And a-hunting we will go
Now, if you aren’t aware, Michigan is a haven for hunters. In fact, you could pretty much divide every single person in the state into two categories: those who know how to bleed and gut a buck and those who don’t. (And everyone who writes for this website is in the latter, I’m afraid, so women keep ‘em closed.)
Regardless of what your penchant for hunting is, I think it’s a little ridiculous that Wisconsin has a 9-day deer hunting season. Why? For starters, it causes everyone to act a bit more hasty, having a short amount of time to bag their prize and as a result, more fatalities and near-misses. This season alone three people were killed. I mean, space things out a bit, see what happens and maybe we can avoid this:
The first hunting fatality was an 18-year-old Saxeville man who was fatally shot by his 63-year-old grandfather who mistook him for a deer Nov. 18.
Jesus. Really? Sure, you’re trying to be all super secretive in your hide waiting for a deer to pass under you and the slightest noise may startle you into firing your rifle (um, although it shouldn’t), but isn’t there a split second before you fire where you see your grandson peering back at you under his bright orange camo jacket and you use that noggin of yours to decipher that a white-tail deer doesn’t wear a Metallica teeshirt and a sexually suggestive trucker hat? C’mon, folks.
Now, I’m not sure why Wisconsin’s season is so short (and quite frankly, I’m too lazy to look it up), but I’m assuming it has something to do with deer conservation. That’s all good fun and whatnot, but having a hunting season that short, as I said, is just plain ludicrous. No one ever does anything right when they’re pressed for time. Think about writing papers for school the night or morning before they’re due because you’re a hopeless procrastinator - 9 times out of 10 they aren’t nearly as good as those kids who worked on them weeks before with no pressure bearing down on them. Same goes here: 9 days to catch a deer will result in people who are already idiots acting even more idiotic.
And the stats? Well, there’s
more than 630,000 hunters took part in the 2007 hunt, hoping to bag one of 1.8 million deer roaming the woods at the beginning of the season.
Now that’s a lot of itchy trigger fingers, I’d say. Yet another reason to avoid Wisconsin from late September to mid-April, I’m afraid.
Check out the article here.
Ciao.