Interesting Prompt For Discussion - Deer Butchering in Public

[Mallardsx2]

Totally agree.

But the reality is, and we all know this to be true, they don't. Any reasonable hunter knows that there are certain things that are just going to piss off folks. Doesn't mean what they are doing is wrong, or illegal... but it does draw unnecessary attention and cast a negative light on other hunters, and it's going to set some Karen off.

For the last 10 years I've lived in towns/cities, I've butchered plenty of animals and boiled lots of heads in small apartments. It's pretty easy to be discrete.

Do you legally have to do be discrete... no. But do I want my HOA to put in place rules against processing my animals.

That's the point here, shooting holes in the boat. Nothing he is doing is wrong, but anyone can recognize it's not got bad optics.

People can yell about culture wars, and feel righteous indignation as they slap "smoke a pack a day" bumper stickers on their trucks, but you are hurting your cause.

I get your point.

However, it doesn't mean much to me as I will likely go down swinging due to my own personal stubbornness. But that's my prerogative.

I’m not giving an inch of my god given right (to some Karen) to feed my family to some townie lol

Look where giving a couple inches has gotten us in the last 20 years…..lord have mercy.

 

[Pucky Freak]

I hang and butcher with the garage door open but I have a long setback and live in a semi-rural area. I doubt I’d ever get any complaints.

When I lived in an apartment in the city I hid the deer carcass under a tarp in my hatchback, then after dark quartered and transferred to bags before taking up the stairs to my unit to butcher. No sense in disturbing my neighbors.

 

[Nick87]

Some of you guys are something else, whether or not this guy was doing this for attention I don't know or don't care. Can't believe something so miniscule makes the news. With everything that has to be socially accepted people are going to jump on someone for butchering a deer in there yard, give me a $*)Q!#@$ break. I'm pretty sure some of you are almost ashamed of the fact that you hunt. My step sons middle school has something called ag week. Where they learn about where food comes etc. Two field trips one to a local farm and another for a walk through of a local meat processor.

 

[Hilljackoutlaw]

$*)Q!#@$ pussies!

 

[Hilljackoutlaw]

I'm serious Holy shit. I can be and am sympathetic to a degree with the pussification of the world. You guys can dance around what you do and to an extent hide it from the world all you want like your classy but I'm not gonna worry about stupid shit like this.

 

[BirdManMike]

And that’s pretty much how I got into hunting.
I wonder if any children had their interests piqued by the sight of the deer?
I wonder if anyone positive hunting conversations were started because of it?

I had a similar experience in 5th grade only it involved a strange science lady with spike-y, dragonball-z-esque hair and the dissecing of squid which were then tossed on an electric skillet in the classroom with extra credit given to whomever agreed to eat these freshly dissected (and entirely unseasoned) squid.

 

[Maverick1]

I butcher my deer in the front yard, on the cargo carrier. Neighbors give me strange looks sometimes, but that's their problem, not mine.

 

[Nick87]

Bullshit folks need to stop being ass holes

Like calling the news crew on a guy butchering a deer...

 

[Hilljackoutlaw]

Hunters: greatest apologists in world history yet never gain an inch, amazingly somehow lose ground consistently for years on end even tho they have perfected the apology and no longer put deer on car hoods. Baffling to the most brilliant minds of our time. A true enigma they say.

This thread makes me wanna vomit.

Dont know where some of yins grew up, but I'll stay in places where men drink Busch light and butcher deer where they please.

 

[huntnpack]

Read the community you’re in. But honestly I think my give a damn is broken on this one.

I kinda lost it at the censored deer carcass.

If it was someone from any other culture butchering a domestic animal, do you think it would have resulted in the same attention?

 

[F250]

I have really grown tired of people wanting others to change their behavior or choice of words because it offends them. How about this : if what I am doing offends you - walk away ! If what I am saying offends you - walk away !!

 

[Deleted member 28227]

Read the community you’re in.

Kinda the only real point

If it was someone from any other culture butchering a domestic animal, do you think it would have resulted in the same attention?

Yes and no depends on the community, see above.

Like calling the news crew on a guy butchering a deer...

Would be interesting to go have coffee/a beer at the local watering hole. Given the fact that there is a deer hanging in his yard on google kinda makes me thing there is a deer hanging in his yard for a while and it pisses off the neighbors... to the point they call the news. Would bet a greasy spoon breakfast someone has asked him to take the deer down at least once.

@Hilljackoutlaw can call it pussification but having moved around a bunch I've learned to read the room and not piss off my neighbors. Is this a big xmas decoration community, do we go all out for Halloween, when is too early to mow the lawn/leaf blower, dogs on leash or off leash, etc

Personally having lived in areas where folks move in and the insert their beliefs about everything and try to change everything, I recognize how frustrating that is and try not to be that guy.

I tell slightly different versions of hunting stories depending on the audience... read the room.

 

[rjthehunter]

The world is twisted. It's normal to see a guy get shot in the face on TV, or to watch Dahmer on Netflix where he dices humans up and eats them. Have any of you seen that shit? A deer hanging in a tree is nothing.

What happened to minding your own business? If you don't like it, don't look. People should focus on the road or their own lives instead of trying to look and see what their neighbor is doing.

I never liked seeing Biden signs in peoples yards...

 

[Deleted member 52098]

to the people that say "just don't look", you can comfortably say that because it fits YOUR narrative and your lifestyle. But I am willing to bet if it was something you weren't comfortable with, you'd have a different take - and I think that's what most of us are trying to say here... read the room.

 

[jt13]

Given the Google Streetview photo, I'd wager this is a regular occurrence. I know a lot of folks around here that live off road kill, always one or two hanging around at any point in time. If that's the case, I'd be annoyed about it too if I was the neighbor. Once or twice a year is one thing, all of the time is another issue

 

[mtmuley]

This thread has been interesting for sure. I'm reading the room. mtmuley

 

[TOGIE]

Not everyone has a garage.

i used to do euros from start to finish in the spare bathroom of an apartment we lived in.

i processed a handful of deer and antelope on the counters in that like 100 sqaure foot kitchen.

this is the first year in 12 or 13 i've had a garage.

 

[Carl 9.3x62]

Not everyone has a garage.

Just as big of an immorality as hanging a deer in your front yard.

 

[TOGIE]

Some of you guys are something else, whether or not this guy was doing this for attention I don't know or don't care. Can't believe something so miniscule makes the news. With everything that has to be socially accepted people are going to jump on someone for butchering a deer in there yard, give me a $*)Q!#@$ break. I'm pretty sure some of you are almost ashamed of the fact that you hunt. My step sons middle school has something called ag week. Where they learn about where food comes etc. Two field trips one to a local farm and another for a walk through of a local meat processor.

i mean i can't help but read this and wonder who is actually triggered by all this?

i don't give a shit nor am bothered about what he did, where he did it, or why he did it. what matters and all i care about is that it made the news.

there's some reason it made the news and it's probably because that guy is an asshole.

there is a difference between not giving an inch and lighting the yard stick on fire.

 

[rjthehunter]

to the people that say "just don't look", you can comfortably say that because it fits YOUR narrative and your lifestyle. But I am willing to bet if it was something you weren't comfortable with, you'd have a different take - and I think that's what most of us are trying to say here... read the room.

I've given 2 examples where I'm uncomfortable. 2 dudes making out, and Biden signs. Not super thrilled with either of those. So I don't look...