Thought I was gonna have a freezer full of deer meat...........

[Mac in Wisco]

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Wow....I kinda thought hitting a deer was like a lightning strike, probably not going to happen to the same person twice.

Don't move to Wisconsin. With a Whitetail deer herd that fluctuates between 1.5 and 2 million deer, there are few that live in rural areas that haven't had run ins with deer multiple times. They will run out in front of you, they will run out and run into the side of your vehicle, if it's foggy out in the late evening, there will undoubtedly be deer just standing around in that fog bank you are trying to drive through.

I don't think the numbers have anything to do with us clearing the woods and building homes, it has to do with the loss of natural predators, the lessening numbers of hunters, and the biggest culprit, the never ending food supply they have in millions of acres of corn and other cereal crops.

 

[Chicky Joy]

I have been in multiple deer/car accidents. I was only in one where I was actually driving. We gave the deer that I hit to a friend. Where we live there aren't usually any deer that get left on the side of the road. If someone doesn't immediately want them the sheriff's deputy will call around and find someone who does. We live on an island with a high deer population. While it appears to be down this year, we still see deer all the time, but not as often when you are out hunting.

 

[luvmychicknkids]

It is really depressing how many you see rotting by the roads here. I have no clue why. Seems like not many get picked up. I know we have a rather large deer population but I seldom see them close to my house. I do hear two distinct pack of coyotes VERY close which is probably why.

 

[NC chicken man]

my neighbers wife hit one the other night did not kill it my son went down there finish it off and dressed it ,what makes me mad is when people who don't live out here kill a deer where ever take what they want and then dump the rest of the deer on the side of the road .

 

[Fudgie]

Yes people around here do that a lot. You are right it is wasteful to just let it rot in the ditch. In my experience, if you don't bleed it out right away, it can be really tough. My dad picked one up that he saw a guy hit,. called the game warden and all. by the time the warden got there the adrenelin had already pulsed through the body and the meat was so danged tough.

I wish you lived closer to me. My hubby loves to hunt and just watches because we would have to have like 4 freezers to hold all the meat that him and the girls have an opportunity to shoot. There is no way to use it all up before the next season so he just shoots the best one he sees over the course of the season. He kind of likes just sitting there watching them and being able to pick and choose.

We usually keep the loins and then burger-ize the rest.

 

[PurpleChicken]

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It seems like I see 2 or 3 a day here in CT dead on the roads. It bugs
me since it's a waste of life, a waste of meat, or even a waste of a good
kill for a hunter.

If I hit one or saw it hit I would take it home in a heartbeat. Then you
would all see a post saying "How the heck do I process a deer?".

Luv, I hit a squirrel a few weeks ago, first squirrel I ever hit. I pulled
over and it was spotless. I was tempted to take it home and cook it
but "chickened" out.

 

[Fudgie]

LOL Purple Chicken.....I hear they taste like Chicken!!!!

 

[Buster]

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It seems like I see 2 or 3 a day here in CT dead on the roads. It bugs
me since it's a waste of life, a waste of meat, or even a waste of a good
kill for a hunter.

If I hit one or saw it hit I would take it home in a heartbeat. Then you
would all see a post saying "How the heck do I process a deer?".

Luv, I hit a squirrel a few weeks ago, first squirrel I ever hit. I pulled
over and it was spotless. I was tempted to take it home and cook it
but "chickened" out.

I could talk you through processing it, a lot of people here could. The first time my buddies and I went hunting without dads, uncles, or grandpas around to tell us how to do it, my cousin printed off instructions from the internet to take with us. So when he bagged his deer, there we were standing around it with paper instructions and following the directions.

Best trip ever.

I would probably process a deer if I hit it and it was legal here but it's not. Fish and Game says anything like that is theirs in Idaho.

 

[PurpleChicken]

Here in CT if you hit it it's yours. You are supposed to report it.
If the person who hits it doesn't want it than anyone can take it.

No one ever picks them up, even the state. I've seen the same
dead deer for five days straight before. The local scavengers are
happy.

 

[Roosterboy]

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Same thing for me. No one reports it and no one collects it. Those people go so fast that you can't even recognize it around hear