Road Kill Dinner (Poll of sorts)
#21
RE: Road Kill Dinner (Poll of sorts)
I R a Red Neck![] Sorry couldn't resist. Yep I've eaten road kill. Actually depends where it was hit. Front shoulders are OK, cause there's not much meat there anyway. Just took the tenders, backstraps and both rear haunches. Yum, Yum. If they've been hit in the rear, there's usually not much to salvage. Jello...Yuck!
#23
RE: Road Kill Dinner (Poll of sorts)
I said help me through it in my truck but upon skinning it, most all the meat was jelly....I had to discard of it
i just eat roadkill possum ....they are better
#25
Join Date: Sep 2003
Posts: 368
RE: Road Kill Dinner (Poll of sorts)
Used to years ago but get enough of my own venison now. In NJ you have to get a tag from the police and it is illegal to take even the rack off a buck if you don't have that tag. Silly isn't it? Does anyone have these laws in other states?
Last night I cut the spikes off a road kill for my son. He liked how small it was!
Don't tell anyone!
Greg
Last night I cut the spikes off a road kill for my son. He liked how small it was!
Don't tell anyone!
Greg
#26
Join Date: Sep 2003
Location: Maine
Posts: 3,555
RE: Road Kill Dinner (Poll of sorts)
I have on a couple of occasions. My mother hit a deer back about 8-9 years ago and the police let her bring it home. I's a messy job to process the deer as a collision with a car makes a mess of the animal. blunt trama isn't pretty under the hide.
I also know a guy who's the local harbor master and he generally gets the calls if the person who hits the deer dosn't want it. H'e give me a few 5lb bags of venison sausage that is absolutely delicious.
I'm not into eating opossum or racoon or squirell or pole kitty but a fresh deer kill shuldn't IMO be passed up. You won't get as much meat as if it were shot with a bow but anything that is recovered is better then letting the deer rot. If the a particular quarter looks bad then scrap it. If you can only salvage 1 side of the deer that ok too.
I also know a guy who's the local harbor master and he generally gets the calls if the person who hits the deer dosn't want it. H'e give me a few 5lb bags of venison sausage that is absolutely delicious.
I'm not into eating opossum or racoon or squirell or pole kitty but a fresh deer kill shuldn't IMO be passed up. You won't get as much meat as if it were shot with a bow but anything that is recovered is better then letting the deer rot. If the a particular quarter looks bad then scrap it. If you can only salvage 1 side of the deer that ok too.
#27
Join Date: Dec 2003
Location: Kent County, MD
Posts: 64
RE: Road Kill Dinner (Poll of sorts)
I havent tried it it nor seeing myself doing it unless i was the one who hit it. I would only keep that deer bc it costed me enough in car repairs. Sick i know but other then that i dont see i would.
#28
Join Date: Feb 2003
Location: Dodge Center MN USA
Posts: 105
RE: Road Kill Dinner (Poll of sorts)
I have eaten "roadkill" more than once. I actually got to work one day and found out a person had just hit one on the road and ran out there with a friend and the deputy put it down with some buckshot, so it wasn't even dead when I got there. It would have gone to waste otherwise. That particular deer was hit in the front, and both hindquarters and the backstraps were in perfect condition. Tasted great!
#29
RE: Road Kill Dinner (Poll of sorts)
My brother and i hit one in a van, We keeped it, skin it out, the only thing we were able to save was the back strapes, I don`t` have any problems with it at all