? about deer
 

I'm not trying be funny, but in your state what happens to road killed deer.Does the person that hits it, get to keep it? Or is it given to the environmental police.

All of the road kill deer I have seen stayed in the road until run flat or rotted / eaten by crows, etc. As I understand it if a person takes the deer, it is considered poaching.

LOL poaching! :haha: What a unprofitable way to poach: Well, only caused 2,000 dollars worth of damage to the vehicle for this vinison.

We hit a deer a couple - 3 weeks ago, and everyone we tells says " yea, soandso hit one a week ago", or "we hit one a month ago too". Seems like everyone is hitting them these days.

Around here if you hit it, it's yours, at least that is what everyone does. Perhaps technically it isn't legal. That is just dumb if it is. I know the farmers are allowed to kill deer during spring/summer to protect crops, but they have to leave it to rot. So stupid.

Double posted, even though first posting attemp ended in error page :confused:

Here in Wisconsin, you can keep the deer, but, only after you contact the police and they come out to tag it for you.

Indiana requires the polcie tag them before you take them. Since you're probably filing a police report anyway for insurance no biggie. A lot of people in clunks with liability just load them up though and nobody cares.

Harvesting said roadkill deer is perfectly legal and encouraged here. A guy at my church hit one last week, puled over to assess the damage and had a fella stop and ask him if he wanted the deer, he didn't so fella louded it up and took it.

ive harvested a few...

the rule of the land here is (so I am told by the old ones) if its dead, take it but call the game warden (they are as thick as flies here) within 10 days so they can record it.
why, I dont have a clue... do they really count all those rotten piles on the road?

we do have a roadkill truck that scrapes em up... man DONT get cought behind this truck...
I dunno how those guys work with the SMELL.

Here in Maine.. If you hit it YOU have the option to take it for use in your family- you cant give it to Billy Bob down the raod.. If you refuse it, it is taken to food shelters for the homeless..

Always have to report it to the game warden...

Around here, the police get to decide who gets the deer---usually one of their buddies. You can plead your case to keep it, some will give in, some won't.

Thats what Brush Guards are made for.My Step Mom killed more Groundhogs with a '50 Chevy Pickup than with a Gun,no she didn't let then go to waste.

big rockpile

This is a bit off track, but, if the states can tell us when we can hunt and when we hit one of their governed deer, should it not be the responsibility of the states to fix our cars? I realize this is probably a stupid question, but makes sense to me!

Government does not claim ownership of the deer, whether roadkilled or hunted. They claim ownership and dominion over the man that takes it.
There are court cases to that effect. Also, government does not have a perfect claim on your new auto until you surrender the Manufacturer's Certificate of Origin to them in exchange for "certificate" of title. It is not "title". It is certification that such exists. It is theirs upon your surrender, and they will control the auto and it's "drivers" so long as that auto is on the road.

Swampdweller

In WV any animal you kill with a car is yours.

Ana, where are you?

I believe PA just passed a law within the last year or so, making it legal to keep road-killed deer. They were a big problem when I lived in NE PA. My favorite was seeing deer carcasses by the side of the road, with just the head removed... guess somebody wanted a trophy!

In Kansas you can't touch it unless you have paid $10 for a "salvage" tag.
Otherwise, it is coyote feast.
Tana Mc

To All,

I knew the government would not take responsibility but did not know anybody had ever tried to actually get them to pay.

A few years ago a simpleminded resident took pity on the deer and decided to feed them hay. Problem was, they live 1 mile south of the Canadian port here...heavy truck traffic. The carnage continued to pile up in the snowberms along side the road, until some of us under the influence of winter blues and too much beer went out and raised the dead.

Deer, contorted in every possible pose, standing and greeting all passing north. Was pretty gruesome but no one bothered to take them down until spring.

They do count the "rotten piles" to help track animal population. The greater the number of roadkill deer, the better chance of the hunters having their bag limits raised.

In Ohio you may also take the deer, provided that a deer kill slip (provided by law enforcement) has been signed. I used to work for a small city and we had a "deer kill list" of county residents who were willing to come out and take freshly killed deer that the drivers didn't want.

Ones that had been left to languish on the roadside were picked up by the "roadkill truck," along with the unwanted opossums, etc. They were shoveled and eventually taken to the rendering plant to be processed into lipstick.

I knew there was a good reason I didn't like lipstick or makeup.

Here in Iowa we can keep it. My dh hit a buck about a month ago and we called the DNR and they came out looked at it and said they would send us a tag. (Why would we need a tag AFTER it's been butchered and put in the freezer?)All
"official" pencil pushing I guess. :haha: We processed it all,and had some good eating for nothing.
Carol :o

Check with your state game commission. In Nebraska, the one that hit the deer gets first chance to claim the deer. A tag must be filled out.If the driver does not claim the deer, another person can claim it. Sheriff Dept. has people that are on a call list for roadkill deer.

the biggest issue other than the legalities, is the quality of the meat.Any animal destined for the table needs to be bled and gutted as soon as possible.Road killed animals tend to be bruised and broken up , making immediate bleeding even more important.
I unfortionately hit a yearling near my home- the fender hit it's head,and I cut it's throat and bled it immediately.That was a perfectly good carcass and as good as any deer I;ve taken.
But to come across an animal hours after being hit, and attempt to convert it into meat fit for the table is going to be largely dependent on where the animal was hit, how long ago, and what the temperature is.

U guys know why the chickin crossed the road? To show the deer it COULD be done!!