Damage Control Deer with a Parker GH 16

[David Hamilton]

Could you explain "damage control" in Virginia? We have too many deer here in Fauquier County but don't shoot until the season arrives even though there is plenty of reason to shoot the deer all year long. David

[6pt-Sika]

Originally Posted by David Hamilton

Could you explain "damage control" in Virginia? We have too many deer here in Fauquier County but don't shoot until the season arrives even though there is plenty of reason to shoot the deer all year long. David

Hmmmmm David Hamilton ?

I have a friend in Madison County with the same name . Owns a heating and air conditioning buisness .

Oh back to the question Damage Control in our state is for farmers or howeowners with problems from wildlife . In our case the two farms we DCP for deer they're bothering the soy beans and corn crops . In the place we DCP hunt for bear they're teraing up an apple and peach orchard .

I have friends who get DC permits in the Charlottesville area in some of what some people call the more ritzie sub divisions . But generally those guys are achery only or archery and sub sonic suppressed rifles .

If I'm not mistaken Faquier is in or right on the fringe of the Chronic Waste Disease area of Virginia .

[6pt-Sika]

David if I'm not mistaken Faquier is also in whats called one of the Urban deer season areas of Virginia for antlerless only .

Generally the early archery season for the Urban areas starts about now and then after the gun season is over the first saturday in January the late Urban antlerless archesy season starts in and runs until March I think .

About 5 years now I've been hunting from mid to late july until late january and let me just say it gets a little old after awhile .

If I night hunted and used red lights and thermal imaging I could probably get more . But what we do seems a little more ethical to me and to be honest sitting at night waiting for deer just doesn't intrest me that much .

The first couple times we went this year we both had thermal imaging and red lights . I wasn't comfortable with it and didn't care for it . And to be honest I never saw anything when I was trying that stuff !

This summer I've found optimum time to be 18:00 to 19:45 . So i try and be where I wanna be by 17:00 .