Sharpshooters for Suburban Deer Management


Woodside deer cull suspended amid safety concerns February 14, 2020, South Carolina, Aiken Standard

... The Friday meeting came about after Andrea Gregory, City Council member for District 5, visited Woodside residents Tuesday to address pools of blood left behind by deer dispatched by sharpshooters and subsequently requested a halt to the culling until an agreement between culling parties and the city could take place...

Woodside residents voice concerns over killing of deer in neighborhood February 13, 2020 South Carolina, Aiken Standard

... "The insanity of shooting high-powered rifles in a densely populated area, day or night, from stationary (locations) or vehicles, is wrong on so many levels,"


Mendham deer-hunt plan endangers residents September 24, 2013

... Misfired and ricocheted bullets and projectiles are a serious lethal threat. You only have to look to Amherst, N.Y., where a bullet fired by a police sharpshooter in a tree stand aiming down toward a deer on the ground ricocheted into a residential neighborhood blowing a baseball-sized hole in a young couple’s home while the father was inside with his son...


Kensington Metropark, Genoa man criticizes killing of white deer at park July 10, 2015 Michigan, Livingston Daily

... Muelle said the sharpshooter did identify the target, but did not notice its antlers or coat against the snow. He has said his sharpshooters were told to avoid the white deer if possible, but the conditions were terrible on the night in question ... sharpshooters are all trained and certified by the U.S. Department of Agriculture's Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service. ...


Ann Arbor, Images of dead deer inspire new protests against Ann Arbor deer cull February 2, 2016 Michigan, The Michigan Daily

... On Tuesday morning, an Ann Arbor resident found a dead doe and her unborn fetus, still in its embryonic sac, in Leslie Park Golf Course, one of 114 public areas in the city in which the deer cull is being carried out... examiners discovered a hole on the half-eaten carcass of the doe that they believed to have been a bullet hole according to HSHV...

Ann Arbor, Humane Society unable to determine cause of death for deer found in Leslie Park February 1, 2016 Michigan, MLive.com

... Some residents have speculated the deer was shot by one of the sharpshooters hired by the city to kill deer in the parks and then, after getting away, was attacked by one or more coyotes while injured ...


Mendham deer-hunt plan endangers residents September 24, 2013

... Misfired and ricocheted bullets and projectiles are a serious lethal threat. You only have to look to Amherst, N.Y., where a bullet fired by a police sharpshooter in a tree stand aiming down toward a deer on the ground ricocheted into a residential neighborhood blowing a baseball-sized hole in a young couple’s home while the father was inside with his son...


Buena Vista, Community is concerned with the handling of its deer population February 2, 2020 Virginia, WDBJ

... a public works fella who works over here and he told me they were up here killing deer ... "I was looking up through the field and I seen a deer run out the woods ... I thought he was just running, then I rode towards the deer and saw her hind leg dangling." ...



Photo from KUAM.com: The USDA has a sharpshooter program to manage deer.


Dead deer in viral image were killed properly by USDA May 24, 2016 Guam, KUAM.com

... killed on base by the USDA ... dumped at the Layon Landfill

Islesboro rejects deer sharpshooter plan October 20, 2014 Maine, workingwaterfront.com

... Linda Gillies, a member of the town's deer reduction committee who supported hiring the sharpshooters, believes a majority voted against the proposal out of concerns for safety ...


Commission says no to sharp shooting deer, proposes bow hunt December 13, 2018 Iowa City Press-Citizen

... Despite having received permission to hold special hunts nine times between 2000 and 2010, the members of the commission — a seven-member citizen committee that works with the IDNR to apply administrative rules — denied Iowa City's request, preferring instead a bow hunt open to all hunters...


Montgomery County looks at bowhunting to cull deer July 29, 2015 Maryland, Washington Post

... more than 2,000 Montgomery residents who signed a 2013 Change.org petition urging officials to halt a Park Police sharpshooting hunt, citing a specific incident involving a resident walking in the woods near Brookside Gardens who came across a doe with a gaping gunshot wound to her jaw...


Long Island, Federal Sharpshooters Fail: Deer Celebrate Cull's Limited Success September 7, 2014 New York, Dan's Papers

... Last February, federal sharpshooters came to eastern Long Island to kill 3,000 deer... it has now been revealed that they succeeded in killing only 192 deer ... While they were here, I often encountered them at bars in local taverns, their guns leaning against the building outside, wallowing in their misery over drinks. The deer were too smart. They’d fire and miss...


Factors Associated with Shooting Accuracy and Wounding Rate of Four Managed Wild Deer Species in the UK, Based on Anonymous Field Records from Deer NJ Aebischer, CJ Wheatley, HR Rose - PLOS ONE, 2014

... the probability of killing a hit animal ranged more widely from 88% to 99% (Table 2), giving estimated wounding rates of 1–12%. When a deer was not killed outright by the first shot and then escaped, determining whether it was hit or not was done using behavioural and physical indicators such as the animal's reaction to the shot and any blood or hair signs left where it had been standing. There was a possibility that, if such signs were not noticed or discovered, a deer could have been reported as a clean miss when in fact it had been hit. The worst-case scenario of all animals not killed being wounded gives upper limits to the wounding rates of 3–17% (Table 5) ...


Mt. Lebanon, Weak ammunition delays deer cull in Mt. Lebanon March 19, 2015 Pennsylvania, Pittsburgh Tribune-Review

... The operator of Mt. Lebanon's controversial deer culling program cut short the first night after contractors needed 11 direct shots to the head to kill three deer at close range ... Mt. Lebanon spokeswoman Susan Morgans referred comments to the state game commission, which could not be reached...