During champ car testing at the Road America racetrack in Elkhart Lake, a race car/deer collision occurred.

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Deer are a normal driving hazard on the roads of Wisconsin, but this is the first time I can remember anyone hitting one on the racetrack.

Deer are so numerous (nearly) nation wide that some auto insurance companies don't even need a supporting police report for your claim when you hit one.

Hunting them barely makes a dent in the population. A way to make a ton of money would be to replace bullets with birth-control devices that really work on deer. Of course, these devices would have to be bullet sized, so they fit and function within existing weaponry.

Birth control darts have been used is Wisconsin, and they have also failed to make a dent in the deer population. What is needed is more hunting, and specifically more hunting of does. The emphasis of many hunters on shooting bucks does little to control the population.

I'd go shooting them all day long if somebody else dealt with the carcasses. I don't care for the taste of venison.

There are more deer today than there were when the Pilgrims landed.

The way to control the deer population is to have doe seasons rather than buck seasons. If you kill 50% of the bucks in a given area the other 50% will still impregnate the does. If you kill 50% of the does in a given area there will be 50% fewer fawns in the Spring.

There are more deer today than there were when the Pilgrims landed.
That claim is suspect, though the Amerindian tribes surely would hunt them fervently.

I'd go shooting them all day long if somebody else dealt with the carcasses. I don't care for the taste of venison.

You would like a program we have in Wisconsin. Hunters are allowed to donate deer to a program that pays for them to be butchered, and the meat is distributed to food pantries. The cost of the butchering is paid for partly by donations, and partly by the state. The biggest contributors are auto insurance companies.

That claim is suspect, though the Amerindian tribes surely would hunt them fervently.

Actually, there are more deer now. Humans have greatly improved the habitat for deer. Deer prefer cover adjacent to open fields. When the pilgrims landed, most of the land east of the Mississippi River was covered with unbroken forest which supported far fewer deer than the landscape today. Woodlots and fencerows adjacent to fields provide near optimal deer habitat. At the time of the Pilgrims, deer were only really abundant where fire or storms had created clearings. They were hunted there by Native Americans, and often such clearings were created by them through controlled burns.