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My neighbor calls me yesterday and says there's a dead deer at the end of my driveway.
So I go down there and find the thing is still breathing.. Looks like her right front shoulder is caved in pretty good..

So I call up the local police and a deputy comes out and puts a round through her brain bucket for me and then issues a tag to make it all legal.

So we're sitting there chatting as we're both amazed at the size.. Definitely the alpha doe as she's the size of a six point buck. The deputy happens to be an avid hunter himself and after talking for about 20 minutes, I find out he doesn't do much this time of the year except run around putting down injured deer and issuing tags.
I asked him how many a day he does, he pauses for a second, and then I say "is it one or five or what?".. he's like, Oh No.. more like 20 to 25 per day... WTF??????

You know, if those deer would just cross next to the deer crossing signs like they're supposed to, we wouldn't have this problem! :happy0157:

He tells me that he has to carry two to three extra clips with him just so he has a reserve of ammo. LOL..

I had no idea...

Then he pulls out a photo of him and a giant 12 point buck with tines six to eight inches long... WoW!

Apparently we're putting those signs in the wrong places!!!:confused0024:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RFCrJleggrI

I know a guy that quit hunting years ago, but gets his venison from road kills every year. He told me that he usually gets enough meat from 3 deer a year, I guess it depends how badly damaged the deer are.

Usually I come across one freshly killed near my house each year . Right as it gets dark . Most of time I'm going by with in minutes of it hit. Sometimes I see it get it.
20-25 is a crazy amount. There is not much time between tagging and going to the next one.
I thought you were going to say he was setting you to give you more deer or go hunting with you.
If becomes across that many he should see about donating the mea to a homeless shelter or folks in need

PA is notorious for deer/vehicle accidents. I heard on the local radio that its one of the worst states for it (though it WAS the radio and I didn't do any background research so who knows). I used to travel back and forth from PA to WV a lot and to keep myself occupied, I'd always count the deer carcasses on the road.

20 a day seems like a lot but come to think of it, I see a lot of dead deer on the road. Some I've hauled off to the side by myself since they were left for dead in the middle of the road and was a traffic hazard.

Just had one of those this summer.. The deer was smeared (best description I can come up with) for about 100 yards.. there wasn't much to pick up but some chunks of fur.. the road was literally red on the northbound side.

I think most people who call him want to have it processed for themselves.

I'd be more concerned with how long they've been dead..

When the temps are mild, you don't get but a couple hours before it spoils. Maybe an extra couple hours when its cold.

Murby, he always waits until the temps drop down around freezing which usually happens pretty early in the season around here.

He also gets most of them on an 18 mile stretch of 4 lane HWY that he and friends travel on pretty much a daily basis. He doesn't take just any deer, he knows if they're fresh kills or not.

He's retired from the county, but also manages our local liquor store. Local meaning 6 miles from my home, and further from his, we're a very rural community. So he has a lot of friends in the region that tell him about fresh kills on the two lane roads.

I should also add that he never guts the deer, or brings the whole animal home. He takes the back straps, and anything salvageable from the hind quarters.

When my $hithead neighbors talk against me hunting I remind them that there are WAY more deer killed by vehicles than hunters...if you look up the statistics it is absolutely mind blowing! I even hit one with my truck two years ago after sitting in the woods for three hours and not seeing a damn thing...go figure. I was running 70mph when he jumped in front of me and destroyed the deer so there was no meat!