Deer head and other various parts

sancraft · #1 12/02/05, 07:57 AM

We went up to our property on Wed. When we got there, there were big tire tracks, dog tracks and a deer head right at the front on the property, in the cleared area at the road. The next morning, the head was gone and a leg and some other part had replaced it. What do you make of this?

seedspreader · #2 12/02/05, 08:29 AM

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Originally Posted by sancraft

We went up to our property on Wed. When we got there, there were big tire tracks, dog tracks and a deer head right at the front on the property, in the cleared area at the road. The next morning, the head was gone and a leg and some other part had replaced it. What do you make of this?

Satanic Ritual...

or

Bigfoot ritual offering

or

Deer poachers who processed the meat and came back to take their rack and leave the organs.

Meg Z · #3 12/02/05, 08:33 AM

Sounds like hunting season to me. I hate all the body parts laying all over during the season. Some of it is from field dressing, but so much is from wounded deer that run off and die elsewhere. Then the dogs start dragging parts around. If you're seeing much 'rearrangement', you may have a pack of feral dogs around, or neighbors who are letting theirs run. Watch your livestock!

And you're in Georgia, right? The deer population is so high that the limit on deer is 12 this year (encompassing all forms of hunt). You're lible to have this through January.

On the way home last night, I had the dubious pleasure of running over an entire deer spine and ribcage in the middle of the road. Yeah, I love deer season.

At least my husband got his three with good clean shots.

Enjoy the season, watch where you step, and keep your livestock up close and tight.

Meg

RedneckWoman · #4 12/02/05, 08:44 AM

Sounds like someone needed a place to toss their scraps out and dogs got in them. I dunno about GA but up here some people are really bad about dumping their scraps on other people's property, along the road, or wherever they can get rid of them and of course the dogs get in them and drag them everywhere.

MELOC · #5 12/02/05, 08:52 AM

my sister has a vacant wooded lot next to a guy who processes deer. one year i found a huge pile of "waste", hides and heads etc. i was so close to turning the guy in. there is no way it was a healthy situation.

in your case it was probably someone looking for a quick and easy place to dump the hide. i always hunt here in pa and i have never run across a recommended means of disposing of the hide. most folk around here take another ride in the woods and the roads are littered with animal remains. no wonder some folk hate hunting. my personal hide or two per year tossed on 30 acres of private land is a whole lot different than the hundreds of hunters who toss out deer remains on about 3 or 4 select roads in my area.

Cyngbaeld · #6 12/02/05, 09:03 AM

In colorado there are barrels all over the place where you could dispose of a deer hide. They are collected regularly and put to good use. Usually have a sign on them saying something like 'donate deer hides for such and such youth group."

mom2girls · #7 12/02/05, 09:15 AM

chupacabra???

edcopp · #8 12/02/05, 09:23 AM

Well most deer hunters are too sorry to dispose of the deer remains properly. I mean dig a hole, maybe 5 minutes and cover the stuff up. That is just too much trouble. Might miss some important beer drinking time.

Now combine that with the nations obsession with free ranging dogs, the bigger the better, and wa lah there you have it. Deer heads, hides. leg joints, and various kinds of guts. Brought to you by a deer hunter near you. The beer bottles anr dumped down the road most likely on your property too.

tinknal · #9 12/02/05, 09:35 AM

I see no problem with dumping remains where other natural preditors or scavangers can utilize them, this is just returning what you can't use. The problem lies in peoples sensitivities.

Sterotyping hunters as drunken louts is like any other stereotype, and you shouldnt lower your self to that level . (btw, I dispose of my remains on my own property)

sancraft · #10 12/02/05, 10:49 AM

Dumping where natural predators can get them in one thing, but in my driveway is a whole other thing all together. And I don't want to draw those "natural predators" to where I will have chickens, guineas and goats in the next few weeks. I'll post the property with more no trespassing, no hunting and no poaching signs. I think it will get better when we're up there full time too.

Matt Black · #11 12/02/05, 11:03 AM

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Originally Posted by edcopp

Well most deer hunters are too sorry to dispose of the deer remains properly. I mean dig a hole, maybe 5 minutes and cover the stuff up. That is just too much trouble. Might miss some important beer drinking time.

Now combine that with the nations obsession with free ranging dogs, the bigger the better, and wa lah there you have it. Deer heads, hides. leg joints, and various kinds of guts. Brought to you by a deer hunter near you. The beer bottles anr dumped down the road most likely on your property too.

Most? Really?

I guess I've been going about hunting all wrong. I'll have to start drinking beer and throwing deer parts everywhere.

Country Lady · #12 12/02/05, 11:14 AM

We live about 1300' off the main road. Last week someone dropped off a deer close to our entrance with the hind quarters cut out. Even worse, they did this in the daylight hours! We dropped by the county barn and told them. They sent someone to pick it up. I was furious. These kind of folks should be jailed!