Found on road Dead

Bruce from Can. · May 13, 2015

Hit this darn deer half hour ago, truck will live.

old · May 13, 2015

But did you do the right thing and take the deer home and then into the freezer???? If it was me it would have been skinned out and quartered out and on the way to the freezer. But I also believe in waste not want not

Bryce Frazier · May 13, 2015

Same thing here in North ID! People hit stuff, and it magically disappears... FAST!

Would MUCH rather it go to feeding kids and family, than rotting in a ditch....

How bad did it hurt the truck??

Bruce from Can. · May 13, 2015

This deer would be over trenderized, as it's intestines were knocked out on impact. Front bumper took most of the hit ,smashed out turn signal and grill. Worst part is both the stinky air bags went off. Air bags will probably cost more than grill.

old · May 13, 2015

Still I would have picked it up and if not good for human it would make good dog or cat food. Again waste not want not

ShadetreeRet · May 14, 2015

I sure do hope you have insurance, unless they have dropped prices in the last ten years, you gonna scream when you see the figures on the air bags!

Traditional Farmer · May 14, 2015

The meat in that deer would be a bloodshot nasty mess,and the bones would be shattered.
Anyway as Josey Wales said buzzards got to eat same as worms.

Ken Macfarlane · May 14, 2015

That's annoying. There are something like 200 a year killed on our little sleepy 10 km stretch of 2 lane road.

ohiojim · May 14, 2015

ya always get a lot of comments about "take it home and eat it" mostly from people that have never taken one home to eat, they are nasty after taking a hit from a 1/2 ton

Lazy WP · May 14, 2015

Within the last week someone has hit a Whitetail buck at our mailbox, and a good sized bull Elk a half mile north. The Elk got quartered to use as bait for trapping a Mountain lion, so says the Game Warden. The deer all just get left in the ditch. Had to deal with my dogs stinking, and coyotes in the yard.
I have never picked up a deer off of the road, nor do I ever plan to, unless its in the bucket of the loader.

Texasmark1 · May 14, 2015

In Texas you need to leave it be. Reason is poachers and excuses to ply their trade, PWD just has a blanket ruling. Funny on deer, been here for 35+ years and nar a dear until the last couple of years. This year alone I have seen 2 doe on the roadside from auto strikes......not all bad, keeps the buzzards busy and away from your newly born calves. Down in SW TX. where a lot of the smaller white tail roam, residents hate them for the reason you indicated.

Charlie M · May 14, 2015

My Dad used to work for the NYS Thruway. They were always going out to pick up deer that was hit by a truck. If they got to it in time and there were any good parts left they would salvage the good part and a near by guy would freeze it. In the winter when they worked some long days and nights plowing snow they eat a lot of venison stew. I don't know if it was legal but there were a lot of nights when the state troopers had supper with them. There would be days when they would pick up 8-10 per day. Many of them just splattered when they found them.

Part Time Pete · May 14, 2015

Thought you meant your Ford broke down...

hd6gtom · May 14, 2015

usually 60 of 70 hit between my place and work each year. 14 mile stretch of road. doesn't thin out the herd any. Thousands of the darn things in Madison county. Our dnr cut the deer lisc by the hundreds last year. I guess trying to raise crops here is something we are not supposed to do.

Dave Sherburne, NY · May 14, 2015

I read an article just a few days ago that because of the severe winter we just had that the powers that be are planning. shorten the hunting season. I can assure you that in this area, there are more than enough left to repopulate New York. But I suppose Encon has to do something to justify their existence.

krm · May 14, 2015

That was my first thought also.

Donald Lehman · May 14, 2015

In our particular area we could stand to have a few more. The DMP's (and not allowing us to feed them during the winter) have really knocked the population down. We needed to lower the population from what it was in the late 90"s, but the DEC always gets carried away with their stinkin' doe permits. Kinda like a politician handing out candy in the local parade. They don't know enough to quit. I do think deer get a lot of crop damage blamed on them that is caused by other wildlife. Once turkeys start to flock up in the fall, a flock of twenty can devastate a field of corn within a week or two. I was in a tree stand last year and watched a woodpecker, of all things, clean off a whole ear of corn and there were several woodpeckers working that field. He'd fly out of his den tree straight to that ear, grab a kernel, fly back to the den. Had to smile at that bird. He kind of reminded me of digging potatoes. You just keep sloggin' away at it until they are all stored away. It does make you wonder just how much of your crops really go to the wildlife.

Don't ever recall the greenie-weenies thanking us for our contributions to the welfare of wildlife though, do you?

Donald Lehman · May 14, 2015

I've butchered quite a few road kills over the years. About half the time they were beat up so bad there wasn't much to save. Other times they are almost completely usable. This one looks pretty beat up. If you are desperate enough for the meat, you'd be surprised at how much bloodshot meat can be saved by soaking it in salt water for couple of days. There was a time in my life when five pounds of salvaged meat was something to be grateful for. Fortunately, those days are past.

RN · May 14, 2015

The start of a meal of 'redneck grilled venison'. Difference from plain 'grilled venison' is the grill marks. 'Plain grilled' has sort of 'ladder' marks from the wires with a couple cross wires of the grill. 'Redneck grilled' marks are 'GMC' "FORD" , sometimes 'TOY' or a 'Rams head' seen in the markings. Old Classic punch line for the straight line subject, couldn't resist. RN

old · May 14, 2015

That is not always true. I have picked up more then one deer hit by a car or truck and 99% if it was still good. A deer can take one heck of a hit and die but still have lots of good meat on them

jeffcat · May 14, 2015

Hit a deer on the PA turnpike a couple years ago. Doing 65mph and this little buck.....POW! Call the cops and they switch me to the PA State police. The whole gist of the phone call. "Anyone hurt, no, can you drive it home, yea, do you need an insurance report, no, DO YOU WANT THE DEER, no, OK go home." In PA they don't even bother to report deer hits. Also you can take it home with you. Took about $200.oo of junkyard parts and two days worth of wrenchin. You can bearly tell I hit something.

GeneMO · May 14, 2015

Someone hit a mountain lion about 50 miles south of me earlier this week. It was still alive. I saw pics of it setting up looking at the cops before they put it out of it's misery.

Gene

keh · May 14, 2015

If someone would hit a lion here in SC, maybe the state game people would admit that they are here. Latest(I guess) issue of National Geographic has a nice
article about a wild life preserve along the coast and the game warden says not to say anything about lions being there, because they're not. Yes, locals have
seen them.

KEH

sotxbill · May 14, 2015

You would think the state would move the deer crossing sign somewhere else,, where its safer for the deer.

flying H · May 14, 2015

know a guy takes em and hoist em up in a tree overhanging the catfish pond. Says maggots feed the fish. WNWN!

Letsseewhatthisdoes · May 15, 2015

And in Cherokee County SC as well. But I bet they believe in Bigfoot.

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