My club and several others are in a co-op that donate nuisance deer to a homeless organization. We have a contracted rate with a butcher who also stores the meat for pickup. In return, we divy up the nuisance permits that a number of local farms receive every year. We also kill whatever the farms want killed, mostly as targets of opportunity, rather than directed hunts. It is a fairly easy way to get access to farmland and to hunt deer anytime you want to. Some farms have been doing this for decades. Since local land went from a few hundred $ an acre decades ago to what it is now, farms have slowly disappeared.
Anyway, we keep records. Partially to justify the relationship.
The last 2 deer came to the butcher field dressed at under 25lbs, well under.
We figured that at the contracted rate for butchering/storage and the yield, we could just donate filet mignon.
Butchering/storage are spilt by the clubs out of the club budgets, it does not come from whoever killed the deer.
The clubs have really low dues.
Little bit of discussion in the club. The farmers are perfectly happy with us killing fawns. But it is less efficient to them, since coyotes get a lot of fawns anyway.
Ideally we would just kill big does, but they don't alway present themselves.
Anyhow, we decided not to shoot fawns for the next year. See what happens.
