RE: Deer carcass dumping
 

The worst thing you can do with deer remains is throw them in a stream or creek from a bridge but unfortunately I see way too much of that. Scavengers can't take full advantage of the remains when it's under water.
I also see more than enough remains dumped at pull ins and roadside, never could understand why a fella couldn't drag them back into the woods at least 20 yards or so, might still be able to smell it but at least the casual passerby won't see it. I normally carry 2 coolers in the truck, one for meat and the other for remains that I drag back into the woods. Digging a hole is the prescribed method but quite honestly very impractical.
JUST DON'T THROW THEM INTO THE WATER!!!

Mark

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RE: Deer carcass dumping
 

Its a bad situation when this happens. I am opening it back up for suggestions on what to do but please try to keep in that direction and not talk about dumping carcusses in plain view. The antis will take that and run with it. My suggestion would be contact a local taxidermist and ask him how he goes about it or even if the local grocery store butcher has any idears.

Thanks Timbercruiser for the e-mail

Edited by - mdbohuntr on 12/18/2002 14:42:10

RE: Deer carcass dumping
 

Lazy and illegal. I own my own land and when I have finished processing my deer I will take what is left over and place it out by a river that runs through my land. By the next day it will be eaten or draged off. If I am not on the land I will dig a hole and burry the remains (what little there are).

Be carful putting fish parts back in a lake. Most places it is illegal. What doesnt get eaten will pollute the water. As for a river I dont know, I dont get to fish rivers much.

"Nothing in all the world is more dangerous than sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity" Martin Luther King Jr.

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RE: Deer carcass dumping
 

I have on occasion...taken the hide and head of a deer and hang it off a tree and shoot coyotes at night....it pays pretty good here cause we have a $50 bounty on coyot's....not that this cures the problem....but burying them is about the best way to go....

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RE: Deer carcass dumping
 

I have the answer to this problem here in Wi the highway crews just paint the carcasses florecent orange and then leave them to rott along the roads it must make them less odvious to passing traffic or so I guess. lately I have been having to pay 28$ per head just to have dead stock hauled away by the rendering plant witch makes pure profit off of a farmers loss. So maybe the next time I lose a cow I will get me some of that spray paint and drag her out by the road to.<img src=icon_smile_big.gif border=0 align=middle>

(I can skin a buck or run a trout line)

RE: Deer carcass dumping
 

Fullback that is what my partner did with two rib cages ,hung them in a tree for coyote bait. Then when he went back that evening a bear had already got the bait .all there was left is the rope he used to hang them . The look on his face was priceless .

RE: Deer carcass dumping
 

I have my own woods and have quite a few fallen trees. I dump the carcus in the root hole and throw some logs on top. It dissappears by summer. I seldom see any bones around the woods, I wonder where it all goes. One Shot One Kill Striper Phil

RE: Deer carcass dumping
 

If you dump them in the woods, critters will clean them up. Dumping by the road is lazy.