What happens to the road kill?

[rock]

Well I dont know about where you live at but if it is close to being warm as in fresh or almost it usually goes home with somebody around here. I have seen last yr a woman with a big smile on her face using a shovel to scrap a goose off the road and just this morning 2 boys in a truck checking a deer that had just been hit. Im guessing they will be having deer tonight for dinner.
Now be truthful how many of you have done it before?

 

[jeff of pa]

When I get the Chance I do.

 

[pa plateau hiker]

I've done it. You can pick up any road kill deer here in Pa, only you have to report it to the game commission. There is no charge. Any other animal you have to pay for. $10 per point for antlers and a fee if you want the hide from an animal.

 

[cactusrat]

Not allowed in Texas, but it still happens.

 

[releventchair]

Since losing a leg i have slacked off but once upon a time...
A fun example of competition was an around minus 30 degree windchill wintry night spotting a form with snow on it along the highway, stopping and walking up to it to check salvagability to find its hind quarters salvaged already.
Have taken a couple out of city i worked in and one time brought a road hit deer home on the back of my motorcycle seat. It took all the bungie cords i had and holding its tail on the tighter turns.

 

[pippinwhitepaws]

in Arizona, if one hits a game animal...one can call the LEO's in the area and receive a salvage permit for hitting the animal...elk, deer, antelope..ect.

 

[rock]

Ive never done it but have seen allot of deer hit in the mornings and then they are gone in the afternoon. I figure they have been taken home. Wouldnt the meat be bruised if hit by a car?

 

[Cherokee Dan]

In Texas we believe buzzards have to eat too.

 

[smokeythecat]

Never have retrieved anything. I like my meat wrapped in plastic.

 

[surf]

[video]http://www.rightthisminute.com/video/deer-chinese-restaurant[/video]

 

[BosnMate]

Depends on how badly the animal was hit, the meat can be horribly blood shot, and guts busted apart and really nasty to clean, and to me it's not worth the effort. Besides, it's illegal in Oregon to do anything with the dead animal, but I've removed them from in front of my house, and I've also salvaged the hide on a couple. Truthfully the meat wouldn't be worth the fine, but the state lets the thing lay beside the road and rot, just not in front of my house. Oregon has lots and lots of uninhabited woods that's a good spot for dead deer.

 

[Bum Luck]

Not allowed in Texas, but it still happens.

How IS cooked armadillo?

 

[surf]

 

[cactusrat]

How IS cooked armadillo?

I have had some mighty fine tamales made with armadillo. Only way I have eaten it. Never cooked it.

 

[Silver Searcher]

Why waste meat, if it's fresh then pass the sauce

SS

 

[Msbeepbeep]

Don't have to, "dinner" wanders into my yard from time to time, and the winner is...who ever runs faster. Usually not me.

 

[MUD(S.W.A.T)]

Most states clean up road kill and collect the animals to grind up and put in bark mulch and a few other things... No joke !!

Keep @ it and HH !!

 

[rock]

Most states clean up road kill and collect the animals to grind up and put in bark mulch and a few other things... No joke !!

Keep @ it and HH !!

Thats interesting and I guess somebody gets paid to pick them up.

 

[releventchair]

Ive never done it but have seen allot of deer hit in the mornings and then they are gone in the afternoon. I figure they have been taken home. Wouldnt the meat be bruised if hit by a car?

Amount of salvageable meat varies.
I have dealt with a head hit minimal damage to an entire half was one bruise on deer.
The old 80%water and hydraulics at work.A near safe bet of an average 1/4 minimal save. Or 10 lbs on a yearling,(born around last June) deer on the hardest hit once by auto.
Smaller, normally legally harvested in state fur bearers subject to season quality of hide and damage but usually if fresh worth saving.
A permit available to those who wait for police to arrive, and is proper legal method, few wait.
Have seen rendering service dragging up plywood ramp to truck too.

 

[TNGUNS]

I have gotten myself into a position of providing deer to several that can no longer hunt. So I get a few every year that have been hit. If it is a hard hit, I usually just take the backstrip and a ham(s) if not too bad. Hate dressing them if busted up inside. Only a couple have I ever fooled with in the hot weather. I saw them hit, or care up right after and pulled the back strip and whatever I could to get it in the cooler ASAP. We took some back strip to a bonfire a year or two ago and cooked it as kabobs after a douse in a marinade. About as good as I have ever had. From roadkill to bonfire in about an hour.