Where have all the hunters and trappers gone?

[Boyd]

I wish I was as lucky

I usually have to trick my foster kiddo's into eating it. It's only later when they are praising how good the food was do I tell them I mixed in a little venison. Thinking pretty soon I am going to go 100% with it..........

 

[Scoop]

Boyd, do you ever take road killed deer? That's saves us a ton of money every year especially when no one gets a deer hunting.

 

[Boyd]

I tell the police to call me night or day

It keeps the freezer stocked when I can't get out!

 

[Scoop]

Ha! Ha! Ha! I like that idea! I know a couple of cops that I could ask to call me. I wonder if they would. Guess it don't hurt to ask and then they'll know I'm a real loon!

 

[Boyd]

oh they all know I am a loon to the hilt!!!!!! I only take freshly hit deer, and sometimes dispatch if needed! They have gotten calls because I was trying out a new gun at the range out back... .. . Needless to say, they all have a standing invitation to use ordinance that wouldn't be allowed at any ranges out here

 

[saddina]

Hmmm dear would go well with a white wine sauce....

Mr Saddi and his bud hit a boar one year, and brought it home, I believe at the time I told him flowers was more my idea of "honey look what i got you"!

 

[shawnkfl]

just look up the local deer processors in your area. most of them also buy furs. i used to trap muskrat, beaver, racoon, fox and mink. i had a trap line that would take me a few hours to check. the price of fur dropped to the point that it was costing me money to trap. i used to get $18.00 for a medium muskrat fur. after a few years, i was lucky to get $4.00 for a jumbo. there are still trappers around, but they're not in it for the money anymore. most furs now are raised on farms.

 

[Scoop]

I know what you mean Boyd, about freshly hit deer. We always feel under the armpits... if it's warm it get thrown in the trunk! If it's real cold and stiff and we have no idea when it was hit we don't take it. We laugh, tho. People over in Africa would kill for something like that and we get weird looks while loading them in a car!

 

[miss_thenorth]

My hubby brought a roadkill home one day. The truck in front of him on a freeway hit it. When we went to butcher her, we discovered that she had a little fawn in her--it looked like she could have delivered any minute. Hubby beat himself up thinking if we had known, he might have been able to save the fawn. So sad.

 

[Chicks_N_Horses]

We have had deer with fawns still in them. Once one was alive when we gutted the doe and we tried to save it but it died...so don't let your DH beat himself up too bad, it most likely wouldn't have made it.

I always grab up fox that are road killed. We do alot of native american, rustic type crafts and decor so I love critter hides and if one is dead on the road, I stop and grab it!