the woods behind the house I grew up in… when I was about 3 or 4 years old. This would have been in the very early 1960s; I presume overhunting, particularly during The Depression Era, had eradicated them from our woods.
I’m not sure how long it was before they opened a hunting season for deer - but I harvested my first buck at age 13. By the time I hit college, the modern firearms season ran from Thanksgiving to the end of January, with a bag limit of one antlered buck per day - and a 7-10 day ‘doe season’ where one could harvest one unantlered and one antlered deer per day. Bow season extended that harvest period for an extra month before and after modern firearm season. The population had exploded, and even those very liberal ‘bag limits’ didn’t impact it.
I don’t think I ever harvested more than 8 in a season (between me, my dad, and my BIL, we put 22 in the freezer that year) . I did have a friend who collected 79 one season, but that’s another story.
Initially, we ‘drove’ deer with dogs… you’d put out ‘standers’ around an area owned or leased by our club, release packs of hounds, and the standers would attempt to shoot them as they went by. Lots of bad shots, lost wounded deer, and the meat was often unpalatable… bad enough starting out with a mature buck in rut, but then chase him for a few hours and get lactic acid levels in the muscles elevated… But within 10 years or so, everyone went to planting wildlife foodplots and working to improve habitat, and the ‘dog drives’ were no more… everyone ‘still-hunts’.
I have no interest in a buck with any size rack… I still get a thrill seeing them - but hate them for the damage they do to my young trees. I much prefer a tender young doe ‘yearling’ who’s just barely lost her spots… but will take a big ol’ flathead doe, if she makes an appearance.
KY… only has like a 16-day modern firearms season. I don’t even know what the bag limits are… I only have just so much freezer space - and it’s not enough to impact the deer population here. Not sure how long the bow and blackpowder seasons are, as I don’t hunt with those. But, regardless… KDFWR needs to extend them in a major way…
You can always make a bunch of jerky! I know laws are wonky on donated meat depending on the location but that is an option for some too.
79? 
Was he running a butcher business? I think i’ve heard of people getting 10 back in the 90s craziness when the state population of deer was at all time highs and tags were about unlimited in certain zones (and like a dollar each).
Bow season started a few weeks ago and goes until around the 10th of Jan. It might close for a short time.
It depended on where you were at. If the ranch had cover and forage for them, the axis survived. If they didn’t the did not. Stonewall seemed hit the hardest, but that wasn’t where it was the coldest. Or at least we got the most reports of dead axis around Stonewall. The blackbuck populations were knocked back too.
Axis in velvet were hit the hardest.
Not sure I can tell if there was a difference though in the population. I still see dead axis on the side of the road.
WarmWx - LOL. No, but he had a deal worked out at a convenience store in town, trading each deer(mostly does) for a case of beer… I have no idea how the store was disseminating all that venison, or what $$ they were recouping.
But… once my friend’s dad (who was, at the time, Assistant State Veterinarian) found out what his son was doing, he put the kibosh on that deal.
I don’t understand why hunting abundant meat animals needs to be sporting, in the sense that there is some fair chance for the prey to escape.
The idea of leaving some deer to repopulate has always been the idea. Its like fishing with a crank phone it makes all fish rise to the surface not just those big enough to bite on bait. In the depression people cooked minnows as well. Its illegal as it should be but people in that situation dont always reason.
Well, that’s where the limits come in, right?
If I’m allocated 2 deer, what difference does it make if I bag them in 5 minutes with no fuss, vs making it my hobby for a weekend or season?
At least with gun deer hunters, i think a lot of guys would love to be done in 5 minutes, Get out of the truck…walk 15 yards into the woods…open fire…gut deer…drag deer back to truck…drive home. 
SPORT. If it’s fun, they can get you to pay hefty fees for a license, permit or tag…just like they get you (not me) to pay outrageous sums to see a football game.
The shortages in my area are deepening. There is chronic lack of inventory in most things. Some things like a solar inverter have been impossible to get this year. Wanted a 10 kw fronius but was unable to obtain one yet. The search for supplies goes on as im sure it does for most people. A Solar inverter is more of what i want than what i need for the moment. How is everyone else doing on finding supplies? We did grow more food and im glad we did.
Have missed your inputs. You’re not alone, I’ve had posts disappear, too.
If it’s not made in America, but the media and the office holders are encouraging everyone to do it, no surprise solar parts would be in short supply. China has millions in lock down, and about 18% unemployed.
Supply chains can only produce so much, even if there are no manufacturing or shipping bottlenecks.
Your logic would make sense if the inverters were made in China where things have been locked down. " Fronius International GmbH is an Austrian photovoltaic manufacturer based in Pettenbach, Upper Austria."
They may be in short supply because Euros’ are probably looking to go solar as well, considering they’re going into winter without much natural gas.
I’m pretty sure western Europe is looking at all options, including trying to get the coal mines back open.
There should be none. 2 is 2 IMO