One of the Cincy radio stations is doing a brief report on the topic of "Road Poaching." This is where people cut the antlers off of road kill deer. Seems to me that is stretching the definition of poaching a bit.
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I think that many states allow someone to keep a road kill deer if they take the time to call it in to the DNR. But, there are now more dead deer than rabbits along side the road, so it seems like a lot of trouble. I don't bother with road kill deer. By the time that the season is over, I am turning down venison from regular hunting. And I'm not an antler collector. But, on the other hand, i can visualize someone poaching a deer for the rack, then claiming that they got it off a road kill.
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I'd cut them off for rattling. But I have heard that if you have a rack, or head mounted, you should keep it tagged. Otherwise, the ODNR could sieze it as though it were poached. I believe Cardeer(maybe someone else on the board) in PA, had some mule deer antlers confiscated because they weren't tagged. It may be a fuzzy memory, but I seem to remember that they were mounted outside on a barn, or garage. A passing officer stopped and took them.
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RE: Road Kill Poaching
I agree, not poaching. I do know some states will not allow a person to take road kill, or any part of road kill in an attempt to keep people from intentionally hitting animals with theirvehicles. Some people will blatantly hit deer with their cow catcher bumpers then come back and take their racks. I just don't see this as a real common practice, or at least to the point of making a major issue.
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Some years I pick up a roadkill if someone I know hits it.Were supposed to get a tag from the DNR but I know the one for this area.Hes a busy guy and knows me well enough he usually doesnt bother coming out to see the deer, he just says he will mail me a tag and usually forgets to do it anyway.
Hes also in the past let me put a deer down with my gun thats lying on the road, still alive and suffering.
But a few years ago I was finding deer that had been shot with a rifle during archery season, there were quite a few poached and left to rot that year and I couldnt get him to come look at those either.Found 3 dead bucks in one field, another guy found 7 dead deer scattered down a fenceline bordering on some public ground that had been shot at different times.Finally they killed a big one across the road from the wildlife refuge but didnt have the balls to pick it up after they shot it.The DNR on that one occasion when there was a large set of antlers involved went out of thier way to get there as fast as they could.
That time the deer wasnt a nuisance, it was "evidence".The evidence can now be seen gracing the garage walls of the county conservation officer that decided he wanted the rack, that was all that ever came of it, no further investigation took place.I found over 2 dozen deer by myself that fall and into the following spring and that was the only one anyone came to look at.
I lost a lot of respect for that law that year, it did absolutely nothing to prevent poaching and on the one occassion I really wanted a tag the DNR siezed the antlers and kept them for themselves.I wont call for another tag on a big deer, Ill just cut the antlers off myself and take em home like everyone else does.
Road Kill Poaching
