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I just talked with my wife's friend and found out your not even supposed to pick up a road kill. If you want to collect a roadkill, you go down to the county sheriff's office and sign up. Then when a roadkill is reported, the dispatcher sends out a deputy. If it's a valid call, the deputy tells the dispatcher who in turn calls people on the list until they find someone on the list to come collect the deer. So if you're driving down the road and a deer runs out in front of you and you hit it doing a couple of thousands of dollars damage to your vechile, you can't claim the deer unless you're on the list! GOD! I love our government! Always good for a laugh.

KEEP IT LEGAL. KEEP IT SAFE. OR WE MAY NOT GET TO KEEP IT AT ALL.

Had something very similer happen to me this year. Long story short I ended up using a knife on the deer. I won't ever forget the sounds it made. It was a very difficult thing to do, and I hope I never have to do it again. That said I am glad I did what needed done. I don't know what I would have done if I hadn't had my knife with me, but you did the right thing for sure.

TAKE YOUR KIDS HUNTING AND YOU WON'T BE HUNTING FOR YOUR KIDS

Thank you guys for backing me up on what I did. I understand there is a pretty significant LEGALITY on taking down a deer that is suffering. I think that Cardeer probably has the best idea, as far as the legality end of it goes. I've since gotten over it. But at the time, I wasn't feeling very well about the whole deal.

Barile, Your post confirms something I have suspected for years. Four years ago I was helping a guy track a gut shot a deer. When we found it he had traveled about a mile and had bedded up and been pushed many times (public land). I noticed this deer had crusty deposits by what I imagined were tear ducts. I was so bummed when I saw this, I was convinced the deer had suffered and was certain it had been crying. I did not want to apply human traits to an animal but that is how it seemed. This was before I had ever harvested a deer and even though I know bad hits happen it made me determined to not take bad angle shots like this guy had done. So far I have been fortunate, all my harvest have been short recoveries.

James Vee, One day I was driving home and saw a young man in a ditch cradling a button buck. I stopped and saw the deer was dieing but it seemed at ease. This fellow was no hunter and asked if I knew how to end this deer’s suffering, I said yes but I did not have my knife. A lady who lived near by came over and said she called the police and got the run around. They said it was a conservation problem or sheriff’s problem. She called a number they gave her (I don't know which) and they said they could not come out right away. Soon another guy stopped and came out of his truck with a hammer. I told the young man that I was not staying to watch this and he might want to do the same. It is hard to see this stuff but it happens. Nature is cruel, if anti-hunters understood how people like us respect these deer I don't think it would change their minds but it would take away from their argument against hunting. You won't forget this incident but try to categorize the experience as a fact of life.
Bill

I had an incident like that this spring on a fawn. It was very ironic because the guy that hit it was and proclaimed animal rights activist in Omaha. I had a knife in my truck. He was just standing there watching this deer bleat with a crushed pelvis but not dying. When he saw what I was going to do he said he had to leave. I told him to stivck around because he was advocating no hunting and I told him this sight would be repeated over and over if hunting was banned. I double lunged it and it was over in a few seconds. I don't know if he converted or not but he thanked me for ending it before he got in his car and left. I understand him in a way. They don't want to see animals suffer and I feel the same way. They just don't realize that the nonhunting ways of death are more brutal than a well placed arrow.

THWACK!

really sad situation but i like what rob had to say

I have something I would like to pass on that I read several years ago. It was written by someone of the stature of Leonard Lee Rue III, I'm not sure if he was the author. What he said was that when a prey animal is injured their brain causes their body to release a chemical that deadens pain. He had a name for it, I don't remember what he called it. I have no idea if it is true, I sure hope it is, it would be nice if nature did this for them. I do not remember reading that prey animals produce tears when injured, I would think that they do have tear ducts though, to lubricate their eyes.

Bad deal, it shows the true compassion we do have for animals even though we are thought of as blood thirsty freaks by some. I had to finish a moose off last year with a knife. It was illegal, but I wasn't about to let it keep flopping around in the road. Let them prosecute me for putting it down. Regardless, nobody saw, and the moose was salvaged by the state.
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This is a subject that I've been thinking about for a couple of weeks since our trip to Tionesta, PA. As we were driving home we came around a bend in the road and there was a doe right on the white line - it looked as if it was bedded down there. So it was obvious that someone had just hit it. The doe was in a bad spot where you couldn't pull off the road so we just kept going and argued over whether or not you are allowed to put the deer out of its misery. I think I will talk to a game warden or state trooper to see what they say. It's scary out there at night, especially where I live. There's hardly a night goes by where I don't spot deer right alongside our main route - summer or winter. Two weeks ago a friend of mine totaled her Jeep thanks to a buck. It's antler gored the hood and crumpled everything in front and the fenders and door on the drivers side. What do we do?
Slug hunting in Allegheny Co. tomorrow with the hubby. Will let you all know if we're lucky! <img src=icon_smile_wink.gif border=0 align=middle>