In an example of how activists can hinder law abiding sportsmen, the head of a local animal rights organization recently blocked a Connecticut bow hunter from harvesting a deer he had legally hunted and shot.

The incident took place in early October near Redding, Connecticut when the unnamed bow hunter shot a deer and then tracked it to the property of animal rightist Lynn Gorfinkle.  After knocking on the door of the Gorfinkle residence and asking permission to claim the deer, the hunter was told unceremoniously to leave the property without it.

Mrs. Gorfinkle is the head of the Animal Rights Alliance in Redding and a staunch opponent of hunting.  According to press accounts, Mrs. Gorfinkle stated, “If someone's going to eat that deer, I want it to be natural predators.”  As of press time, the dead deer, to no one’s surprise, was slowly decomposing in Mrs. Gorfinkle’s yard. 

Ironically, the actions of Mrs. Gorfinkle may result in the death of another deer.  According to the Communications Director of the Connecticut Department of Environmental Protection, which oversees deer hunting in the state, “since the hunter did not recover the deer, he did not need to tag it and it doesn't count toward his bag limit.”

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