Not that I put the 40 hours during rifle season I use to. Cost of meat look for more of this.
I can tell you that one family would pay people to get hunting lic and push deer so they can shoot them.
Other group would shoot every deer they could.
One other group shot many deer going to and from a bird feeder. One time the deer was
50 yds away at most when they finished it off. Heading that way because it was use to being there and felt safe. I was walking a fence line making sure it was up... We always pushed deer through this area from 300 to 500 yards away or more drive would start some 3/4 a mile away. Never shot any around the feeder. Always 200 yards or more away, not a 100.
We still hear a ton... well not a ton but more then a few the 3-5 days before the season starts.
I can understand shooting a few minutes late or what was late years ago, your on stand and you see the deer and mins fly by and dam your like oo $hit it was say 5 min late. But these guys are just ?? in what they do.
Trust me there are a bunch of deer shot illegal every year. Mistakes are one thing but these are some that are just not right. I'll give anyone an honest mistake.
For years we would run these hills only to get home and check on things after dark to find a nice buck in the field at 5:45 PM. Say to each other what hole was he hiding in. Never did we shoot at any deer after hours. Trouble with a gun/someone dropped it or missed a deer and check it late in the day at a target yes, but no deer.
