Would you ever pick up road kill?
 

With the amount of deer hit by cars would you pick up one that was hit that had good meat?

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Only after reporting it to aLEO and released to me by aFHP or FGW!:)

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I travel alot and have hit 7 deer since 2001. That being said, I bring most home if they aren't torn up. Why wouldn't you?

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Yes depending on it's condition.

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sure i would...Was driving home a week or two ago and saw a real pretty gray fox hit.stoped and looked at it and it had real nice bushy coat on it and was not tore up at all...well to say the least it is at the taxi right now..and i didn't even kill it..

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i would if i knew it was hit recently, if i could take it legally.


cardeer used to talk about driving around looking for roadkill, if it was still warm he would take it. i dont see why not for something like a deer. i wouldnt pick up a skunk or coon, at least not for food.

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our FHP will call me if a deer has been hit in my area. i tell them that if it is still alive when they arrive on scene, i will come and get it. i've also picked up unclaimed cows that have been hit. just because these animals die a different way other than being shot doesn't mean the meat should go to waste.

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Yeah, but you are a LEO....:D:D:D

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Oh why yes I would and do! Where do you think I get the venison I give away to the beggars and moochers?

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I put no simply because the ones I've come across are either too tore up or bloated. Now if I seen the deer get hit I'd pick it up, and go through the proper channels. We have to contact IDNR.

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yep make good coyote bait,,,just take some bailing wire and tie em to a fence post or tree where they cant be draged off ,,,took alot of bobcats and yotes like that...and hunt it..

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No I would not, but that is more to do with my "cleanliness" issues and not because I disapprove or think it unsafe.

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depends on how fresh it is, and how much damage there is to the body. if it is too beat up there isnt much point.

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hey swamp rooster i live in tenn too and if my memory serves me right baiting for anything is illegal..

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probably not. but if i hit it i probably would

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yes i would and have on a few occasions been right there when its been hit so if it is in good shape yes






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RE: Would you ever pick up road kill?
 

Not just NO but Hell NO.

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No...

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i think this poll should have had a "yes, if i can be sure of its freshness" option

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I heard that there's a deer hit by a car every six minutes in Michigan. So I traded my gun for an old Buick and I just drive around until Ihit my limit.

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I havent but always wondered ...what if? I thought that the insides of deer would get all busted up and the meat would bruise. I would take the bucks rack if it were decent. A buddy got a mink and had it mounted.

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Never have and never will. My freezer is usually full of game so I don't need more. I have enough of a problem eating it all as it is. Antlers wouldn't mean a thing to me unless it was something I shot.

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when my freezer became full, i bought another freezer. several times a year i'll have a big cook out for family and friends. normally each cookout i usually go through 2 hawgs and a couple of deer. so meat never goes to waste at my house.

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I would if it was a fresh kill

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HEY BRUSHY , not sure about using roadkill for bait is legal or not to hunt predators ,dont really care ,if i get it out of the road and haul it off looks to me thats its dead and gona be eatin by varments anyway so why not bait with it .. A fresh roadkill keeps alot of coyotes in the area ....you just need to worry about you. Have a nice day.

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no but i would get the rack if it was big.

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Same here, if saw the vehicle hit it and the damage was minimal and didn't include oozing guts I'd break out the cell and call the sheriff for a trans tag. Anything I couldn't use is always greatly appreciated by my Lab, you should see her scarf down some lung sometime.

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only if it's got a nice rack, same rule applies for hitch hikers

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If I was the opne who killed it, or I knew the one who did, and the damage was not bad .... you betcha:)

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If I'm pretty sure it's a fresh kill within an hour or two.

I've seen moose hit and left to rot and wonder why someone who hit it wouldn't try to salvage parts of it that aren't bruised up.

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I have had about 3 encounters with deer roadkills that I've been involved in or witnessed it. Every time the deer ran into the side of the vehicle with little damage to the meat. You damn straight I'm going to throw it in the back of my truck. I have to eat just as the buzzards and I too have plenty of game but as said earlier I know people as I who aren't above it so share it.

Bobby

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My car, my kill.........I wouldnt feel verysatisfiedwithanother mans harvest. ;) You know the type, they jump in someone elses picture and claim it to be theirs with this huge outlandish story......does anyone know someone who has done just that, I DO! I can see the story now "I was driving 75 mph, ten over the legal ya know. Then all of a sudden I see a little movement to my east and Islowly move my gas pedal alittle deeper. As I peer into the area I realize it is a 190 class buck with split G2's. I use my hood ornament as my sight system until I get him centered. I give a blow on my horn tube to get him to stop broadside. Now he is 25 yards away staring my headlights down and I let it fly, 980 fps with 25,000 pounds per square inch of hitting power, this is as clean as it gets. WHAM a clean hitand all I see are hoves, fur, and antlers go flying allover the place. The funny thing is I thought I heard himmake a sound like 'gnaaaaaaw'right before impact. Needless to say he didnt go 15 yards but his whole back end was completely ripped off but his antlers were in perfect condition. I will take a cloudy picture much like the ones turned in this year in bow hunting contest and claim it as a bow kill." End of story :D

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Been there done that. I have hit 2 deer that I have taken home and butchered. One was a little expensive by the pound, $3000 damage to the front of my truck. A friend of mine Knows a cop that calls him when they have a fresh one that is in good shape. He gets a few every year.

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my family has done it before ...

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Yes and No.


I would never take back the meat, it could have peices of metal, rubber, etc.

I WOULD, however, if it's a buck, stop over and take his antlers off, that way I get free rattling antlers for the rut.

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I would take themhome if they are still worth eating. I once had to finish one off with the pistol in the ditch.

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why not as long as it was fresh and not badly messed up.

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That's a big no-no in most places. WY Game Wardens set up surveilance on known road-kill bucks sometimes to catch people trying to take the antlers.

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Why? That's STUPID!!!!!

Why don't they take the buck off the road to keep it from spreading CWD instead of putting a camera there to look at who's going to want to salvage it!

It's not a no-no here in TN, a friend of mine did it.

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I would and I have. Not to eat, but more so out of respect for the animals that I love to hunt. It is hard to explain why one would respect a creature that they try very hard to hunt down and kill. I think it has to do with us being the most skilled of predators, hunting the most skilled animal of prey. Kind of a mutual respect thing, like two fighters in the ring, trying to kill each other for the length of a fight and then shaking hands at the end. To the outsider, it looks as if they hate each other, but in reality, they have much respect for each other, and in their own way, show it.

I clean them up or slide them down the hill out of site, just as I'd want to be out of sight for passersby when it is my time.