I thought the number was high myself but can't argue it.

I can say this, when I called them to come out, he was here in 10 minutes.. I made a comment about him getting here so fast for a non-emergency call and he said he was 1/2 mile up the street for another deer..

ROFLMAO!!
I have no idea where that sarcasm comes from but I can certainly detect the meaning of it...

Funny..

Not sarcasm, honesty if you will believe it. Im from NC folks run dogs down here. Neighbor is a Sheriff deputy so hear some of his stories all the time. One thing he pointed out is once gun season opens up and they are allowed to run dogs, deer getting hit multiplies. He has said in a one mile stretch has seen 7 deer hit within 30 minutes from dogs running deer and in just one accident involved 3 deer and a dog the other dogs where safe but howling on the side of the hwy wanting to get out on the road. So is the number possible here sure but in a location where dogs arent being ran i think may stretch it for one man just a little.

I was heading out to go hunting one morning and watched a spike run at a truck,tripped trying to stop and the guys back tires ran over his head.I stopped and cheeked and he was dead so I took him home.I got back before it was even daylight and my wife asked what was wrong,I drug him out and told her "hey when you're good,you're good"LOL.

Many, many years ago I worked for the Colorado Highway Department doing highway maintenance. Our area was centered in Yampa and we went as far south as Dotsero, as far west as Kremmling and as for north as Steamboat Springs. We didn't go to the east because the Flattops Wilderness Area is just east of Yampa and there aren't any highways.

This area of CO is a major migration route in the winter for mulies and elk and a lot of them got hit by cars and trucks. Since we were on the road several times a day we knew how long a carcass had been there. We salvaged as many as we could that weren't torn up too bad. We would field dress them and call the game warden on the radio in the truck. Since it was a state radio, we could get the warden or the state patrol anytime we needed to. If we wanted to keep the animal for ourselves we would tell the warden and he would drop off a road kill certificate to our maintenance shed in Yampa. If we didn't want it or had all we could use we would stash the carcass in a snow bank and tell the warden where it was. He picked them up and the state gave to the poor folks in the area or those that were down on their luck. A lot of families were fed on roadkills in that area.

I've never understood the rationale of leaving good meat to rot on the side of the road. I'd be careful of just picking up any carcass but if it is fresh, the weather is cool or cold and it's not torn up too bad, why not? Even if only half of it is salvageable, that is still 30 lbs of burger at a minimum.

I saw ten deer and FOUR deer dogs dead last Monday. The VDOT guys were out there a few ours later picking them up. You can see the looks on the "out of towners" faces having no clue as to why these dogs are smeared down highway 58 like the deer a few feet away.

Tough way for a dog to make a living.
More dangerous than chasing bears.

Our Nephew hit a 7-Point Buck with his Moms Mini-Van a few weeks before Deer Season,I ended up driving down there to pick it up and drive to Town to our local County Sheriff's Dept. to get papers on it to have it processed......at least 2/3 of it was fine and didn't go to waste.On the way in I was driving very cautiously and had 3 more Deer run right out in front of me so I could see where a Law Enforcement Officer would be pretty busy during the Rut!

When I was in college in Central WI, I was getting a road kill almost every year. One my brother-in-law hit, one a roommate hit, and another a driver ahead of me hit. Road kills are fine to eat provided they are processed in time and not mangled too bad or guts spilled. The ones I got had almost no meat loss.

Deer up by us in N. WI are in such low numbers I can count the TOTAL number of road kills I have seen in our area all year on one hand. Good in that I don't have to dodge deer when I drive at night (at all) but not so great for hunting. And this fall I drove 2 nights a week from 9-10 PM and did not have to slow down for one deer.

I use to make weekly trips driving from Oklahoma to Mexico, moving a industrial plant down there. On one trip back I counted over 200 deer standing on the side of the road or eating in the bar ditches between the barbwire fence and the pavement. This was just outside of Uvalde, TX and all on 25 mile stretch of road. I wouldn't have believed it if I didn't them myself. This was around 5 or 6 am.