Ever ate roadkill?
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Ever ate roadkill?
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RE: Ever ate roadkill? - 10/12/2009 10:46:21 PM
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Archery_NUT
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heck ya! if you dont have any meat in the freezer during the off season and you know the deer is still good and not ruined! we have done this before! in michigan you just have to get approval from the police and they give you a tag i think! but i know you can get in trouble here for just picking them up!
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RE: Ever ate roadkill? - 10/12/2009 10:51:58 PM
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TwistedX
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I have done this with two deer. One was a small seven point that a guy we knew hit right in front of our house on thursday of gun season four years ago maybe. The other was the year after that on thursday of gun season my dads, cousins, wife hit it if you can follow that lol. They called us and i went and got it. The first one dad shot with a 22 LR the lady cop found out about that and just about hauled him away. The second one i took the same 22 but chose to let the cop shoot it with his gun. So we are about twenty feet away, 10:30 at night the cop draws his pistol, takes aim and boom! Up jumps the deer it stands there looking at the cop, it has to be thinking what?! Can this day get any worse?! First I get hit by a car, now i'm getting shot at?! Screw Me! The cop shoots again, the deer limps a bit down the side of the road and again the cop shoots and misses. This must have caught the deers attention because it stopped and the cop finally hit it. I was 16 at the time and had killed many coon with that 22 pistol i had in the truck and the cop maybe 35, tons of range time and practice. I am twenty and one of our county sheriffs do the Concealed Carry Coarses in my uncles garage. He has told me that if i were to be in a building with that pistol he would send swat in instead of coming in himself. Point is i could have killed that deer in one shot and it not known what was going down but he shot 4 times and hit it in the kneck!!!! however he did stay and help me gut it right on the side of us rt 131
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RE: Ever ate roadkill? - 10/12/2009 10:54:07 PM
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Woods Walker
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There's usually a few deer killed along the road within a 1/4 mile of my place. I have 400' of frontage, and several have been hit and died right in my front yard. One was on Christmas eve, just before we had guests over. Fortunately one of the first guests to arrive was my brother-in-law, so I tossed him a pair of bibs and some gloves, and he helped me get it in the front end loader and then gutted in the back field before we hung it in the barn. I always said that Santa came a little early for me that year!
There was one shoulder that I trimmed most of the meat from and threw away, but the rest of the deer was fine, as he was killed almost instantly.
Nothing wrong with it as long as it's recently killed, and it's not too mangled.
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RE: Ever ate roadkill? - 10/12/2009 11:03:55 PM
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bowhuntingbiker
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Nope. Never. Would if not too tore up, though. BHB
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RE: Ever ate roadkill? - 10/12/2009 11:15:20 PM
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hunt4fun
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Never have, don't really want to either. If I have to go to all the trouble of gutting and butchering a deer, I like to have a good hunting story to go with it. On the other hand, if I hit the deer with my vehicle, I at least want some meat as a concelation prize to the bill I will be paying the auto repair man. Plus I hate to kill something and let it go to waste.
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RE: Ever ate roadkill? - 10/12/2009 11:20:03 PM
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Everyday Hunter
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About 15 years ago I had just gone to bed. It was 11:00 and the phone rang. A neighbor said his wife had just hit a small deer about two miles away. He wondered if I wanted it. I told him I didn't, but he bent my ear a while and I finally figured out he wanted half of it, but didn't want to do the work himself. So I said OK. We went down and I gutted the deer in the ditch beside the road, and brought it home. The next day I went to the deputy game warden and did the proper paperwork to keep it.
This brings up another topic. Some people who poach deer for the sake of the family don't really need to do that. My experience with game wardens is that they attend to many road kills and are happy to give deer to almost anyone who asks. I know if I wanted a deer for the meat, I could get one almost any time.
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RE: Ever ate roadkill? - 10/13/2009 12:14:31 AM
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AlleganBowhunter
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Yep makes for some decent venison if conditions are right. If your butchering yourself your all set. Not sure if it would be worth taking it to a processor though (#1 Cost vs amount of usable meat, #2 personally wouldn't trust them to clean all the bad stuff out).
May want to check with your local police department/county. We have a road kill list our officers can use to find someone willing to take roadkill deer so it is not wasted. Neat program but we really don't use it often.
Happy Hunting!
< Message edited by AlleganBowhunter -- 10/13/2009 12:16:21 AM >
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RE: Ever ate roadkill? - 10/13/2009 7:26:38 AM
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coach
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Yes I did....
I was driving to work one morning, when a 7 point buck jumped in front of my truck.
In traffic...there must of been 5,000 cars in front of me....and 5,000 behind. The deer jump in front
of my truck.
- 3600$ damage on my Nissan Xterra.
- 1 morning off work.
- 200 $ to make pepperets and Kabosa
- back up traffic because of my incident.....me sitting in the truck with a buck down drinking warm
coffee in a cold December morning...........waiting for the police...........PRICELESS.
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RE: Ever ate roadkill? - 10/13/2009 9:04:19 AM
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Wanderer
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In 1970, I lived in Waupaca county Wisconsin. I went to work for the State of Wisconsin as a Special Conservation Warden. Lousy pay, but the best working conditions I've ever had. I worked mainly duck hunters on Partridge Lake near Fremont. My partner , Bob Popple, and I worked deer shiners at night. One night we were called to a scene where 2 does were hit by a car. No one seemed to want any part of them, so I took them home. It was April, so I couldn't hang the meat, but it was as good as any I've ever eaten. I lost a bit off the top of the hams on the one that got hit in the back end, but really very little meat was unusable. Years later, after I'd left the warden's job, Bob still called me occasionally if he had a good road kill that needed a home. One year I got a deer from Bob and we used it as the main course at our King Archers awards banquet.
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RE: Ever ate roadkill? - 10/13/2009 9:10:28 AM
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smitty
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I have. while I was at fishing camp some guy hit a deer in front of my house, so my wife went out and got a tag, then cut out the back straps, inner tender loins and one hind quarter. She thought that was all that was good. Good enough for me!
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RE: Ever ate roadkill? - 10/13/2009 9:52:27 AM
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Patriot
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Here's a pic of the only one I've ever eaten. I do my own butchering and my neighbor is a State Patrol officer, so between the two of us we take care of it.
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RE: Ever ate roadkill? - 10/13/2009 10:39:58 AM
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ranwin33
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I suppose if I was the one who hit the deer I'd eat it. But if I found the deer dead on the road, don't think so.
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RE: Ever ate roadkill? - 10/13/2009 11:04:27 AM
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Sailfish
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Yes.
It hit our Pinto.
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RE: Ever ate roadkill? - 10/13/2009 11:01:29 PM
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epapineau
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Definately. My family processes deer for friends and family every winter. Every year we get at least 10 come through our shop that have been hit on the road. We are friends with much of the local law enforcement, so if they get a call and the person that hit it doesn't want it, they call us up to get it off the road and so the meat doesn't go to waste. Sometimes its too badly mangled to eat, but we take care of it anyways. When your family lives off of venison, good private land in IL is getting scarce, and weekend hunters in public land are getting abundant, you don't have much of a choice. Forget about the Beverly Hillbillies Cliche. We aren't picking up raccoons an squirrels with shovels! There is nothing wrong with it. It was just killed with a really big, really expensive bullet!
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RE: Ever ate roadkill? - 10/14/2009 2:39:12 PM
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buckhunter21
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I have not. I've hit 6 deer myself, and everyone was in really, really bad shape where the meat wouldn't have been salvageable, or the deer disappeared. Would I eat a deer that was just laying on the side of the road, not knowing when it was hit and how long ago? No.
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RE: Ever ate roadkill? - 10/14/2009 5:51:36 PM
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Patriot
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It would have to be the perfect situation. Say I drive the same route everyday. One morning there's a roadkill that wasn't there the night before. Overnight temps were low. Minimal damage. I'm good to go if I have the time to process it (I do my own).
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RE: Ever ate roadkill? - 10/14/2009 8:37:08 PM
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shadow
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We are only talking about deer right? Racoons, squirels, porcupines the list goes on... I believe should never be resurrected from their flattened state in order to be served as dinner. Even if you liked to eat a squirel now and then.
Now with a deer it all depends on the situation. If it was a deer just hit by someone I know and they call me, if I saw someone hit it or if I was the one who hit and killed it and the deer was not in to bad of shape then yes.
And... if it wasn't hit in the spring or summer. I'm sure it would be o.k. to eat one during these times but i'm not in the whole pick up, process, and fill the freezer state of mind during the warmer months.
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RE: Ever ate roadkill? - 10/15/2009 8:12:39 PM
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1Morgan
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I have...and it was good. My buddy was a cop, he worked a minor wreck involving the deer. When everyone left he cut out the back straps...and they were good.
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