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- From: doug@designview.Prime.COM (Doug Fosdick)
- Subject: German Short-haired Pointers & venison
- Date: 22 Jan 93 10:06:14 CST
- Approved: hunting@osnome.che.wisc.edu
- Message-ID: <1993Jan22.100614.25605@doug.cae.wisc.edu>
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- Originator: hunting@osnome.che.wisc.edu
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- Robert Walton asks:
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- >Thoughts on (or better yet experience with) the German Pointers? How do
- >they do on the above criteria? Yellow labs? Other breeds? Advice
- >appreciated.
-
- I looked into getting aGerman short hair ~a year ago. They seem to
- be ideal all around dogs (esp. for hunting). The only thing that I was
- cautioned on regarding them is that they are high strung. They like to
- be active. Depending on your family / home situation this may not
- be an issue. I was told that they are good with kids.
-
- I don't have one, so this may be inaccurate info.
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- RE: buying venison:
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- >>By the way, venison sells for $8-$14 per pound here. Since I wasn't
- >>able to hunt this year, I can tell you my table doesn't serve venison
- >>as often as I might like!
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- >It's legal to buy venison where you live? I didn't think it was legal
- >to buy venison anywhere in the US.
-
- It is my understanding that it is illegal to sell native venison
- which has been hunted anywhere in the U.S. However, ranch raised venison
- is legal to sell. Most, if not all, ranched raised venison is not
- whitetail, or mule deer, but some deer from the far east (axis deer maybe).
- NZ evidently has a thriving business raising deer and selling the venison
- on the world market. This is the venison that expensive restaurants serve.
-
- - Doug
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