PLEASE do not take anything as a 'Personal Attack'. That is not my intent. I do not get on discussion boards to make other people feel bad, so I apologize if that is how you took it. I take issue with what you said; NOT with you.

However, like anyone else here, I have the right to express and to offer more information, whenever I feel it is my duty to do so. And I think I've been really judicious in my comments.

Indie implied that anyone who continues to follow the law and purchase fishing or hunting licenses is basically a sheep and a slave and is feeding whatever "evil plans" the government has to keep us all oppressed. THAT is the slavery I referred to.

You may choose to believe what you like about deer and their intelligence, but I've done enough backpacking, accompanying real woodsmen, and just plain old time out there on foot to know, they just aren't very bright creatures. They are lovely and wonderful, yes---but they are not so highly developed as you seem to want to believe. It takes very high functioning brains to do the things you illustrate. Deer do not have them. They are pack animals who operate mostly on instinct.

I will have the statistics here for everyone to read, by the end of the night.