Oh Oh--it's deer hunting season, again, and hunters with the pickup trucks with dog boxes in the back zoom by the house from daylight to dark. An article in the paper said every year vehicle/deer collisions increase, and a deer slamming into your car or truck or whatever can do some real damage. I'm scared sh*tless of deer running out of the woods into my car because I've had some near misses. Especially this time of year, when hunters are out chasing them, and dogs hounding them, they get spooked and run wild.

I saw a list compiled on how much it costs to bag a deer. You have to have a hunting license, guns, ammunition, care and feeding of dogs if you use them, a pickup truck, dog pens, camoflauge clothes and gear, food plots that have to be planted and maintained, deer stands, gas to run the roads, the list was formidable.

Some hunters now use antenna to find lost dogs--they stand by their trucks holding up the antenna to pick up signals from transmitters on their dog's collars to find them. Inevitably, though, a starving lost hunting dog will show up on my porch. Happens at least once or twice every year.

Deer hunters usually hunt in groups, so if one gets a deer, the meat has to be shared among them. When they bag a deer, the kill has to be taken to a processing plant to be cut up for use. Some guys do their own butchering to save money, but pound of venison winds up costing $15.00 or more. It's much ado about nothing.

susil