Deer Cloning: ethical, unethical, or a non issue?

[Bigjay73]

What are your thoughts?

A Texas Rancher Cloned Deer For Years. Some Lawmakers Want To Legalize It.

The Lone Star State has long muddled the line between hunting and farming. Now cloning may help game ranches breed big bucks.

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[El Jason]

Why not just make a cast of what you want the rack on the wall to look like?

Not my cup of tea.

 

[Rzrbck918]

I think of penned deer as livestock instead of game animals. I don't have an issue with them improving them how they see fit. In my mind its not a lot different than how I raise cattle. We AI and IVF top tier cattle regularly. I don't think they should be allowed into the wild population.

 

[rwc101]

I think it's a bad look for hunters. Given how well Texans keep their exotics from escaping shooting preserves I worry about tainting the wild deer population with some dude's genetic experiments.

 

[OntarioHunter]

Only in Texas! Why am I not surprised.

Brings to mind the B&C dispute a couple years back when the young girl in holey blue jeans and tee shirt shot the record buck from a Louisiana tree stand that just happened to escape from neighbour's game farm earlier in the day. Was it fair chase or a big $$$ setup? Farmed big bucks and bulls are being released for trophy hunting all the time. Sick. Like the above poster said, it gives North American hunting a bad name. Very bad. Texas has been in the business of doing that for a long time. No longer the Lone Star State ... been the Canned Hunt State for as long as I've been hunting.

 

[hank4elk]

Sounds like another route for a CWD type deal to me. Or BS as I would say.

 

[Otto Matic]

I think of penned deer as livestock instead of game animals. I don't have an issue with them improving them how they see fit. In my mind its not a lot different than how I raise cattle. We AI and IVF top tier cattle regularly. I don't think they should be allowed into the wild population.

Yeah...well.

Only in Texas! Why am I not surprised.

Brings to mind the B&C dispute a couple years back when the young girl in holey blue jeans and tee shirt shot the record buck from a Louisiana tree stand that just happened to escape from neighbour's game farm earlier in the day. Was it fair chase or a big $$$ setup? Farmed big bucks and bulls are being released for trophy hunting all the time. Sick. Like the above poster said, it gives North American hunting a bad name. Very bad. Texas has been in the business of doing that for a long time. No longer the Lone Star State ... been the Canned Hunt State for as long as I've been hunting.

Don't pin it all on Texas. Texas may be big, but it doesn't hold a monopoly on exotics, deer "ranching" and high fence operations.
Still LOT'S of free range hunting in Texas.

The Ford Ranch in Brady, Tx has been developing deer bloodlines for ages. No high fence.Everything is free range.

 

[Hilljackoutlaw]

I like my deer racks like I like a different kind of rack all natural.

 

[Deleted member 28227]

Why not just make a cast of what you want the rack on the wall to look like?

Not my cup of tea.

Better yet make a cast of the rack, tape it to a deer, shoot it.

We can do it all over the west, solve the sniveling about LE tag allocations right here and now.

Gonna be a big run on duct tape in 2022 in MT.

 

[Corn king 60]

Sounds like another route for a CWD type deal to me. Or BS as I would say.

I’m with you on this.
why can’t man let GOD and nature determine what lives on his planet

 

[Dakotakid]

If they could clone a bighorn sheep that was immune to pneumonia...

 

[OntarioHunter]

I’m with you on this.
why can’t man let GOD and nature determine what lives on his planet

Yep. Cloning entirely eliminates any genetic contribution from the maternal side. Animals are reproduced solely from genetic material of the buck. Zero evolution ... = extinction. It will be interesting to see if the "children" have exact duplicate antlers of the parent or will environmental factors shape their racks differently. Interesting to know ... but that's it. Ultimately cloning is counterproductive for the species if it is to remain truely wild ... which seems doubtful in any event. Example: Quality Deer Management