How I spent my morning after Thanksgiving

JF in MI

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Most blunt trauma vehicle deaths would have knocked the deer out of the roadway? Obviously, the gravel shows signs of the feet and legs paddling.
Many animals exhibit the paddling when in their last moments. Looks like it was disposed very well.
 
Nice job but no fun. Every road deer I hit they all managed to run away. Cops come and all they care about was searching my car for deer hair. Guess I need to keep a bag full of hair to scatter around next time.
 
(quoted from post at 14:17:17 11/25/22) Most blunt trauma vehicle deaths would have knocked the deer out of the roadway? Obviously, the gravel shows signs of the feet and legs paddling.
Many animals exhibit the paddling when in their last moments. Looks like it was disposed very well.
WD?
 
i buried one like that about 10 years ago. found it along the edge of my woods, gut shot 3 weeks before the season opened. dang poachers.
 
Recently took a drive out north of town, a 4 lane divided state highway with access roads.

Probably within a 5 mile stretch, there must have been 10 dead deer, various states of decay and destruction.

This was a fairly urban area, never would have thought there would be deer there. Part of the problem is the 60 MPH speed limit is overwhelmingly ignored!
 
I used to just drag them into the woods a ways. Coyotes would clean them up. We had one in our field one year a couple days before the season. Within 48 hours I had to really look to find the spine in the woods. During the day it was Bald Eagles, Ravens and Crows. At night the coyotes.
 
The problem here is the coyotes leave the parts scattered all over the yard. Last summer, each time I mowed I found one leg at a time until I accounted for all four. Better to clean it up in one shot.
 
I wounded and tracked a doe to the edge of a swamp. I came back the next morning to find her 20 yards from where I had stopped the night before. The coyotes had found her during the night. One front shoulder was completely removed and they must have taken it home for a mid morning snack. They had eaten the top and back of the hindquarters also. I was so disappointed that I went home. Later I realized that I should have pulled the backstraps out. A couple days later the crows, ravens and eagles were picking her clean.
 
You did better than me with the one that got hit last week in front of my house. I scooped him up with the grapple bucket and dumped him off for the taking in a swamp out back. Along by a skeleton of one I probably dumped there a while back. Not going to waste my time burying one.
 
If in the driveway I would have just dragged it down the road a bit and left it. Not going to spend good fuel to bury rats. I keep telling the guys hunting just leave them and shoot another if it's not big enough. With sightings of 50 to the field in less than 30 acres each night not much left foe me in the crop. I tel them to just shoot as let them stack up like cord wood.
 
Not to far from me is a big cat sanctuary that I have taken a deer to. They appreciate getting them as it takes a lot of meat to feed those big cats.
 
(quoted from post at 09:44:39 11/26/22) And the older you get the more you need a backhoe.

Yes, and while they can fairly well repair or replace hips, knees, shoulders and the like, they can't fix a back. Let the machines do the heavy lifting and protect your back if you want a good future even if you are young and strong now.
 
A lot of road kill deer here this year. The things are everywhere. I was driving down Square Lake Rd in Bloomfield Hills two weeks ago and an eight point was standing on the side of the road watching four lanes of busy traffic. Lot of wealthy people on big estates there so not sure why I am surprised. I have had two in front of the farm house this year. I don't bury them. A piece of twine from a used bale slipped around the hind legs and hooked on to the hitch ball of the 4 wheeler gets the critter out onto one of the fields. Sometimes I set a trail cam on it. Vultures, hawks, coyotes, crows, the usual small predators...even woodpeckers...all come to feast. In fine weather the carcass is eaten out in less than two days. Then the remaining bones and the head start getting dragged around and eventually vanish. Takes a week or so in cold weather. With all the dead deer I see in ditches this year I think come Spring I will keep the windows rolled up and the AC on for the first month of warm weather.
 

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