Deer Roundup🦌 Mad Scientist Supreme on the Deer Roundup
In this fall-prep episode, the Mad Scientist Supreme proposes a high-efficiency, low-tech, team-based approach to hunting: the deer roundup. Drawing on ancient communal hunting techniques, he suggests a modern adaptation using friends, noise, predator pheromones—and a bit of clever engineering—to humanely and efficiently harvest venison for the year.
🏹 Ancient Tactics, Modern Twist
In the old days, villages would form a wide human circle and slowly drive animals toward a central point by shouting, clanging, and walking inward. Once the animals were surrounded, spears and arrows did the rest. Today, you can simulate the same strategy with a circle of people and a perimeter of big cat urine and scat, available from a website called ZooPoo. Since deer have ancestral memories of predators like saber-toothed lions, the scent of wild cats sends them running—right into your trap.
🧪 The ZooPoo Strategy
Lay predator scent lines in a V-shape narrowing into a deer enclosure—a large pen with walls high enough to prevent escape. Then, have friends bang pots, yell, and drive the deer toward the open end. As the deer flee forward (avoiding the predator-smelling sides), they’ll naturally funnel into the enclosure. Once inside, the hunters close the gate, pull out their tags, and ethically harvest the deer one at a time.
🥩 Efficient, Legal, and Tasty
This strategy is for meat hunters, not sport hunters. The goal is food efficiency, not a man-versus-nature challenge. For legal compliance, each hunter should hold the appropriate number of tags, and each deer should be processed accordingly. With a mobile slaughterhouse at the ready, the process can even be industrialized—much like how cattle are herded into narrow chutes leading to slaughter, the deer can be guided from the pen into single-file lines for humane processing.
👨‍👩‍👧‍👦 A Community Approach
This isn’t just hunting—it’s a group food mission. Friends can gather, plan the roundup, and take on roles: some as drivers, others in the enclosure, and a few managing meat processing. Everyone gets a fair share, legally and efficiently, and with significantly less time investment than traditional single-rifle hunting.
🍖 Practical and Delicious
While it may not appeal to those seeking a sporting experience, the roundup model could revolutionize subsistence hunting—making it cleaner, faster, and more effective for people looking to feed their families all winter. And best of all? Fewer deer in overpopulated zones, fewer car accidents, and more food on the table.
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