Connecting Successful Hunters With Needy Families
December 1, 2008
The North Carolina Bow Hunters Association has launched a web based matching service to help hunters give deer & feral hogs to families that could use the meat. In tough economic times like we face now I’m sure there are a lot of people that could use the help and with deer populations needing to be thinned this seems like a win win situation for sure.
“I don’t have any more space,” said Ramon Bell of Stokesdale. “I’ve got deer and wild game in two freezers. I don’t have space for it, but I wouldn’t mind shooting an extra doe.”
That’s what inspired Bell, who heads the N.C. Bowhunters Association, to create an online deer-donation registry. It pairs hunters who want to donate deer carcasses with people who want to feed their families venison.
The bowhunters association started the new program online this week.
North Carolina’s population of white-tailed deer is at 1.1 million, and there were about 18,000 deer collisions reported last year. As a way to control the population, there is no limit on the number of does a hunter can kill in deer season. Hunters in the western part of the state are allowed to kill two bucks.
This is a great idea and hopefully will help a lot of people in these tough economic times.
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That is such a good idea! I wish more states would do this sort of thing.
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[...] politically and socially active sportsmen in state of North Carolina has done it again. Our own, Moose, has reported on a great program set up through the North Carolina Bowhunters Association. Check it out and by all means participate. Not only can we help feed hungry mouths with [...]