First Buck of the season

Many years back in PA I stopped to help an older woman who took out a deer on a back road..
Once the cops showed up, I asked what they were gonna do with it.

They told me standards are to call game commission, unless I wanted it.. \he gave me a note stating it was fresh roadkill..
I tossed it in my truck, took it back to my townhouse, drug it out back and gutted it..
I was the talk ( in a bad way) of the townhouse board members..

Ski Pro 3 wrote:
California won't allow road killed deer to be harvested. Their concern is that too many will use their 5000 pound Buick and deliberately harvest deer, so, no go.

I can't imagine very many people would intentionally crash their car into a deer to harvest the meat. Not only would it be pretty tough to do with any regularity, it doesn't make any sense from an economic standpoint. California is a beautiful state, a huge contributor to the economy and I enjoy vacationing there, but it can be awfully kooky.

Did the accident knock the horns off? I'm surprised no one has commented on the title and the sex of the deer. Lol! A shot deer and a road kill deer are probably just about the same amount of work to process. I think I would have went the food closet route.

California won't allow road killed deer to be harvested. Their concern is that too many will use their 5000 pound Buick and deliberately harvest deer, so, no go.

Depending on how rural the area at the time, I've been known to throw one in the bed, drive a ways down a dirt road, and take the back straps and perhaps a few roasts off hind quarter if not damaged. Blood shot deer meat is terrible. Tastes like liver.

I have hit deer more ways than most people can dream of. I live in Wisconsin which has more deer per mile than most places.(Check a deer density map, Most of WI is shown in red, meaning a lot of deer.) I commuted about 100 miles per day when I worked. i have hit deer with Toyota pickup, Chevy Astro, Hyundai Accent, Kia, Honda Nighthawk motorcycle, Honda Goldwing motorcycle, garden tractor (I was mowing the yard and a deer was laying down in my wifes raspberry patch and it jumped up and ran into me) a deer ran into me while I was riding bicycle, I was coasting down a trail at night on my cross country skis and a deer ran into me.
Road kill that isn't hit bad is pretty tasty. Many of them have a broken neck and when you butcher them, you can't find any damage. My kids ate several road kill deer when they were young. I still feed some families with deer that I pick up. In Sauk County where I live, we just all the sheriff and inform them of a deer carcass, and they tell us that we can take them. No tags needed. there is a 10 mile stretch of county road near me that gets about 4 deer kills a week according to the sheriff. By the way, we pay a 10% insurance penalty on our comprehensive overage.

Perrysburg Dodgeboy wrote:
Who needs a hunting license when you have a mighty RAM LOL

That will cost more than a hunting license and that is a wimpy deer too. Pretty wimpy bumper too.

You can the cops and get a humane kill tag? Usually they will put the animal ouyt of it's misery and give you a human kill tag so you can get what is left processed.

I've always put a cow catcher (grille guard) on every truck and SUV I've owned. My wife has bumped a few deer but so far I have not. My Dad would bag a deer every other year with his car, never hunted after Korea and growing up on a subsistence farm, eating deer as his primary protein while growing up.

I got my first out of season 153 lb doe with my new 3 week old '01 2500 Dodge/Cummins.
I was lucky as she suddenly tried to jump away from my truck as she ran across the highway. Her feet went out from under her on the pavement and down she went under the truck. She came from hood high weeds on the side of a secondary state two lane highway. I didn't even have time to brake..... I was moving at 55 mph. Nothing broke other than knocked the drivers side of the front bumper under a bit. Loosened the bolts and pulled it back to OEM looks.

Trooper says officially I have to tell you to call a state game ranger but he says the ranger was at the state capital and he couldn't tell me not to take the damz thing home.

Ground it all up with 20 lbs of pork fat and made some great tasting burgers.

What a mess.

I am with oldMaple. I have been known to have road kill hanging in the barn. Pends on how they were hit. Matter of fact i had some yummy venison stew last eve for supper.