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Volume 162 · Issue 73 | 99¢

DFG offers apprentice deer hunt

The Department of Fish and Game (DFG) is offering a draw for an apprentice deer hunt on the San Antonio Valley Ecological Reserve.

Two hunters holding valid Junior Hunting Licenses will be chosen through a lottery and allowed to hunt for two days on the weekend of Sept. 22 and 23. To qualify for a Junior Hunting License for the 2012-13 season, applicants must have purchased this year’s license prior to turning 16.

The draw is being held in cooperation with the California Deer Association (CDA).

Applications will be accepted until Aug. 31, and successful applicants will be notified by Sept. 10. For information on how to apply and more details about the hunt, visit dfg.ca.gov/delta/hunts/SanAntonio.

The hunts are open to current valid Junior Hunting License holders only. Participants must attend a mandatory orientation scheduled on the first day of the hunt and be in possession of a Junior Hunting License and zone A tag deer hunting tag. An adult chaperone 18 years or older must accompany each hunter but may not hunt.

Applicants are advised that this hunt is within the designated Condor Range and therefore ammunition must be certified “lead free.”

Located in eastern Santa Clara County, the pristine 3,000-acre San Antonio Valley Ecological Reserve is home to deer, tule elk, wild pigs and a host of other wildlife species. The area is only open for scheduled events such as this one, and all hunting will be on foot from designated access points.

Department of Fish and Wildlife

12 thoughts on “DFG offers apprentice deer hunt

  1. environmentalist says:

    oh good, a chance for a bunch of amateurs to play Big Game Hunter. Shooting and maiming is such manly fun. – “deer, elk, wild pigs and a host of other wildlife species” kill whatever moves – Well done, fish and game. environmentalists: contributing to a shared future.

  2. Ken Steers says:

    environmentalist you have a very poor perspective of today’s hunter. I would invite you to go hunting yourself one day. The youthful excitement and energy expressed by a young person in anticipation for their first hunt is truly inspiring.

  3. environmentalist says:

    Right, Mr. Steers – not sharing your perspective I’m not “inspired” by the “youthful excitement” of the kill.

  4. Kathleen Newell says:

    Environmentalist. Just use your real name. Quit hiding. If you’re gonna bash someone, then show yourself. Coward.

  5. (cowardly) environmentalist says:

    Kathleen Newell, no people are named so I don’t know who you saw “bashed”. In case you’re wondering, my comment wasn’t an indirect 2nd amendment attack. And I do know that guns made possible our great civilization. Just consider me culturally handicapped. Though culturally appropriate, killing for sport doesn’t seem to me very sporting. I don’t like fox hunting. I don’t like bear baiting. I don’t like corporate meat farming. I don’t like deer hunting. And those just for starters. Sorry about that. I admit to being cowardly through and through, with or without a name.

  6. wondering says:

    Ken- is is still traditional to have a kid rub his face in the dead deer’s guts after he makes his first kill? good times…

  7. Ken Steers says:

    I’ve never heard of that one? Is it still your custom to stuff a live gerbil up your rectom at parties? Some people and their strange customs. Good times in deed.

  8. gourmet says:

    “Wondering” will enjoy an old family favorite, Deer Hunter’s Stew. INGREDIENTS: 1 lb. deer;
    3 potatoes;
    1 onion;
    1 stalk celery;
    1/2 bell pepper;
    1 qt. tomatoes;
    1 can kidney beans;
    2 tbsp. Lea and Perrin Worcestershire sauce;
    Dash of hot sauce;
    1 tsp. garlic salt;
    Salt and pepper to taste;
    Cooking wine to taste;
    SERVE topped with finely chopped very expensive hard to find hunters’ balls.

  9. Doc Holiday says:

    environmentalist: That cow you eat from the store didn’t die of old age.

  10. Ken Steers says:

    I have fond memories of steering, dehorning and branding calves as a boy. The old men would cook up the rocky mountain oysters served in stuffing, yummy. Today I’m not PC for eating what I hunt. Now I’m not supposed to have that chicken sandwich, next will be no more Rocky Mountain oysters with my patee. Enviromentalist have become that mean old aunt that just doesn’t like you, criticizes you and doesnt let you have any fun. Well don’t like her either.

  11. robertdnoll says:

    gourmet,before you swallow do you chew or suck them down whole?

  12. gourmet says:

    Being 100x the price of saffron and way scarcer than hen’s teeth they’re generally omitted. Seek advice at epicurious.com.

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