Posted on 09/13/2002 6:01:11 AM PDT by SJackson
It was a Friday evening, and Cynthia Fain was off to do an errand. As she came out of her apartment complex in Gaithersburg, "I saw a deer lying on the side of the road," Cynthia says. "I realized he had just been hit by a motorist."
Cynthia approached the obviously dying animal "to see what help I could offer." Meanwhile, a security guard called Montgomery County police, and a crowd (including several children) began to gather.
"I sat on the curb and stroked the deer's head," Cynthia writes. "He responded by opening his eyes and putting his head in my hands. . . . I wished that everyone could feel what I felt at that moment."
One man very clearly did not.
Even though the deer was not yet dead, the man told the crowd that he would "take care of it." Cynthia and the security guard asked him what he meant. He said he would drag the deer off to a grassy patch nearby and butcher it.
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The only way to handle a Fresh kill.
Yeah, people as stupid as you usually end up in the hospital or even the morgue. An injured wild animal is dangerous.
I gave up having a garden, they are eating my landscaping, and getting hit in front of the house with depressing regularity. When they are hit, they are given to people on a waiting list.
I hope the anti-hunters are happy.
Because of the closeness to the street and a nearby conservation area, I cannot harvest venison, that my wife dearly loves....though a brother-in-law bow hunter has been making quiet propositions to me about dawn visits......
Despite this abundance we have new urban people moving in who put those fiberglass deer statues on their lawns..while nearby, deer graze in broad daylight on the grounds of a local college, and I surprise them when I open the front door.
It was a thrill to see them the first time, twenty years ago. Now they are like locusts.
Sure, he could have paid to CareFlight it out to the nearest veterinary trauma center, then paid for emergency care, convalesence and rehabilitation back to the nearest grassy area adjoining a highway.
The three of us got a good hold of the buck, flipped him over and freed the snagged leg. After releasing him and observing that he was having severe trouble with his bum leg, we discused catching him again, tying him up and them butchering him after our well site job was completed (November-Deer Season).
It appeared that the buck heard us very clearly 'cause he suddenly "healed" and jumped the fence as he would any other day and took off into the brush.
Just make sure he is good, you don't want to end up with a dying deer with an arrow stuck in it and yuppies caressing it.
The next car along saw what happened, and called the accident into the police on her cell phone.
Anyway, I walked back to my truck and got out my buck knife and had just dispatched the deer with a quick stick in the heart over the animal's back (the safest way to do it, by the way) when a police cruiser pulled up, lights flashing, and a young (20-something) officer got out of the car.
The officer walked up to me, and looking at me, dressed in full camo and face paint, with my hunting license pinned to my back, laughed and said "Man, you must've wanted that buck pretty bad...."
I got about 50 pounds of processed venison out of it, but it was the most expensive deer I ever killed, that's for sure... $2200 worth of vehicle damage worth...
Don't you have to age venison just like beef? At least bleed the carcass and let it hang for a while.
LOL! I got skunked one year with my Hawken, and about a week later bashed a big doe with my oldsmobile.
The joke later was "couldn't get one with my 50 so I had to use my '88'".
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