[Old Grump]

Been going on for decades not a decade. Back in the dark ages after Nam was over and the establishment of no hunting zones and forest preserves in Illinois in the collar counties the deer population grew quickly with no predators to keep them down. A walk through what was supposed to be a wilderness area was like a walk in a carefully cultivated park because all the forbs the deer could reach was gone and the deer were woefully undersized.

They naturally moved out into the neighborhoods and happily ate very expensive landscape plants. The same ninnies who complained about the deer eating up their prized oriental flowers were the loudest protesters when the park people put forth a designated rifle hunt plan or a limited archery season. They didn't want the deer killed, they just wanted the park service to explain to them that they couldn't go out and eat the residents shrubbery.

One more reason I was happy to leave that insanity behind and come back to Wisconsin where deer are looked at as a traffic hazard and a viable source of nutrition. Instead of hiding my guns from my neighbors they are in a gun rack over my bed. His are in the corner by his dresser.