The doe was a work in progress.
She started out with a wreath, then more decorations were added and finally, came the balloon, which must have "worked" because she was gone the next day.
Posted on 02/22/2019 7:36:46 AM PST by sevinufnine
Get ready to break out your recipes for roadkill. Eating wild animals killed by a car could soon become legal in California. Senator Bob Archuleta introduced a so-called “you kill it, you grill it” bill at the Capitol this week. The bill reads, “each year it is estimated that over 20,000 deer alone are hit by vehicles on California roadways. This translates into hundreds of thousands of pounds of healthy meat that could be utilized to feed those in need.” It’s a recipe for unusual dinnertime conversation.
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Where I live, unless it’s a really hot day, a hit deer doesn’t last 15 minutes on the road.
Much less, if it’s hit on a back road or at late at night, when there’s less chance of witnesses.
They used to take fresh road kill to the orphanage.
Just cut off the hind quarter and leave the rest. Buzzards got to eat, same as worms.
Drag it all home.
Dogs got to eat, same as buzzards and worms.
:)
It makes a big difference on picking up road killed deer if it is cold weather when hit.
A deer killed by a sports car that slowed to 25-35 mph before the impact will likely just have a couple broken legs and have to be dispatched with a tire-iron.
In that case the deer goes right over the car without much damage. Those are perfect to collect in cold weather.
The worst are deer hit by a P/U at anything over 35 mph. Those are scrambled like eggs and just a bag of broken guts.
During hunting season my dogs will drag deer carcasses home. It isn’t unusual for the front yard to look like a crime scene. Rib cages and spine laying on the sidewalk.
In a lot states like Wis. it is perfectly legal to salvage most any animal hit by a vehicle.
Most of the time all it takes is a simple phone call to get an authorization number.
Now, there are so many deer/auto accidents and so few wardens that if you hit a deer, it is your responsibility to just get it off the road.
I guess that you can keep it if you want, but you don't have to notify anyone-but your insurance agent.
I hit a pheasant with my 55 T-bird back in the day backed up picked it up took It home and Mom fixed it for us.
App writers have an opportunity to map areas of road kill.
Grandpa can take his young ones on a gps food trip.
Seems like a high number, but when compared to the estimated deer population in CA, makes sense.
There is even a CA roadkill tracking website run by UC Davis, complete with photo gallery.
SB 395 - An act to amend Section 2000.5 of, and to add Sections 2000.3 and 2000.6 to, the Fish and Game Code, relating to wild game mammals.
"(1) Existing law provides that the accidental taking of a bird, mammal, reptile, or amphibian by collision with a motor vehicle while the vehicle is being operated on a road or highway is not a violation of law. A violation of the Fish and Game Code is a crime.
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So it's currently only a crime in CA because it violates Fish and Game Code.
“Kill It & Grill It? Roadkill Could Become Legal To Eat in California”
Or...
“Why I don’t eat Chili con Carne”
I have a friend down in Bent Creek who often has the same yard tableau of terror going on.
Hunters also bring her deer in season and the dogs share that bounty and then go off on their own, in search of “abandoned” parts.
:)
Have you ever read this?
https://www.jerrypournelle.com/reports/jerryp/dogsinelk.html
Technically, here, you’re *supposed* to call in for a tag and they’ll let you take it.
I am not kidding when I say it’s nearly impossible to beat the hillbilly scavengers to a decent roadkill.
Couple years back, it was wicked cold and I passed a just-hit giant buck coming up the mountain.
By the time I found a place to turn around and go back for it, it was *gone*.
I didn’t see a car pass me going either way, so in that 5 minute missed window of opportunity, someone younger/faster/stronger saw that buck, too, and threw it in the back and took off.
Would’ve been months of fresh meat and antler chews for the dogs.
I drive paranoid in the Magnum because I do NOT want to hurt my car with a deer...or bear.
Driving the Suburban, it’s kinda left up to fate.
:D
thats prime ribs, no maggots yet
The doe was a work in progress.
She started out with a wreath, then more decorations were added and finally, came the balloon, which must have "worked" because she was gone the next day.
Driving home from the feed store one day, there was a dead pheasant on the centerline. I’d just passed that point going the other way ten minutes before.
Made a good meal.
We always try to educate new comers to Alabama about proper road kill etiquette. If you come up on an accident, you first help the people, call anyone they need called. Then and only then you can ask them “you gonna want that deer?”.
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